Comments on: How Don Imus’ Firing Can Help Your Career

By: TeamTutorials

TeamTutorials — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:07:13 +0000

I think they canned him because he lost his sponsors.

By: Brie

Brie — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:27:32 +0000

Your response epitomizes the most unconstructive response of white americaand you put the reasonable majority of whites to shame. If you ask Imus he will tell you he ment WHORE. Nappy had nothing to do with napkins just like Apple has nothing to do with Appitite. I hate to break it to you, but tHey just start with the same three letters. Thats the end of their etymological connection. LIke I said before. Conflating a racial charactaristic with negativity is racist. Please let that be the take home lesson. Just liket o call things ‘gay’ because they are ‘bad’ is wrong–as in, that ugly shirt is so gay, it is wrong to say those girls are ugly, they nappy and whores.

By: Brie

Brie — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:21:49 +0000

I am a 21 year old black female. I do not say the N word. I do not refer to women as bitches or hoes and it is GROSSLY irresponsible for you or anyone else to think they can do so simply becuase some ingnorant rap artist fool thinks he can. Grow brain Unlucky and stop trying to look for excuses to legitimize your racism. Since when did society judge its moral development on the actions of rappers? Oh yea, when it became a convienient tool to get a racist out of a jam.

Racism is not just a black thing, but it affects minority groups more for obvious resons. THe power structure in america is such that the thoughts and actions of the white ruling class have dispropotionate effects. It is so fresturating to have to speak these obvious truths in blogs such as these but since the unknowlegeale masses refuse to read a simple introductory volume to american racial dynamics or, i dunno,open their eyes and view the country they live in, I feel compelled to have to do this. Please try to locate the source of your desire to excuse Imus. Is it becuase you fear the same will happen to you? No one thinks he is a terrible human being on the basis of this comment alone. Every single person is racially prejudiced ins ome way, and at times it slips out. But for him to be so basically irresponsible is inexcusable and it is an excellent example for the rest of us to critically evaluate the things we think and say. Please excuse my typos. Im late for class.

By: Unlucky

Unlucky — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:50:19 +0000

First of all as for Imus getting fired? Does he still get the money because of the contract? Plus he’ll get book deals and probably a movie out of all this. In fact, I bet more people know him after this then ever knew him before.
With that said, let me go on to say this…Racism is not just a white thing. Jesse Jackson actually admitted to spitting in white people’s food when he worked in South Carolina. Is this not a racist thing? I’m not saying any kind of racism is good, it’s not…but we need to make it either bad or acceptable across the board. It you’re black don’t call yourself the N word, if your a woman don’t call yourself the B word, when rappers “sing” the stuff they do, and call their “brothers & sisters” what they do in those songs, then why do they get so angry when a white person says it? If you want respect you need to be respectable. It’s like if you go to church and on Monday you’re at work cussing one of your employees and a church member comes in and sees it, he’ll say well that man is no Christian. You have be who you are, and if you’re black and calling yourself the N word then guess what, others will too. And don’t give me that, we’ll we’re just singing the truth. Peddle that BS somewhere else, you do it to shock the world, and have these young people buy it up because they want to shock their parents or because they think it’s something big to do, like smoking use to be. (if there was a woman out here calling me a b*tch in a song, I don’t think i’d buy it).
You have to respect yourself before others will repect you.
As for Sharpton and Jackson, the do need to get a life, but they are just after the Publicity, they don’t care about rights and stuff. Don’t let them fool you into believing they do. If it wasn’t something to keep them in the spotlight, they’d have nothing to do with it.

By: Scot Smith

Scot Smith — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:33:00 +0000

I think the best part was during his apology when he was speaking to a woman on the phone and said, “Now you’re just jiving out on me!”

Yeah, that was the best part of all of this. After he messed up he made it clear that he didn’t care.

– Scot

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:24:14 +0000

Yes, Imus should have been fired! He went way too far even if he didn’t know it.

If Imus had called the wives of nbc or cbs executives Ho’s, it would NOT have taken two weeks to fire him.

Of course, an apology would have been expected, but he still would not have a job!

I am glad the nation became enraged, that type of language is totally inappropriate and has no place on the airwaves or the workplace.

Furthermore, I do not think we should be defining our standards by Rappers; who typically come from troubled communities and are expressing current conditions.

I do think we should take them to task, including the executives who sign off on that type of music and the radio stations that decide to play denigrating music.

However, we can’t use that excuse to keep Imus on the air…he should have known better and had a history of insulting people, particularly minorities.

That should be unacceptable!

By: bert dansereau

bert dansereau — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:20:44 +0000

and by the way Sharpton and Jackson the ambulance chasers of the discrimination business GET A ——- LIFE YOU BLOODSUCKING ASSHoles

By: bert dansereau

bert dansereau — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:09:21 +0000

good riddance, he should take Howard Stern, Nancy Grace, Glen Beck and all these other microphone morons with him. Its a sad commentary that these windbags have an audience to begin with. Give me Daily Show or Steven Colbert anytime.

By: girasolnega

girasolnega — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:55:34 +0000

I completely agree with the statements made by Brie and Brian, Imus’ firing was not based solely on this single racist comment-it was just the final straw of inappropriateness. Everyone here is crying about free speech, well that never existed in this country…or perhaps very limited (I am simply describing the situation, not necesarily agreeing). And goddamn that phrase ‘politically correct’ what about ethical and moral correctness. It is alright to think negative things about another race, but identifying the source of the negativity and expressing your views constructively can actually have benefits. Historically what white men said, thought and did toward blacks and other people of color had real repercussions for those demographics. Institutional racism is alive and doing well in the U.S. (check Brian’s above comment about modern day segregation), and is evident by the many negative and derogatory remarks about hip hop. Hip hop is much more than what is portrayed by the mass media. Images of hip hop purported through major media sources purposely reflect a certain version of hip hop that is misogynistic, violent and negative in general. But there is so much hip hop that is uplifting, powerful and positive that is not on television and major radio stations. We must think critically of the images, and content that is spread through the media. Who has access to and control these sources of production….white men…this is related to my earlier comment about free speech. If wealthy white men control our media sources, what exactly is free about what is being broadcasted?

By: miqq

miqq — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:36:28 +0000

The english language with its double, triple, multiple meanings can obviously jerk people’s emotions big time… misunderstood rhetoric can even cause wars. Because Don Imus made a mis-statement in a parochial environment doesn’t mean that the rest of the world knows or cares what was said. The word “ho” according to the dictionary means a call for attention…ho ho ho ..Santa uses it all the time at Christmas. I guess in a certain ethnic setting it can be construed to mean “streetwalker”…who knows…I certainly don’t. Then we have nappy-headed…a napkin or kerchief used to keep sweat or hair out of ones eyes…workers and bikers do it all the time..and a hoe is an implement used to help dig soil for gardens for example. So, from my perspective Imus could have been paying the basketball team a compliment…in other words …a very diligent hard working group of athletes…ready to” dig in there” with a great deal of effort.This narrative may seem simplistic and an attempt to excuse a supposedly inappropriate comment, however, it is another point of view and at times we all have to see out of the box.