Can we talk about Imus like adults?

I'm going with 'prostitute,' or maybe just 'whore.' Either works well.

 

I have a question that, perhaps, someone here can answer.

At the beginning of the news conference, Mulcahy said something to the effect that players would be available for 1-on-1s after the formal part of the news conference. Did that ever happen? I didn't see anything in stories I've read. I'd think that part would have been much more productive than the formal part, which seemed to be overorchestrated. The players, I'd think, would have been much more relaxed and expansive.

A sidebar to the main issue was how Rutgers really mangled this. I like Stringer -- I've talked to her a number of times, and she's delightful -- but to have her ramble on for a half-hour, when five minutes (or even two) would be more effective was a really bad idea. I don't agree with Mizzou that she was doing this to gain attention to her program, but I can see why someone would say that it was a bully pulpit for her.

I also didn't like how they trotted the white woman from the Jersey suburbs -- Heather Zurich? -- first. She came across as very wooden and not engaged. It was as if they thought it would be a good idea to have a person speak who didn't fit the Imus-propelled stereotype: "Look! Not all of us are nappy-headed or hos!"

I think I would have been just as effective to keep it short and to the point.

 

Do you really think Sharpton wouldn’t have talked his way onto at least one station?

The Rutgers women have every right to be hurt and pissed off, and this is a serious issue, and Sharpton’s presence doesn’t help the side he’s on, even if in this case it’s clearly the right side.

That said, all you people who say that women (especially black women) don’t have the right to be hurt and pissed at this and say whatever they hell they want about it are crazy.

 

You know, if you boys and girls keep rolling your eyes in disgust at each other, your eyes are going to fall out...

Just borrow some of these so you don't hurt yourselves in your outrage.

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Apologizing for taking a page from boom's playbook, and I've missed about 8 pages of this thread, but I've lost count of how many times J-Dub has gotten on here and pimped out Tech N9ne, his rapper guy from KC.

Here's a snippet of a Tech song, "Come Gangsta":


Come gangsta
Throw your rags in the air
And know that nobody there
Will compare to your gangsta
Sag your pants to the floor
Every woman's a bitch or a whore
When you're gangsta
Pack ya guns in the club
If they shrug and them thugs mean mug ya
Come gangsta
Is what they sayin' to me



Yep, way to stand behind what you believe in, Whitlock. Keep on working those corners.

 

...and this will be locked. Keep it on the topic and leave the childish crap out of it.

 

Everything has to be taken in the context in which it was said. Hearing the words "Nappy headed hos" come from somebody like Imus - a host of a comedy show (although i'm not sure if it's funny, i never listen to it) - you should know immediately that there was no malice behind it ... it was just comedy - bad comedy, at that. Black comics use this type of language all the time. People need to just move on. The media has made this a bigger deal than it should be.

 

No malice? I suppose there was no malice when he said the Williams sisters would be in National Geographic pictorial istead of a Playboy one b/c they were animals either.

Besides, lack of malice is NO excuse for denigrating a group of people you've never met. It just means you're a bigger idiot.

 

spnited, Jason is not trying to be the next great black voice. He is echoing the sentiments of a sector of blacks who are tired of the double standard and the b-s. The problem that maybe you didn't catch is that Jason is one of a small handful who is calling bullshit and no one else in the black community is willing to do it. It's better to be unpopular and be respected than to bend over to be loved.

There are NO official black leader or voice in this country. That's a irresponsible assertion to make toward Whitlock.

The Sun column made me smile:

Ministers who spew the same bullshit are just like those like David Duke, spnited.

I would like to know why "nappy headed ho's" are getting so much flak and not the "jiggaboo" reference. That pisses me off more than anything.

 

sc, some of the people are looking at it with blind outrage. Some of the people are looking at it with outrage tempered by a critical eye. You might just have to accept that both exist.

Nobody's stolen your feminist card.

 

Well, something's gotta be better than hos. I know there are 60-year-old women going "What is this hos they're writing about?"

 

I don't have to accept shit, shottie. I'm perfectly capable of seeing that everybody slamming the Rutgers girls for their response or saying it's not that big a deal are male. I'm not stupid and calling me a feminist isn't an insult.