Can we talk about Imus like adults?

And Dignan, I can honestly say I have never purchased a rap or hip-hop CD...never will.
I have never watched one minute of the Chapelle Show...never will. Not what I consider funny.

Of course, now you can tell me I'm a racist because I don't like black "entertainers."

 

I didn't say silence, I said love.
But I wouldn't meet with him. If he didn't want to know them before he cursed them, there's no reason to afterwards.

 

I've already been called a racist because I don't believe Imus should be fired.

 

Oh please. They are all over the country. I was sitting in the bar Stout in NYC watching a Jets game, the 3 guys next to me were all wall street guys and after a black player gets caught from behind one guys says,"why do the Jets have the one slow nigger". The other 2 laughed their asses off. I have sat in country clubs and heard Tiger Woods called all kinds of things. To sit here and pretend that these words and thoughts are not uttered all over our country every day millions of times is fantasy. Do I like the words? no. Do I use the words? I have and I am not proud of it. Do I use them now? No I find them terrible for many reasons. But to pretend that people have bigoted, backward views only in the deep south or in trailer parks is wrong.

 

No, you were called a racist because you said "nappy-headed" wasn't a racial insult. Try again.

 

Clearly the folks at ABC think Isaiah Washington is just too right.

 

Oooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww [Married with Children audience]

 

Well, Yabb, considering how much we have been told that the Rutrgers women should be "above this," how better to show that than to accept Imus' request for a meeting, to show him they at least are adult enough to listen to him and hear him out...right or wrong.. and maybe even accept a sincere, face-to-face apology.

I believe that is known as acting with dignity and class.

 

An equally appropriate course of conduct.

 

Yab believes they should have quashed whatever their feelings are about Don Imus and his comments. That's acting with dignity and class. No matter how hateful.

 

How did you know Shaun Cassidy was my first childhood crush?

 

Well, it's not always race-specific. That word gets used for blacks and whites. It was at my junior high growing up.