Comments on: Rutgers Team Accepts Imus' Apology

Players Hope Incident Will Be "Catalyst For Change" For "Greater Ills In Our Culture"

[mgb1unc]

Hermit,

You don't "swat" people. All you need to do is ignore them.

[wallsttrdr]

This whole situation is an outrage and should not have gone as far as it has. Imus' comment was nowhere near as offensive as the jokes and comments made about other races by african-american comedians. I think that if such a minor harmless comment brings such harsh consequences, then society should be fair and make the same consequences for all. This has gone completely out of hand and since suggestions are being made to clean up radio and television, then let's begin with where the REAL racial slurs and discrimination exist. And that's with all the african-american radio and television shows. No one owes anyone anything, let's get beyond this concept and move forward. I think Imus said nothing wrong and is being singled out. The next time I hear a racist comment or joke on the radio or television, I expect a huge attempt at public humiliation towards that person as well as severe consequences such as those brought down onto Imus. This is a complete disgrace and total target not just to Imus but to all caucasions for them not having the same freedoms as other races!

[processor2]

Don Imus was a big enough man to apologize.

Will Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton be man enough to apologize to those innocent Duke boys for the false accusations and presumptions they stirred up in Durham, NC.

I won't be holding my breath.

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[processor2]

Don Imus was a big enough man to apologize.

Will Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton be man enough to apologize to those innocent Duke boys for the false accusations and presumptions they stirred up in Durham, NC.

I won't be holding my breath.

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[processor2]

Don Imus was a big enough man to apologize.

Will Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton be man enough to apologize to those innocent Duke boys for the false accusations and presumptions they stirred up in Durham, NC.

I won't be holding my breath.

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[hermit22]

mgb 1unc, "sensible thing is just to turn the channel....it really is that simple."

Yes, it is that SIMPLE and just about as senseless and meaningless. when there is a toxic stink and you can hold your nose, that doesn't help the toddlers and babies who haven't learned to hold their nose yet. they just breath the fumes in.

if the mosquito bites, SWAT it, so the next person doesn't have to contend with it.

[dblbar]

okay, okay I can't stand it any longer....speaking of America and our soldiers...although I don't necessarily agree with Don Imus's remarks, I do have a question that Ive been pondering for several days now...I really would like to see if someone can help me understand this......it is perfectly okay for the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, KS to picket the funerals of our dead soldiers, calling them everything from ***, to murderers, thank God for IED's, yada, yada, yada....all standing behind the pretense and tax-free shelter of a "church", displaying deliberate acts of traitorism against their own country and getting away with it..(needless to say the psychological damage being done to the families of the dead soldiers)...then why can't someone say "nappy headed hos"......to me, the first reference is far more damaging and serious than the second. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson also stand behind the "church" in most of their bigotry and racism as well.....this would tell me that Mr. Imus forgot to file for his church status to enable him to voice his opinion, like everyone else is allowed to do.....is this not a fair and reasonable assessment?

[mgb1unc]

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I wonder if I should cancel HBO the next time I watch Def Comedy Jam and one of the comedians tell bad jokes about white people. They always do rag on white people. Or Bill Maher slams Christians on his show.
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On second thought, I think I'll do the sensible thing and just turn the channel. I don't have to listen to it, and the same goes for rap music that totally degenrates women. I don't like the message, I'll turn it off. It really is that simple. Such a shame that others don't realize how easy that is. Instead, they'd rather stomp on free speech and regulate what everyone has to say. It's a shame people can't/won't control their own enviroment, they'd rather have others do it for them. And when the government has to step in, watch out... pandora's box is now opened. 'Tis a sad day. The press, Jesse and Al gave the Imus' comments much more publcity than they would have otherwise gotten. It's similar to the press giving those freaks at Westboro Baptist church free airtime when they report about about their hateful language and protesting soldiers' funerals. Just ignore them, we have the power to not listen, and to not pass on what fools say.

[mgb1unc]

"If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house."
-Al Sharpton

Those were the immortal words of the Rev. Al Sharpton during the Crown Heights crisis in New York City in 1991. A car driven by a Hasidic Jew had run over a black child in the Brooklyn neighborhood, prompting black-Jewish tensions that eventually spilled over into antisemitic riots. Sharpton's contribution to civic peace was statements like the above, together with such classic anti-Jewish smears as: "Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights."

In 1994, Sharpton explained black cultural superiority: "White folks were in caves while we were building empires. . . . We taught philosophy, astrology, and mathematics before Socrates and those Greek homos."

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_4494836,00.html

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=183676

[smuto]

Don Imus?
Is he good man? I do not know. May be.
But I am not comfortable to watch him.
Some times he wears sun glasses indoor.
Often and anywhere he wears cowboy hat .
Often no necktie he wears.
How he looks or what he does, any thing is freedom in United States of America.
But I do not know how American poeple look at him.
I am not American, I do not accept him in any way.

He must grow better at his age and look back what he lacks.
It is not too late for him to restant new Don Imus.

First he should remove sun glasses indoor.
Second he should wear a tie in public.

Any body deserves ine more chance.

[hermit22]

all vulgar mouthed speakers and writers in the medica, black or white, rich or poor, young or old, "smart?" or dumb, need to get sent to the POTTY MOUTH office for a good washing out of the mouth with a huge bar of discusting tasting soap to give them a clue as to what they do to add toxic pollution to the culture.

line 'em up. imus, snoop dog, minnie driver, the entire casts from "friends" and "scienfield" and all the new skuzzie "comedy" programs, even the people on the NEWS that have lost their sence of decorum and good english usage. line 'em all up and start scrubbing.

les moonves, and the rest of the media heads, need to get canned for hoarding in their millions on the backs of people subjected to the violence and vulgarity that their corporations promote on a REGULAR basis. line 'em all up, and start pruning. get those bugs and bacteria out and grow healthy produce with the regrowth.

[mgb1unc]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htm

Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson's rocky relations with American Jews.

A storm of protest erupted, and Jackson at first denied the remarks, then accused Jews of conspiring to defeat him. The Nation of Islam's radical leader Louis Farrakhan, an aggressive anti-Semite and old Jackson ally, made a difficult situation worse by threatening Coleman in a radio broadcast and issuing a public warning to Jews, made in Jackson's presence: "If you harm this brother [Jackson], it will be the last one you harm."

[hoipolloi2]

I am tired of hearing degrading comments about women and people of color. It is even more insulting when people defend these comments by saying "Oh come on, he was just joking". There isn't anything funny about the phrase Mr. Imus used in reference to Rutgers basketball team.
It is not amusing. It was an insult and totally unacceptable.

All of you racists out there will have to get your kicks somewhere else.

I can't believe the outrage on this comment board.
You claim to be defending free speech !
Free speech to hurl racist epithets ?
To make misogynist comments and chuckle afterwards?
Give me a break.

I don't care who makes the comments.
It is crass, crude, and disrespectful.

[grannyweber2]

I am upset that the 3 men discussing this morning made excuses for the hip hop lyrics, as disgusting and degrading as they are, but yet held Imus to a higher standard. They are doing the same thing, making money off their lyrics. I'm fed up with the double standards this world promotes. We have freedom of expression and speech yet what is freedom really? The painting of Jesus Christ in urine! Does that outrage anyone you bet it does, it outrages me to take the one in whom I devoted my life to and degrade Him in that way, yet that was called freedom of expression! TV shows every crude lifestyle and talks with such vulgarity and get by with it. Blacks who run whites down are not seen as racist. These are some double standards we live with in this country. Whoever screams the loudest seems to get what they want. Does it not surprise us that we are a nation of spoiled self-centered people. When are we going to learn that we are the ones creating all of this because we have lost our value system. So who's values win, whoever the airtime seems to push and no one seems to stop them. Since we have taken the value system that God gave us out of the picture and are trying to replace it with MODERN day standards we will continue to see people acting and talking in disrespect to others. Then when we get really fed up the government will be only too willing to make more laws to stifle our freedoms.

[pared1]

Imus is a shock jock. He's made a lot of comments. What I want to know is why this comment after so many years? Sharpton needed some media time, that's why.

Nice Rice raises her voice. That nappy heaed ho!

[hoipolloi2]

Can it not be that this arrogant "n*****"-spouting b****** (Google "60 Minutes" and "Imus," and learn something), who's had such great fun with Amos-n'-Andy-quality "black" impersonations and simian references (such as Clarence Page decried right to Imus' face), just LOVES demeaning black people?

Why do you Imus supporters insist he has only made one comment?

[hoipolloi2]

It's obvious You don't know Imus?

In 1997, Imus carelessly told a 60 Minutes staffer off-mike that Bernard McGuirk, his program producer, was tapped to do "n***** jokes." Mike Wallace exposed this incriminating usage in his 60 Minutes profile. Trapped in a Mark Fuhrman moment, what did Imus do? He lied, that is, he denied the staffer's word. When Wallace redoubtably called Imus' bluff on camera, Imus partially relented, insisting that his remark was off the record but nonetheless failing to apologize.

Mr. Imus has a history of making derogatory comments.

[grannyweber2]

I am upset that the 3 men discussing this morning made excuses for the hip hop lyrics, as disgusting and degrading as they are, but yet held Imus to a higher standard. They are doing the same thing, making money off their lyrics. I'm fed up with the double standards this world promotes. We have freedom of expression and speech yet what is freedom really? The painting of Jesus Christ in urine! Does that outrage anyone you bet it does, it outrages me to take the one in whom I devoted my life to and degrade Him in that way, yet that was called freedom of expression! TV shows every crude lifestyle and talks with such vulgarity and get by with it. Blacks who run whites down are not seen as racist. These are some double standards we live with in this country. Whoever screams the loudest seems to get what they want. Does it not surprise us that we are a nation of spoiled self-centered people. When are we going to learn that we are the ones creating all of this because we have lost our value system. So who's values win, whoever the airtime seems to push and no one seems to stop them. Since we have taken the value system that God gave us out of the picture and are trying to replace it with MODERN day standards we will continue to see people acting and talking in disrespect to others. Then when we get really fed up the government will be only too willing to make more laws to stifle our freedoms.

[mgb1unc]

I'm out here on the East Coast in Charlotte, NC. I agree that what Imus said was tacky and offensive, but it certainly is not the worst I've ever heard. The amount of publicity it has gotten is utterly amazing. To end his career over this, for which he has apologized numerous times, is a travesty. It is ironic that it was two preachers, Jackson and Sharpton, who led the charge for his firing... where's the forgiveness? I've been shocked by all this. The path that this type of censorship takes us down is very scary and people should be careful what they wish for. We will end up in a society where "free" speech has been totally sanitized, and nobody's feelings are allowed to be hurt. Of course, in this case, the Rutgers basketball team wouldn't have even known what he had said had some not made such a big deal about it... they are the ones shoved it in the girls' faces. I hear the talking heads saying "America" has spoken, ***. In every poll I've seen, a vast majority don't think Imus should've been fired.
Of all the things in the world to be worried about and upset about, a bad comment from a shock jock should be a very low priority. I am truly amazed it has come to this. I wonder if I should cancel HBO the next time I watch Def Comedy Jam and one of the comedians tell bad jokes about white people. Or Bill Maher slams christians on his show.
My feelings may get hurt, maybe I should protest.
Help me Jesse, help me Al. Make it all better.

[mdc76082]

Only losers support CBS, CBSNews.com, BET, MSNBC, NBC, etc., and anything it is affiliated with. Your constitutional rights are slowly being withered away by every splinter wannabe group in this country. Go ahead. Let it happen. Al Sharpton and other "black" cronies pound FEAR into good, God-fearing, trusting men & women no differently than the terrorists our boys & girls are fighting. The Al Sharptons just do it with lies, hatered, deception, and threats in a non-violent way. Enjoy your country. Pretty soon, the Al Sharpton's will be pulling the strings. They've already started and most sit back and do nothing. Might as well let AQ and OBL in the country with open arms.