I have no idea where to start this posting. There are so many things going through my head, it feels like it will explode.
The main reasons I am doing this are: (1) I can! (2) I ALWAYS have an opinion! (3) Because many of my regular readers wanted to know where I weighed in on this subject. (4) Even though I have turned to and focused on my "spiritualism" and positive energy, sometimes you just have to get off and let it fly!
If you referred to the girls Asian volleyball team as "slant eyed ho's", is that racist? Sexist, maybe, racist, NO! Most Asians do have slanted eyes! If you referred to the Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic womens gymnastic teams as "blond blue eyed ho's", is that racist? Sexist maybe, racist, NO! If you referred to a Latino girls softball team as "beans and rice eating ho's", is that racist? Sexist maybe, racist NO!
The operative statement being made in the paragraph above is, "you are what you are"! Like it or not, a significant number of blacks DO have nappy hair! Most Asians do have slanted eyes as stated above! Most Swedish, Norwegian folks have blue eyes and blond hair! And, last but not least, most Latinos, consume beans and rice as part of their regular diet! Therefore, "you are what you are" and should not take offense when someone points it out! Hey, that's life. Play the hand you were dealt and deal with it. Stop the whining!
But, not black folks in this country. Every time someone other than a black person says something that is "percieved" to be anti black and racist, the poor black folk want to get their panties in a wad. Especially, Black America's want to be leaders, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Anything to get their names in the spotlight! Especially since they BOTH are has beens and yesterdays news! Mr. Obama is todays black voice, and, the other two can't stand it for a minute. Once again, "that's life". You both had your chances and failed miserably. Please, GO AWAY!
Black folks, "wake up and smell the roses". If you can sit around and let other black folk say the same thing and worse under the guise of being a "rapper" or "comedian", yet down anyone else other than black folks saying these things, "then YOU are mentally short sighted and the problem, NOT the victim"!
As far as Don Imus goes, he is an idiot! Not so much for what he said, but, the fact that he did not have enough sense to realize what an uproar this would cause. According to a national poll of well over 20,000 people, Imus should NOT have been
fired! By a margin of 60%! Reprimanded, YES! Myself, I would have fined and suspended him and various other forms of reprimands. Fired, NO!
And as for all you so called "advertisers" that pulled your support of his shows, you will PAY. The majority in this country still support "free speech". Since YOU don't, see how it feels to be boycotted for your "lack of stones". Yes, I will publish a list of all the sponsors who pulled their ads from Imus's show.
Only in America. That's why I said on previous postings about the "indigo children" and the "crystal children", "thank God they are here and will be our future, because all these "pale yellows and yellows we have running around now, are really screwing things up for mankind"!
Hey Bobby - great post, as I have already told you. The only thing missing is that you need to post who the companies are that pulled their advertising and supported the firing of Imus. According to CNN, they are: Staples, General Motors, Sprint Nextel, GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble, PetMed Express, American Express and Bigelow Tea." Source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/13/imus.rutgers/index.html
Love ya!! Karen
Thanx for the info Karen
"What we think about and thank about is what we bring about"
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Well I've heard it all. The issue of firing aside( althought he would have been fired in any other forum) to suggest that under the quise of free speech we can offend people using blatant racist stereotypes.( there is no such word as nappy. the word is derived from the word nap, to mean fuzzy cloth. Historically the word has been used to offend black people, to suggest that course hair is bad and that straight hair is good. Another indication of white superiority) But yet all this escapes you.
I agree with you that in this great country of ours we have the right to express ourselves, Imus included. we also have the right to exclude or fire anyone who doesn't subscibe to our corporate culture and finally this notion of offending to get a laugh is no longer in vogue.
Thank you CBS for sending this message to the 20,000 clowns who agreed with Imus.
Hey Shippr, didn't know you were a pale yellow. But, sometime you do get a wrong read. But it's cool, you are still alright with me. Nap or nappy, who cares. Some black folks have that type of hair! You are what you are! Not their fault their hair is that way, and, if they want to percieve that as being a negative, so be it. Maybe they should read "The Secret" and work on attracting positive instead of negative. "The right to exclude or fire anyone who does not subscribe to our corporate culture"? That is the problem in this country, "our corporate culture" is one of the biggest pieces of bullshit ever perpetuated on humanity. It seems that you fit right in with it.
After you "FIRE" all the negative rap artist and "comedians", then, you can talk to me about "your" corporate culture. By the way, the number is closer to ten times the 20,000. CBS and their sponsors will pay the price at some point! Bank it!
You are entitled to your opinion, but not all of us agree with you.
What I will agree with is Imus did have the right to say what he did, but CBS also had the right to fire him!
It is never right to abuse the airwaves to stereotype or slander anyone. Especially when they are not in a position to readily defend themselves.
Belligerence and ignorance will never get anyone very far in this life.
Don Imus is a racist and sexist axx-hole. If he is dumb enough to say it on national media, he is dumb enough to be fired for it.
The majority of the American people are against his firing? The majority of the American people still think the WTCs fell because passenger planes flew into to them? Don't judge anything by a poll fed to you through the media. The media will show you a video of the president's head being splattered all over the trunk of a car and the cops riding behind him, and tell you don't believe your lying eyes, he was shot from behind. The media will show pictures of buildings clearly systematically being dropped by explosives and tell you they are falling because they are on fire. In fact, 7 hours later, a 48 story building, two blocks away, fell, having never been hit by anything, and the media doesn't even bother explaining that one.
The media will have you bustin' a sweat over the ignorant utterances of a racist shock jock, while not promoting discussion on keeping soldiers in combat indiscriminately longer than they agreed to be; while not identifying the dictatorial changes to our freedoms that occur every time we turn out focus to one of these contrived "interest" stories. Anna Nicole, Don Imus, Al Sharpton...who gives a fuck if in the meantime, while "we" are concerned about "baby-girl whoever", fundamental precious freedoms of ours are systematically stripped away under the guise of "protecting the country". Hell, they are offering credit cards to illegal aliens, have programs so they can get a driver's license, and supposed illegal children further compromise an already antiquated and failing education system. This is not a cry against hispanics but a cry for consistency. Illegal is illegal. My Black brothers are being incarcerated daily for selling a bag of joint, but folks that are not even suppose to be in the country are getting credit cards, public assistance and citizenship?
If you want to talk polls; how about the one's that are showing in many places over 50% of our high school students will not complete high school. Corporations routinely reneg on retirement benefits leaving retiring workers screwed and to fend for themselves.
Listen brothers and sisters, the "Matrix" is here. We don't control our money, we don't control our elections, we have no say in whether we will go to war, we have no say in how long we fight in that war as a soldier; we have a clown in the guise of "president" who maintains a shit-eating grin on his face, even when talking about death and disaster, because he knows, like his father, that they have us all chasing our tails while they bail-out buddies, make decisions that invest internationally rather nationally, and reap billions from the everyday labor of us all. Wake up folks.
There was a coup-de-tat staged five years ago. What one could expect "in America" is only now what is allowed "in America". The fucking vice-president can shoot a brother in the face while "hunting", and then turn around to tell us how long our sons should carry guns on foreign soil. Wake up!
Don Imus??? It worked once again. Our vigilance has been diverted to the mundane, while the real horrors take place under our noses, and at our expense. Wake up.
the kid
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