[Rhodes22-list] Don Imus

[TN Rhodey]

Guys,

For sure there is a double standard.  I will never understand why Sharpton 
and his followers are ok with the hate spewed by rappers. I also don't 
understand why more woman of color are not speaking out against rap lyrics.

The network saw that the dust wasn't going to settle quickly. They pretty 
much had to fire Imus. Imus made a hateful racist remark about a group of 
successful student athletes. This is not a good "target". If he had said 
something equally negative about the Iranian Women's Weight Lifting Team 
Sharpton and Jesse would not have cared. Shock jocks walk a fine line based 
on how much money they bring in verses potential loss of revenue. I was kind 
of surprised he wasn't fired the same day....I guess it took longer to 
crunch the numbers.

I can think of people (white ones of course) who have been fired in the past 
for public racist remarks...think Jimmy the Greek and Al Campanaris (sp?) of 
the Dogers. Thecomments were quite tame compared to "nappy headed ho" and 
todays rap lyrics. It is hard to make written comments regarding this 
subject without one sounding racist....so please note I am not agreeing with 
comments made by the "Greek",  or "Campy" I am just mentioning them for 
reference.

Wally






>From: Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net>
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>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Don Imus
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:38:37 -0500
>
>Slim,
>
>Ya just gotta laugh ......
>
>Seems like we should have been seeing picket lines outside of all the
>rappers offices for a while now, if they're going to make such a stink
>about this. Don't recall any of them being even much noticed let alone
>fired. But wait ..... could there be a (gasp) double standard here???
>
>People been calling me a dumb Swede for years. Maybe I am ..... just too
>dumb to care???
>
>I expect Imus will be able to thank all these fools for the free
>publicity later ..... after his book comes out.
>
>Rik
>
>Slim wrote:
> > What's the deal here?  Don Imus is a shock jock and he's hired to be
> > shocking and now has been fired for being... um... shocking.  He 
>referred to
> > the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" which is 
>certainly
> > racist and offensive to be sure, and I'm in no way defending that 
>rhetoric,
> > but he's supposed to be shocking, right?  No less than CBS CEO Les 
>Moonves
> > personally caved in to public outrage and fired him for doing his job.
> > Isn't this just a sticks and stones thing?  Freedom of speech?  Do shock
> > jocks now have to be PC?  Howard Stern (I'm no fan of his either) has 
>done
> > much worse.  I really don't like either Stern or Imus and I'm not sure 
>why
> > I'm writing this but it seems like a stab at freedom of speech and I 
>feel
> > bad that Imus was fired--he shouldn't have been.  I've been known to use
> > some very un-PC songs and jokes myself and it's all in the context of 
>humor
> > and entertainment.  If you don't like it, there's a Chucky Cheese right 
>down
> > the road--go there and have fun!
> >
> > Slim
> >
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