Can we talk about Imus like adults?

I just saw the clip where Stringer compared this to her other Final Four trips when her daughter was paralyzed and her husband died... Like comments from a relatively irrelevant shock jock even remotely compares to a family tragedy...

 

Scarred for life? Come on, now....

 

Hopefully, a columnist with a Johnny Sack, ripped the fuck out of her for that today.

 

Mizzou, what she was said was that this was a Final Four in which she could actually enjoy the experience and appreciate what her team had accomplished, and now it is overshadowed by the remarks.

 

To answer gingerbread's question: I hope so.

 

If you have kids, and many of you do, and someone made the remark Imus made, you'd be ready to punch his lights out. I'd really like to hear more from the parents of thise young ladies.
Whitlocks column, and I'm not a Whitlock fan, was right on the mark. Good job.
If the sponsors continue to bail out, Don Imus will be off the air. Not for long, but long enough for it to send a message that his mistake won't be made again.

 

Here's the link:

http://www.kansascity.com/159/story/66339.html

I thought it was really good, too, not that my opinion matters.

 

I loved Whitlock's column.

Stringer should be ashamed for that debacle of a news conference.

And why the fuck does Al Roker have a comment -- on anything? He is an irrelevent douche and I hope he's involved in a drunk driving accident.

 

To some degree, I think our cyncism as reporters is showing. We're used to being targeted and talked about, so we don't find insults a big deal. But I can't image being 19-20, waking up and finding out that one of the most popular radio hosts in the country called me a "nappy-headed ho." Imagine walking around on campus and people are buzzing and whispering about that. That would be beyond embarrassing and humiliating. Is that as scarring as losing a kidney? Of course not. But damaging, nonetheless.

Now as far as hip hop goes...

I find some rap music bad, tasteless and insulting.

But taking on the entertainment industry is a lot different from taking on a shock jock. I despise Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, but they have been very consistent about how they feel about gangsta rap music. They have protested. They have spoken out. A lot of other African Americans are fed up with rap lyrics, too. But when people have tried to take on the entertainment industry, it has not ended well. It does not garner headlines. It essentially does nothing. (See: the attempts to dismantle 2 Live Crew)

While it's fine to castigate rappers and black people for rap music, it is a problem larger than our community. Record labels, hip hop magazines, virtually every power broker in the hip-hop industry is white. The No. 1 selling hip hop artist of all time? A white guy (Eminem). The No. 1 consumers of hip hop? White kids.

I don't say that to blame white people, just saying that if there is really a concerted effort to take on rap lyrics, black leaders and black people can't be the only ones out there protesting and we also can't be the only ones held responsible. It can't just be considered "our problem."

But let's be honest, we all enjoy or have enjoyed off-color, politically incorrect entertainment from time to time. Only I'd like to think most of us have the sense to know when something is appropriate to say and when it is not. I find it totally illogical when people say a rap song or a comedy skit made them think certain words were OK to say. I know that if Tony Soprano calls a woman a bitch on the Sopranos that I can't just walk up to an Italian woman and call her a bitch. It's called common sense. For Imus or anyone to say that hip hop made it easier for him to say what he said, it's just letting him off the hook and giving him a ready-made excuse.

 

Yes. Because it is an old drunk going after young kids.

THAT was what was offensive about it.

 

Such a fine post till the final nine words.

 

Wishing anyone ill will like being involved in a drunk driving accident is idiotic. I find nothing wrong with Roker's comments.
Rutgers is milking this publicity but C. Vivian Stringer, someone that I have been acquainted with since her days at Cheyney State College (now University) has been nothing but class. I can see where this incident has worn her down but I admire the stance that she has taken.