It’s only words!
Maybe I’m a little slow on the upchuck (or whatever it is), but news takes a little while to reach this end of the internet. It’s not helped by my staunch refusal to watch the crap they’re showing on television these days. So you probably won’t find “breaking news” here. Biggies!
Anywho… about this whole Don Imus thing. I have to agree with cmccdavis, who wrote that it’s a sad day when people allow their self worth to be determined by the comments of strangers. What I think of myself as a person isn’t going to be changed one iota if some jerk in an ill-fitting cowboy hat decides to call me some meaningless (in my opinion) name.
I also stumbled upon this article which, in my not-so-humble opinion, also makes an excellent point. If Don Imus is going to be fired for using a particular word to describe a particular class of people, then “artists” (and I use that term loosely) like Ludacris, Three6Mafia, and Lil’ Wayne should be banned from the airwaves as well. I heard some dork on the national news this evening claiming it was different for the hip-hoppers because when they use phrases like that it’s “artistic expression”. In that case, it could be argues that Don Imus was exercising his constitutionally
guaranteed right to express his opinion. Don’t like that reasoning? How about this: If some black person who dresses like a vagrant can stand up in front of a crowd of people and grab his genitals while making offensive comments and it’s “Art” then why is it any less “art” for a 60
year-old white guy in a goofy-looking cowboy hat does the same thing
without grabbing himself?
I was out of the room for a small part of ABC’s report this evening, but
I’m told that one of the Rutger’s players being interviewed said straight out that if it had been a black man saying it instead of a white man, then it would have been no big deal.
Here’s an interesting side note: MSNBC Fired Imus for using the phrase
“nappy headed hos”, but Universal Pictures - who OWNS MSNBC - is working on a movie called Nappily Ever After. Guess what movie I plan on missing!
So, it’s wrong for some people to say, but perfectly fine for some other people to say? What a crazy, mixed up world you people live in!
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