Can we talk about Imus like adults?

No--they are teaching them the power of saying 'Screw you, you want to talk shit about me, you'll answer for it.'

On the one hand you want African-Americans in general to stand up and say 'No more!'....but you want these specific African-Americans to sit down and just be ladies?

 

Damn, PHINJ, missed that Loopy drivel this morning.


Oh, and nice post, 21.

 

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll squeak by.

 

Thanks, and thanks for the hit-and-run.

 

Exactly. Apparently, you can't like 50 Cent or Snoop Dogg or Young Jeezy and still make a point.

Come to think of it, Jason, what's in your iPod these days?

 

First and foremost, the African American community doesn't have a "designated leader", It's not a team. Jackson, Sharpton, those guys have agendas and the media gives them air time.
I'm tired of the same people being quoted all of the time. It's time for the media to go after real people. That's why I wanted to hear from the parents. I'd love to hear their take.

 

yeah. who comes up with that "designated speaker" bullshit? I remember when Kanye West said that shit about president Bush. I didn't think he was wrong, but don't understand how he became one of those "designated speakers."

 

Now, here's what I don't get.

I've got to think that a young woman like Essence Carson has enough self-pride, enough self-awareness to know that any reference to her as a "nappy-headed ho" is, in and of itself, patently ridiculous. It's a throwaway line. She's above it.

In fact, I'll go as far as to say that pretty much the entire Rutgers women's roster should feel that way. These are some of the good kids in our society, young women who have made themselves successful, some coming out of less-than-ideal backgrounds, some not.

Now, what's the ultimate problem with Imus' comment? That he "injured" these women? Well, I'm saying these women are ABOVE that sort of injury.

That's not to say that SOME dialogue about this was not a good thing. But I really don't think that your typical Rutgers' women's player is walking around campus today trying to look behind every pair of eyes upon them, wondering if that person REALLY thinks they're what Imus said they were.

 

I wonder what the reaction would have been if Imus and friends and just called the team a bunch of scary bull dykes? Would there even had been a suspension or any outcry?

 

Yes. If my daughter was on that team and that fucker called them that, I'd be in Astoria faster than Grant went through Richmond.

 

I suppose one becomes a "designated speaker" by actually having the desire to get up and speak. It's a free country (for the most part); anyone who wishes to speak on an issue publicly may do so. The media can only report on those who do, and Kanye West was one of them. Ditto Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al.