He called the Rutgers women's basketball team a bunch of 'nappy headed ho's.'
Despite mea culpas to Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton, NBC announced today that he has been suspended for two weeks.
He called the Rutgers women's basketball team a bunch of 'nappy headed ho's.'
Despite mea culpas to Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton, NBC announced today that he has been suspended for two weeks.
i think howard is the only one that still talks about imus:
I heard his "apology" on the air this morning...It seemed like he spent more time talking about all the black people he put on the air over the last several years than he did actually saying he was sorry.
Yeah he's about is irrelevant as you can get... but that's why he said what he did, IMO. He never knew how to walk the line that Howard is/was the master of doing. Not to mention he looks like the cryptkeeper now!
Imus, IMUSSS, dead or aliveeee (probably only RIC will get that)
Don Imus was a pioneer in the brand of radio that guys like Stern and O&A make a living on today. He's mellowed significantly in his old age, but give the man his due.
As for his current comments -- he made a joke that bombed when he stepped over the line a little. It happens to comedians and would-be funnymen all the time when, especially in the free-form that a radio program offers. I know its a shocking concept to some, but just because you say something insensitive doesn't make you per-se a bad person.
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Don Imus criticizing someone's appearance... that's rich.
Truth is, the worst part of that clip is what alot of people aren't hearing. One of Imus' underlings using a term that, in my mind, is on par with the n-word. (Starts with a "j.")
To me, the real shame is that the Rutgers ladies basketball team is coached by one of the classiest, no-nonsense women in the business, C. Vivian Stringer. Her squad may look "rough," but I can tell you this, if I had a daughter that could play ball, I'd want her to play for Coach Stringer.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
"Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." - Nora Ephron
I agree, and always have, that it's degrading and insulting to the character of black women. But it's OK for the African-American community, including black artists (comedians, rap/hip hop artists, etc.) to use such derogatory terms, even worse in some instances, to characterize black females?
It's wrong in all instances. The hypocrisy of the "leaders" of the black community is amazing in this situation IMHO. Jackson and Sharpton are as big a joke as Imus is.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
I always ask, but no one seems able to provide an answer: When was the election to appoint "Reverend's" (haha) Jackson and Sharpton as the spokesmen of the black community?
No matter how dumb any remark by the Imus' and Michael Richards' of the world might be, kissing the ass of these buffoons is the last thing they should be doing, IMO.
Until Howard arrived at NBC, Imus played records.
I don't know what the big deal about it right now is. He has been saying things like these and worse for years. He needs to go to XM and quit worrying about what everybody thinks. I can't believe he is crumbling to Jesse Jackson.
I have heard him say the exact same thing before. If it was racially motivated, it was wrong, but I'm not sure it was.
"My mission is to be the ray of hope, the guy who stands out there on that beautiful field and owns up to his mistakes and lets people know it's never completely hopeless, no matter how bad it seems at the time. I have a platform and a message, and now I go to bed at night, sober and happy, praying I can be a good messenger." -Josh Hamilton
Yup, he was a typical DJ - his 4 hour show was 3 hours of records and 1 hour of talking.
However, giving the devil his due, his one hour of talking was more "edgy" than anyone else out there at the time and he was a pioneer. Just not as big a pioneer as he'd like everyone to believe
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