Imus is no longer on TV

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\ufffdt listen or watch Imus\ufffd 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\ufffds cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they\ufffdre suckers for pursuing education and that they\ufffdre selling out their race if they do?

When Imus does any of that, call me and I\ufffdll get upset. Until then, he is what he is \ufffd a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you\ufffdre not looking to be made a victim.

No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There\ufffds no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

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I was a fan of Jesse Jackson in 1984 when he gave what I thought was one of the best political speeches I'd ever heard. I am no fan of him anymore after watching him on CNN last night. The Gen-Xer's show (Cooper? Anderson Cooper, perhaps?) asked Jackson if he thought he ought to apologize to the Duke Lacrosse team players whom he had previously called rapists. Jackson said, "No." So, if you're playing along at home, according to Jackson if you tongue-in-cheek quote some rapper as a sophomoric joke when describing college athletes, you need to be fired. If you go on teevee and radio and call some college athletes rapists, you don't need to be fired, you don't even need to apologize.

That's obscene.

Post #281,495 by bepatient 4/12/07 6:31:45 AM Reply	Imus is no longer on TV [link\|http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/11/imus.rutgers/index.html\|http://www.cnn.com/2...utgers/index.html] Radio show decision still pending from CBS. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
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Post #281,568 by tuberculosis 4/12/07 3:45:36 PM Reply	Who watched? On the west coast it is on from like 3:00 am to 6:00. Only extreme insomnia would get me to tune in - and then only because all his competition is paid programming. We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard. H.L. Mencken, 1914
Post #281,581 by Yendor 4/12/07 5:05:41 PM Reply	It's over He's been canned by CBS (which produced his radio show) as well: [link\|http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/12/imus.rutgers/index.html\|http://www.cnn.com/2...utgers/index.html] [link\|http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story?id=2835321\|http://sports.espn.g.../story?id=2835321] -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #281,696 by lincoln 4/13/07 10:57:21 AM Reply	Here's another viewpoint 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\ufffdt listen or watch Imus\ufffd 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\ufffds cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they\ufffdre suckers for pursuing education and that they\ufffdre selling out their race if they do? When Imus does any of that, call me and I\ufffdll get upset. Until then, he is what he is \ufffd a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you\ufffdre not looking to be made a victim. No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There\ufffds no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out. [link\|http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html\|http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html] lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *Citizen* of the United States. [link\|mailto:golf_lover44@yahoo.com\|contact me]
Post #281,699 by bepatient 4/13/07 11:11:49 AM Reply	Dead on. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #281,735 by mmoffitt 4/13/07 3:38:37 PM Reply	Jesse Jackson showed his true colors, unfortunately. I was a fan of Jesse Jackson in 1984 when he gave what I thought was one of the best political speeches I'd ever heard. I am no fan of him anymore after watching him on CNN last night. The Gen-Xer's show (Cooper? Anderson Cooper, perhaps?) asked Jackson if he thought he ought to apologize to the Duke Lacrosse team players whom he had previously called rapists. Jackson said, "No." So, if you're playing along at home, according to Jackson if you tongue-in-cheek quote some rapper as a sophomoric joke when describing college athletes, you need to be fired. If you go on teevee and radio and call some college athletes rapists, you don't need to be fired, you don't even need to apologize. That's obscene. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

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