Don Imus and Your First Amendment Rights

[nysulli]

Imus has been on the radio for 40+ years, i think he'll just wander off into the sunset, but its rather unfortunate that such a great career in radio had to end this way, although, it probably is more fitting then him continuing on till his show finally bombed, at least he's going out like a shock jock should

but i'm ultimately glad he said what he did, its causing debates like this all over the place, and i feel that people are beginning to take a second look at their freedoms, and reevaluating where they stand on a key aspect at the center of what makes this country great

[Cobbcustomz]

Originally Posted by intern8tion9l

i had thought this country had more to worry about than a stupid comment a radio host said, but i guess i was wrong. its all you hear about now. al sharpten and jessie jackson are definately a waste of human life. and as for those duke guys, when they were found innocent did those dirtbag revs do anything to apologize for ruining them? i don't think so

Nope they wont apologize. Supposedly on the 13th Sharpton said he would not issue a public apology nor retract anything he said in this matter. Instead of doing the right thing they will reward the girl for lying

Sunday, April 16, 2006
Rev. Jesse Jackson steps into the Duke lacrosse spotlight
The Associated Press reports:

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday his Rainbow/Push Coalition will pay the college tuition of a woman who told police she was raped by members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team while working as a stripper -- no matter the outcome of the case.

"I can't wait ... to talk with her and have prayer with her, because our organization is committed, when she's physically and emotionally able ... to provide for her the scholarship money to finish school so she will never ... again have to stoop that low to survive," he said from Chicago in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

When asked, the civil rights leader also said his group will pay for the woman's tuition even if her report proves false. …

[intern8tion9l]

f#$%ing scumbags

[Khyron]

Originally Posted by mikecentola

Yeah I'm pretty sure Don Imus isn't hurting either. His salary was 10 million per year

I think thats what Stern pays in taxes

[nysulli]

i saw al sharpton on chris hanson's show last night and i almost puked at the blatant lies i heard spewed from his mouth

great interviewer though, very first question "if your going after Imus for his comments, what about x rapper for this lyric, DMX for this, 50 cent for that, Ludacris for this..., just naming all these rappers and the specific lyrics demeaning black women.

just great because Al tried to say well i am fighting those, but no ones pushed me to get out and say stuff about it basically, just really revealed what a race-baiting bigot Al sharpton really is, and hansen called him out on it, you go after the white people, but you don't say shit when its someone in your own community

[GranMassaX]

Don't even get me started on the Duke case.... I lost the little respect I did have for Sharpton and Jackson after that.

I thought the comment was more sexist then racist. I mean I think "hoes" is much worse than being called "nappy". But "nappy" is a black-term, and it was used it in a negative way by a white man... so that instently makes it a racial problem. What if he left out the "nappy headed" part and just called them "hoes"? I bet nothing. I use to tell one of my friends at RPI that his hair was nappy all the time... i guess I'm a racist too.

[mikecentola]

My mom sent me this:

Imus isn’t the real bad guy

Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.

By JASON WHITLOCK - Columnist

Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.
You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.
You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.
Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
The bigots win again.
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.
It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.
I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.
But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.
I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.
Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.
But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.
In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?
I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?
When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.

[WhtRice]

im tired of hearing about this shit. its gayyyy

[xceebeex]

Anybody see this yet? That takes some guts!

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