When Warner Wolf was discussing football player Adam "Pacman" Jones desire to drop the "Pacman" nickname (because of his many brushes with the law), Imus asks, "What color is he?" To which his sidekick says, "He's African-American." Then Imus said, "Well, there you go. Now we know."
While some wonderif this was another racist remark from the curmudgeonly radio personality, Imus told the NY Times, “I meant he was being picked on because he’s black." Imus added, "that Dick Gregory, a veteran comedian and activist who is black, would be a guest on his show on Tuesday, to discuss the death of George Carlin" and that he'd see what Gregory thought. The Reverend Al Sharpton said the remarks were "disturbing because it plays into stereotypes."
You can listen to the clip after the jump - if someone knows where a longer clip is, with more of the after-the-remarks discussion, let us know in comments (Imus did specifically hire two black sidekicks). And when he returned to the airwaves, Imus promised, he would "never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me.”
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Wow, Bingo, you actually shot a couple of inches. And after all that furtive pulling. Maybe you should see a urologist now...in case you "strained" an important blood vessel or something. Oh wait, urologists usually charge a hefty co-pay up front. Just ask your moms to check for you.
allie25
@ snakefist..
lol to the get aids line.
citizenerased
These crackers are making me thirsty!!!
....anyone?...anyone?
Shinobi Shaw
BINGO, what is this victim mentality that you hold? You sound like you were victimized by a white person before and you still hold this grudge.
I think you should check and analyzed yourself and see where does this victim mentality coming from before you externalized it and blame others.
All you do is feel victimize and do the Blame Game.
The average male white Yuppie is a slave like every other person alive today (of race) that is not part of the ELITE class (those billionaires).
Take issue with the ELITE (the rockerfellers, the rothchilds, The Duponts, the European Aristocracy).
The average white male is repressed with a load of issues just like any other.
The Majority of people in the US BINGO are white and guess what, the majority are probably working class and are wage slaves like their ethnic counterparts.
Instead of doing the Blame Game why don't you form a coalition to fight the ELITE class (who is NOT the average white yuppie).
Imus is an idiot, but he is not the Elite.
dadoc
Have followed the thread for the past day & held off from responding to the trolling.
But, having observed during that time, and in the interest of reducing discord on this board, I would like to start the "Let's all chip in and get Bingo an MRI (with particular attention to the Frontal Lobes) Fund". Such mentation is likely not chemical, but structural. The monomaniacal, hyperaggressive, impulse-control deficient display strongly indicates structural frontal lobe dysfunction. The speech centers appear intact, but the fixation upon the "Cr-ck-er" word are disturbing. Somewhat like the "N" word. Upon completion of the MRI I will fire up the Dremel & volunteer to perform the needed surgical correction. Haven't done Neurosurg in years, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Enjoy & lighten up.
Dadoc
Fritzdecat
Its abundantly obvious hatefull posturing does nothing to change the situation but the numbers are what they are.
What will that change in the next fifty years? Ask yourself that?
Shinobi Shaw
And we really should stop all this in-fighting among races, that's what the ELITE wants us to do (they want us insecure, divided and stupid).
We should wage a war against the Elite and not against each other.
Shinobi Shaw
#45 is dead on, 'nuff said.
sonyactivision
Dearest Bingo:
A) There are far more child molesters in your column than those "white boys". The difference is that in your world, it's always Mom or Dad, or an uncle. "White boys" tend to prey outside their families while maintaining that judeochristian ethic at home. It's a fetishistic, kinky twist. Try it sometime.
B) To be able to include "serial killer" on your resume for that gig at Monsanto, you must kill more than once, and in a discernable sequence. That takes skill and craft, something lacking in certain communities where most of the murderers are over-wrought idiots that get caught after their first kill. Losers.
C) To be an "internet porn" anything you must be hooked up to the web. How many cabrones in your 'hood are online? Yeah, we know.
In short, go fuck yourself because you dimminish your species at a time when further such dimunition was no longer thought possible.
Shinobi Shaw
A lot of idiocy being spurred today.
#43, the racism in other countries is still there (I never said there was not).
If you go to China, you will see racism towards the Japanese, South East Asians, Blacks and even their fellow Chinese (for example Hans racism towards tibetans).
In Africa there is also racists amongst the Africans themselves, racism is a sad fact of the human race.
However nowhere near in the world is there widespread minstrel shows like in the US.
And LASTLY #43 and your erroneous assumptions, I am a New Yorker, I've been living here since I was 9 and I am 26 now.
I've never even been to OHIO (that leper colony?).
I think someone is projecting!
And #47 BINGO you are nothing more then a piece of filthy trash that was scrapped from the shoe of a bum living on a drunken stupor near Sunset Park.
You are nothing but a sheep twit if you think Obama is for the people, the man (like Mc Cain) is bought by the corporations and the lobbyists. He is going to favor the ELITE and not you or the people.
Fritzdecat
Imus is a moron
I agree with that
spiritross
First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Means all of you above have to accept the good the bad and the stupid
Imus is a moron (much like the other broadcasters on WABC) who cares you don't have to like it you don't have to listen to it but you gotta suck it up because it also allows you to say what you want
Race is an imaginary social construct anyway
Culture exits
Race was a concept made up to keep people down
It does not exist
Admit it, Learn it, Live it
bxbrian
Our racism is flourishing?
Don't you go on and on about crackers?
Kids, stay in school.
antibingoramirez
shinobi, you are talking out of your ass. racism is nowhere as prevalent in europe? are you fucking kidding? russia has a serious problem with neo-nazis while serious legislation has been put into place in italy to stop immigration from african countries. you clearly have not been outside williamsburg, except for your first twenty years in your shitty town in ohio.
Shinobi Shaw
Bingo, I am Latino myself, and yet it does not take a white guy to know that you're an idiot and you reinforce stereotypes.
antibingoramirez
bingo. show us facts.
antibingoramirez
bingo must be fake, there is no way anyone could really be that delusional. btw, bingo, barack obama isn't going to do shit. he is further from you and the general black population than most of those white yuppies you hate.
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