#67.

wipe the drool from your lips with the hood in your granddaddy's closet.

Fire a man for doing his job? Yup. That'll solve all your self-inflicted problems. Stop making Imus a scapegoat for your own shortcomings. Stop giving the narrow minded whites (don't label all of us as racists, because not ALL of us are racist anymore than not ALL blacks are either) a reason to be 'racist' by perpetuating your own stereotypes. And, yes, there is a DIRECT parallel to the quoted "comments" made by Jackson and Sharpton over the years. Two of the biggest self serving egotistical media hounds EVER.

Poor ol'Imus simply confused Rutgers with Rikers!

What Imus should have said Rutgers was lucky to get as far as they did. They are not that good of a team and Stringer is a horrible coach. No racial overture and tells the truth

Hey, one of those nappyheaded hoes is a white biatch.

Can we start to use the word "imus" as an way to describe a boneheaded move?

"Man, he pulled an imus at the meeting today. What a dumbass move.

Google santorum. As in Rick.

Can we start to use the word "imus" as an way to describe a boneheaded move?

"Man, he pulled an imus at the meeting today. What a dumbass move.

Google santorum. As in Rick.

If only you practice what you preach.

Have you tried walking in the shoes of a black man?

no 'moore fallout', i know this country's history. but i live in the reality of today. i deal with racism in my face EVERY DAY. that is the reality of TODAY. you only create deeper problems by treating people as nothing but black or white. you see, i'm an individual, not a group and presumptuous folks such as yourself can't seem to realize that hate is equal and experience is different for everyone regardless of what race has more governmental power or who designed this country.

race baiter? moi?

oh say can you see? tell me where was I race baiting?

unless you fall for it, then you're the real racist.

You had your way for hundreds of years. You had the law in your pocket and yet you still whine and spin the victim excuse.

And, what's this about your story on WV? I didn't see it on the news and that's what you're going to bitch about. Why did you even seek that story out?

well, how about all the black children missing that gets no press? not only no press but no action.

Ugh, indeed. indeed.

I say with all my heart, which you don't have as it's black, dead and cold, I hope in my lifetime we will see REAL change.

Buddha be with you.

i'm listening. what's that message, squidfly? apparently you think i need to do more to help victims such as yourself. what are your demands? i mean, besides blaming the white race for all the hate and violence in the hip hop community, what's the ransom for that civilization?

again with the president's cabinet?! they are elected by everyone and, around here, equally despised by all races. but every time an argument gets difficult for you, you resort to distractions. "forget the violence in front of you, look what those evil white guys are doing!" and you don't see condi right there with them? she represents you just as much as cheney represents me. and vice versa.

Ugh, shut up already Moore Fallout and the other race baiters. Imus is an a**hole, strait-up, and he made an a**hole comment. I'm sure if the girls of Wheeling West Virginia Community College were playing a group of white girls he found more attractive, he would have called them "bucked-tooth cracker hookers" or something like that. In either case, the guy's a total jerk and should get fired.

The race-baiters casting this as a race thing (rather than an a**hole thing) need to get together with their white counterparts (currently up in arms over Atlantic Yards - they'll be back to "The Man" soon) and create a super-race of victims.

[51] Posted by: gladfly | April 11, 2007 4:53 PM

Get the chip off your shoulder, it'll help with the "LIMP" in your character.

[50] Posted by: Michael Hunt | April 11, 2007 4:48 PM

Errrr....touchy touchy. Ethnic white folks, bitter and angry that the American Dream didn't come true for them, so your live a life of misdirected rage...so sad, and it's all Hip Hop's fault. Yes the Hip Hop community sent the troops to Iraq, my you guy's are so paper thin. Look get off your asses and take some responsibility instead of Blaming young, talented Black artists, from the Hip Hop and Rap comunity, who are showing you how to become more civilized, I mean they're just giving you a relfection of your own short comings as White Euro Ethnics. Listen to the "MESSAGE"

Michael you obviously have some deep issues with Black people maybe you feel threatened? I wish you well.

MSNBC decides not to carry his show. More advertisers pulling out.

Hopefully this will be the last time We as Americans will ever hurt another American again.

The Thousands Years is Over.

anta, the U.S. is black and white, look at it's laws, it's inception. it's people. The government pandered to ONE RACE for Centuries and centuries since it's inception and one civil war.

We still have a LONG LONG way to go. Learn your history.

These poor girls. They're teenagers, and in their moment of totally unexpected triumph, one which they worked so hard for, then some jerkweed on a radio show makes it about him.

He should be fired.

And, you know, Imus was the one who went on Sharpton's show. This whole Sharpton thing is a red herring because Imus would rather people talk about Sharpton than him.

Sorry, but Imus doesn't get to make HIS racist outburst all about Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton didn't make Imus do it--Imus made Imus do it. And Gwen Ifill and a thousand people show us it's not the first time Imus has done it.

Seriously, if I called someone that at work, I would NOT be able to say "oh, but the murderers in Darfur are so much worse! Until we fix that, you can't fire me!" I'd be fired. As Imus should be.

#32 "Ummmm maybe because it's insane to try to compare the institutionalized racism blacks face every single day from the "comments about a white person" you refer to.

I'm sorry, but no one in America feels bad because you're white, and whatever sort of prejudice you may deal with is NOTHING compared to what minorities face regularly ALL THE TIME."

you are racist for trivializng the individual struggles of others based purely on skin color. try walking in the shoes of a white man in a predominantly black neighborhood. taunts, threats, humiliation and a few assaults and muggings thrown in for good measure. the world is not black and white, we are individuals and our govt and media should not be pandering to anyone based on race.

Sharpton is a complete idiot.

rap music on so many levels is pure garbage.

Kids listen to it because they want to be "tough" "gangsta"

yo, sqidfly: "Hip-Hop is just entertainment"? So is Imus in the Morning. And nobody is "jealous" about a culture of unoriginal, zombies who live like slaves to a tired ass culture that glorifies ignorance, misogyny, homophobia, and materialism. Tired, tired, tired....

Squidfly 4:31PM—

I guess you are one of the uneducated people out there keeping it real; obviously you have no reading comprehension skills. Whitlock is saying that Sharpton & Jackson never address/turn the other cheek to the real problems in the black community.

In this situation, like always, Sharpton & Jackson are complete idiots & hypocrites.

You are right about one thing, hip hop IS entertainment. Unfortunately, too many stupid people out there use it as a guide as how to live their lives.

Full text of Jason Whitlock column:

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.

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’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.