Don Imus got fired from his radio and TV jobs for his ignorant comment about a women’s basketball team. Are we losing our freedom of speech or….
IMUS SO SORRY
Don Imus got fired from his radio and TV jobs for his ignorant comment about a women’s basketball team. Are we losing our freedom of speech or….
The old double standard.
Don’t you call me a nigger…you nigger!
Such action would never be taken against someone for anti-gay tirades (even the ones made in anger and hate rather than humor).
THIS WAS A MESS…THE REV. AL,
NO LESS…..HOW COULD THEY CAVE,
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT US THE TAWANA BRAWLEY LIE…WHO RUINED
THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT MAN, WHO
REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE OR PAY THE
JUDGEMENT….WHAT A WORLD…DID
IMUS SAY THE WRONG THING…SURE,
BUT TE PUNISHMENT DOES NOT FIT
THE CRIME…..
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Don Imus didn’t get fired because of what he said….He got fired because the people who paid for his show stopped paying. He got fired because he became too expensive to the bottom line.
If black comedians like Martin Lawrence for instance didn’t use the words nappy head in their comedy acts people wouldn’t even know what it means. Non-blacks only know because blacks taught us. It’s all so hypocritical.
JUST WATCH…HE’LL BE BACK…AND
GOOD FOR HIM….
IT’S TOOBAD WHATEVER HAPPEN TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH? IS THIS THE U. S. A. OR SOME FOREIGN COUNTRY?
He’s entitled to say what he wants outside of work, no matter how hateful, ignorant, or stupid it sounds.
I found it rather ironic though that during “Happy Feet” Stevie Wonder was singing “I Wish”: “…when I was a little nappy headed boy.”
Let’s see how happy Chris Rock gets with referring to white people as crackers now. I suppose that will be okay though.
WHITE people have NO business calling YOUNG BLACK GIRLS “Nappy Headed HOES”.
Freedom of speach comes with responsibility.
DUH.
Black people use the word “Nigger” and it’s not right….but it’s “okay”.
Bottom line is WHITE people can NEVER EVER EVER use racist jokes.
That’s just the way it is.
White people have done enough to kick out NATIVE INDIANS, and MEXICANS out of this “Free” country.
IMUS is way too old-he’s got enough money to shut the hell up and if he’s smart, hide until he drops dead.
Yes we have freedom of speech, but with freedom comes responsiblility
I read your comments and with only a single exception, you’re all frightfully stupid people who should be “fixed” to prevent your kind from breeding.
So, POIS – You’re saying it’s okay for other groups to make racist jokes?
Personally, I find all racist/culture jokes to be nothing more than hate hidden behind the guise of “humor”. I don’t care what color or race someone is – people who use
derogatory slang are bigots, pure and simple. And if you excuse any race from that standard then you are giving them a free pass.
Unacceptable.
would he have gotten fired if he was on satellite radio…probably not.
What the hell is a nappy head anyway?
It’s what your head looks like after you take a nap!
YES, the left is slowly taking our rights away. We should be able to say what we think,even if it’s wrong or in bad taste.
SAY what we think???
90% of people avoid confrontation, talk smack behind other peoples back, yet NEVER have the nerve to be direct-WITHOUT being abrasive.
IN reading the comments posted, American’s are simply ignorent.
NO wonder the rest of the world laugh…………yet still want to be like us (JayZ and Aaliyah to Tom Cruise is huge from Paris, Milan, to Shanghai)
WHEN you are concidered a “LEADER” discernment, and WISDOM should be used-and some thoughts are better left unsaid.
FREEDOM in this country should NOT be mocked or abused.
Bottom line-
Using RACIST, IGNORENT, JUDGEMENTAL words on air about YOUNG PEOPLE, or anyone for that matter, is unacceptable.
WILL people continue to be racist and use racial slang-EVEN as a joke?
Of course!
However, being of mixed with several different races myself, and with a very racially diverse family, I find such humor disgusting, and not productive to growing in a society as a whole.
This is a very serious situation, and completely unacceptable.
Had he been on satilite radio, with a smaller audience, I dare say he’d probably have gotten away from it.
Agree?
This man is very well known, with a TV and Radio show, formerly on a high profile network.
An ELDERLY CAUCASIAN MAN calling hard working, educated,YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICANS TEENAGERS
“Nappy Headed Hoes” is just SICK.
My reason for being so passionate is because I have delt with discrimination a little too many times, and i’m only 30.
Thanks Janet-
you are assisting us all in practicing our freedom of speech.
America is beautiful, and I’m proud, and blessed to be American, damn it.
jeez, this is just a hollywood gossip blog.
you can all be pissed off but it seems the white race always gets in trouble about what they say. i am sick and tired of it. the blacks listen to that rap music and alot of it uses the n word but when somebody calls them that they are all in a uproar and are ready to point fingers. frankly it’s getting a little old. we should all live together and respect each other and stop this racist talk.
if the stupid people stopped breeding this place would be pure HELL. i believe in FREEDOM OF SPEECH. More power to him @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
yo!
he didn’t use the n word or why is about freedom of speech? old dude has no business calling those teens nappy headed ho’s, they ain’t even nappy headed!
nappy head:think buckweat
those girls:relaxers and some had weaves!
IT IS ALL THE SAME NAPPY OR NOT THEY STILL GET MAD ABOUT SOMETHING THEY THINK THEY RULE BUT THEY DON;T AND THAT ‘S WHY THEY GET SO UPSET THEY ARE NOT EDUCATED ENOUGH EITHER. TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!!!!
You asked about freedom of speech.
Don Imus exercised his freedom of speech and was fired from his job.
Don Imus was not incarcerated nor was he murdered for his making his hateful comments.
It seems to me, Imus’ freedom of speech was not threatened.
If I walked into my job tomorrow morning and told my boss he’s a cheap, chiseling, c*ck-s*cking lowlife, do you think I’d have a job with that organization?
Freedom of speech is not the right to say whatever the hell you want at all times.
You can’t yell fire in a crowded movie theater which in turns causes a stampede that causes death.
Damn! Didn’t YOU PEOPLE take a civics class in your life?
This debate is not about freedom of speech. It is about white racists who are angry that there are repercussions for their hate speech.
Black people shouldn’t be offended by Don Imus’s comments.
Decent, thoughtful, intelligent people should be offended by his comments.
Decent, thoughtful, intelligent people of every ethnic background were offended by his comments.
And if you were a decent, thoughtful, intelligent person you would be offended by Don Imus comments too.
Everyone has the right to free speech. Imus isn’t in jail or anything. Say whatever you like but realise that you may have to pay a price.
Imus got what he deserved. I’m so tired of all this racist/gender bashing going on by “celebs” who say, “Ooops, my bad sorry. It was a joke, I didn’t mean it.” And all is expected to be forgotten and forgiven? Give me a f**g break.
People like Imus, Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, etc. can all kiss my white ass with their pathetic whining: “I said it was soorrrrry, what MORE do you people want?”
Spoiled and surrounded by “Yes” people who let them get away with anything at all times–and THEN when they find out EVERYONE else doesn’t think they are “cute” or “funny” they are SHOCKED and immediately go into “whiney” mode. “But, but, but they did it tooooo!”
They’re all a bunch of tools who should be publicly vilified for their highly offensive remarks.
Everyone who said “Freedom of speech” comes with responsibility is right. All actions come with consequences and those whiney little jerks who whine about it should just plan to STFU in the future–or just keep your disgusting little comments among the “yes” people in their lives.
YOU DON’T CALL WOMEN WHORES, OR HO’S EVER. AND, YOU DON’T CALL BLACK WOMEN NAPPY HEADS. HELLO MR. IMUS?
IT’S NOT ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH IT’S ABOUT AN OFFENSIVE OLD MAN THAT WOULD NOT STOP OFFENDING WOMEN ON A REGULAR BASIS FOR YEARS NOW, AND HIS REPUTATION WAS OF A RACIST AND SEXIST PIG. THE FACT THAT WOMEN COULD NOT TAKE IMUS’S VERBAL BATTERING ANY MORE OF WOMEN. THESE IMUS MEN THAT HE EMPLOYED ON HIS RADIO SHOW WERE CONSTANTLY NASTY AND MEAN. THAT’S WHAT GOT IMUS FIRED!
Perhaps Rush Limbaugh will be the next to go??
We can only hope.
WHO CARES WHAT CREEPY DON IMUS SAYS FIRST OF ALL. SECOND. YEAH – ILLEAGLES GO BACK TO MEXICO. YOU ARE NOT WANTED HERE. THIRD. CHRIS ROCK HAS CARTE BLANCHE TO SLAM THE WHITE MAN ANY TIME HE WANTS AND AS A MIXED RACE INDIVIDUAL IT ANNOYS ME THAT WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GEESE IS NOT FOR THE GANDER. CHRIS ROCK SHOULD BE FIRED TOO! DAMN HIPOCRYTES!
IMUS going to make millions off of this, just you watch!! Look at how Howard Stern parleyed his career on to the Sirrus Network.
The network which fired him is the one who’s going to be in a sling – who are they going to find to replace him ? It will all eventually cost them big bucks in the long run and listener ship. In the days ahead IMUS is going to no doubt Score a position with another network.
If goes to Sirrus he can say anything he likes, so long as the customer is paying to listen to him unlike being broad casted over the airwaves which any child with a cheap radio can tune into.
The censorship argument is unjust and trivial, just listen to Howard on Sirrus.
I venture to say the girls on that team have previously done their fair share of obscene words about whites. and certainly Al instigator Sharpton has. Who cares?
Though if blacks call their own this, why is it really different of IMUS calling them that “Nappy Headed Hoes”.
Nappy headed isn’t questionable, but “Hoes” is.
IMUS just lowered his IQ to the class of people who say that about their women.
So the next time you hear somebody say that word, how are you going to categorize that person ?
Are they going to be role models, must like how the vast majority of Hip-Hop musicans say this word about women. I think if I were the FCC, I’d start finding these people who are injecting this kind of crap into our society and just dragging us all down to their standard of thinking.
Put some fines on them and their attitudes will change as well… That’s why we have cops giving out tickets to speeders and drunk drivers right?
For all intent and purpose when I don’t wash my hair after a few days it does get kinda nappy (oily).
Who says using the N word is wrong but “okay” with African-Americans? My friend Debra who is African-American says “No way in any context by ANYONE”. I don’t want anyone regardless of color using that word on tv, in person, on a rap record, radio etc.EVER!!!!!!…I also don’t so-called men calling ANY women a “Ho”. Don Imus demeaned ALL women when he used that word as well. His mama should be ashamed of him.
BTW I am Hispanic, female…
“I venture to say the girls on that team have previously done their fair share of obscene words about whites.”
A very stupid observation on your part.
The Rutger’s basketball team is comprised of women from different backgroundss.
And the point is not whether Imus or anyone harbors nasty hateful feelings about people based on their own set of personal demons, the point is if you make the comment in a public forum you are going to be called out on it.
Just save the B.S. for your next klan rally, ok?
no one else wants to hear it.
the term nappy hair isn’t offensive but the context the term is used in determined why people were offended by imus’ comments.
nappy is a term used by some to describe the hair of people who have tightly coiled, curly hair.
nappy can be perceived by some as an offensive term because it is sometimes used in a withering way to indicate this texture of hair is inferior to other textures of hair.
for example his comment from sunseed777 :
“For all intent and purpose when I don’t wash my hair after a few days it does get kinda nappy (oily)”
oily hair isn’t nappy hair.
dirty hair isnt nappy hair.
your comment illustrates why the term nappy is offensive to some.
just too many ignorant people of all ethnicities, including african people, use the term nappy as a synonym for dirty and unkempt.
i hardy think don imus used the term nappy to describe the hair texture of some of the players.
some of the women on the rutger’s basketball team are not black, these women do not appear to have natutrally nappy hair.
imus used the term to indicate the women are ugly and unappealing. he used the term nappy headed with the insulting term “ho” to deepen the insult.
not all black people have nappy hair.
all african people do not have naturally nappy hair.
not all white people have straight hair.
straight hair is not a physical characteristic of white people because many asian, hispanic and polynesian people have naturally straight and curly hair.
I went into a barber, sat in a chair and asked for the African look.
I fell asleep and when I woke up I had a bone in my nose.
Get over it…whatever…
9:24 You are pretty naieve if you don’t believe EVERY ADULT has not at some point used disparaging comments towards any race at some point in their lives. All of these people acting so shocked and hurt ARE JUST AS GUILTY. So get off you pathetic “intellectual high horse” and accept there is a double standard out there – you stupid Ho.
9:24 You are pretty naieve if you don’t believe EVERY ADULT has not at some point used disparaging comments towards any race at some point in their lives. All of these people acting so shocked and hurt ARE JUST AS GUILTY. So get off you pathetic “intellectual high horse” and accept there is a double standard out there – you stupid Ho.
It’s outrageous that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have been given the power to dictate what goes out over America’s airwaves. What’s next – what’s written in our newspapers?
I don’t see them taking on the rappers or hip hoppers. Why not? Is it only offensive when a white person says it? I look for a backlash down the road.
When Al or Jesse start talking, I change the channel or station.
9:24 You are pretty naieve if you don’t believe EVERY ADULT has not at some point used disparaging comments towards any race at some point in their lives. All of these people acting so shocked and hurt ARE JUST AS GUILTY. So get off you pathetic “intellectual high horse” and accept there is a double standard out there – you stupid Ho.
ANONYMOUS 6;39 I AGREE BUT NOT THE STUPID HO COMMENT IT;S TO MUCH
THE N WORD IS IN ALOT OF RAP MUSIC AND THEIR SONGS ARE VERY NASTY JUST PICK SOME UP AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN. NO HE SHOULD’T SAY THAT KIND OF STUFF OVER THE AIR WAVES ABOUT THEIR NAPPY HAIR BUT HE DID SO HE’S PAYING FOR IT NOW SHAME SHAME
WHAT ABOUT CHRIS ROCK HE ANOTHER PERSON WHO SLAMS WHITES AND MEXICANS FIRE HIM WHAT MAKES HIM SO SPECIAL I THINK HE’S A BIG JERK AND STUPID TOO.
CHRIS ROCK IS RIGHT THERE WITH IMUS. I CAN’T STAND CHRIS ROCK AND HIS HATESPEWING ROUTINE. AND JUST BECAUSE HE SAYS SOMETHING WILL A BIG CUTE SMILE DOES NOT DEMINISH THE CONTENT. HE IS A RACIST TOO AND I REFUSE TO LISTEN OR BUY ANY OF HIS STUFF.
It’s rediculous that he got fired. I’m so tired of this double standard between blacks and whites. A word should never be ok for one person to say and not the next. I say, come on, don’t give one part of the population more power than the others. Black people say “nigger” all the time. Get a grip.
I LOVE IMUS,HE IS JUST GUILTY
OF HAVING A BIG MOUTH !
THIS MAN HAS A HEART OF GOLD
LETS NOT FORGET ALL THE GOOD HE HAS DONE FOR ALL HIS
CAUSES..FATSO SHARPTON AND
HYMIETOWN JACKSON CANT SHINE
HIS SHOES..
BRING IMUS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS
I LOVE IMUS,HE IS JUST GUILTY
OF HAVING A BIG MOUTH !
THIS MAN HAS A HEART OF GOLD
LETS NOT FORGET ALL THE GOOD HE HAS DONE FOR ALL HIS
CAUSES..FATSO SHARPTON AND
HYMIETOWN JACKSON CANT SHINE
HIS SHOES..
BRING IMUS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS
“went into a barber, sat in a chair and asked for the African look.
I fell asleep and when I woke up I had a bone in my nose.
Get over it…whatever.”= sloppy & stupid
Maybe next time your barber’s aim will be better and he will aim much lower to insert that bone.