Author Topic: Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?  (Read 3928 times)

Offline Black Sheep

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 543
      • http://www.myspace.com/empire21productions
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« on: April 09, 2007, 01:49:58 PM »
Since last Wednesday's broadcast, He's taken alot of heat from the media, well mostly the African American media and equal rights groups for his 'Nappy headed ho's' comment against the Rutgers all black women basketball team.

I'd like to know what part of his statement is racial? I know it's a demeaning and derrogatory statement against any woman to say that. And being in the broadcasting business, he should have a bit more sense before he opens his mouth.

But where did that phrase birth itself? Perhaps from the same community that is now condemning it? I don't know but that seems likely. The same eubonics and mindset where it's absolutely OK to call your brother or sister in skin anything you want, but let someone else of color do it and it's automatically offensive...

And Al Sharpton is all over this too now - he has nothing better to do than to promote himself - :rolleyes:

Offline lasersailor184

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 8938
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2007, 02:03:01 PM »
While the situation itself has blown up larger then the size of the problem (if there really is one), I've always suspected that Don Imus was borderline mentally retarded.
Punishr - N.D.M. Back in the air.
8.) Lasersailor 73 "Will lead the impending revolution from his keyboard"

Offline Black Sheep

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 543
      • http://www.myspace.com/empire21productions
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2007, 02:06:13 PM »
Yeah he definitely is borderline.

Offline Mickey1992

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3362
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2007, 02:20:21 PM »
I think he has gone beyond pissing off a race, I think he has pissed off all female athletes in general.  Calling the game "the jigaboos versus the wannabes" I think is what will get him fired.  If women started boycotting MSNBC/NBC/GE in mass then he would be gone yesterday.

Offline Hap

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3908
Re: Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2007, 02:22:12 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Black Sheep
I'd like to know what part of his statement is racial?


Ask someone who's up on it and who is angry.

As far as Don Imus, I don't know what will happen to him.

Offline Airscrew

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 4808
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2007, 02:29:14 PM »
how bout, I dont know, and I dont care ;)

Offline Xargos

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 4281
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2007, 02:47:13 PM »
Can you imagine the offspring if him and Rosie hooked up?
Jeffery R."Xargos" Ward

"At least I have chicken." 
Member DFC

Offline midnight Target

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 15114
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2007, 02:53:11 PM »
"Nappy headed" refers specifically to black people's kinky hair that has not been cared for properly. Ho's is "urban" slang for potatos.

But you really didn't want an explaination did you?

Offline john9001

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 9453
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2007, 03:09:18 PM »
is Rutgers a all black school, if not where are the white wimmen ball players, i call discrimination against whitey.

boycott, boycott, freedom marches.

and yes, imus is a jerk.
« Last Edit: April 09, 2007, 03:16:52 PM by john9001 »

Offline VOR

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2313
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2007, 03:14:09 PM »
You mean I can't refer to myself as nappy headed when I have a bad hair day? That's exclusionary and racist. :mad:

Offline Hap

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3908
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2007, 03:52:54 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
But you really didn't want an explaination did you?


Bingo.

Ill will and pandering deserves a rap on the knuckles.
« Last Edit: April 09, 2007, 03:56:18 PM by Hap »

Offline Halo

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3222
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2007, 03:58:32 PM »
Shock jocks thrive on fringe statements that gain them notoriety, more viewers, and more pay.  Most are too clever to cross into territory that gets them infamy, fewer viewers, and less pay.

I'd think that calling a woman's basketball team a bunch of potatos would cross that line.  But Imus probably will survive.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Seneca, 1st century AD, et al)
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty. (Anne Herbert, 1982, Sausalito, CA)
Paramedic to Perkaholics Anonymous

Offline Yknurd

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1248
      • Satan Is Cool...Tell Your Friends
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2007, 04:10:20 PM »
Forget Imus.

When is Sharpton going to realize he looks like a nappy headed ho?
Drunky | SubGenius
Fat Drunk Bastards
B.A.A.H. - Black Association of Aces High

storch

  • Guest
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2007, 04:35:24 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Airscrew
how bout, I dont know, and I dont care ;)
so in your opinion which is worse, ignorance or apathy?  :D

Offline nirvana

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5640
Whats gonna happen to Don Imus?
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2007, 04:37:58 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Yknurd
Forget Imus.

When is Sharpton going to realize he looks like a nappy headed ho?


HA!
Who are you to wave your finger?