Everyone’s Weighing in on Don “Nappy-Headed Ho” Imus
It looks like Don Imus is getting a two-week suspension (or, in corporate speak, an “unprecedented vacation”) for calling the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team a bunch of “nappy-headed ho’s.”
NBC is self-reporting, releasing a story that Imus will be taken off the air for those two weeks as well. No more Imus in the morning for those of you who can’t wake up without a cup of Imus.
Barack Obama, who will be asked about everything involving black people from now until he dies, said this:
“The comments of Don Imus were divisive, hurtful and offensive to Americans of all backgrounds,” said the senator from Illinois. “With a public platform, comes a trust. As far as I’m concerned, he violated that trust.”
Al Sharpton Weighs In
While you can blame Imus for the comments (and, really, who’s going to get suspended for something you call Rutgers? What a waste of a suspension), he’s definitely taking his lumps this week for what he did. He appeared on Al Sharpton’s show, which I think is just Al Sharpton shouting at people from his room window. You can hear him on the East Coast from 10 a.m. until he wears himself out and goes downstairs for lunch.
Well, okay, I guess Imus isn’t that good at taking his lumps:
During one exchange, Imus said he can’t win with “you people.”
Why isn’t that getting more publicity? That indicates even more racism than the Rutgers women comment. Admittedly, he didn’t call Sharpton a “nappy-headed douche,” but to go on Sharpton’s program and call him you people somehow seems worse to me.
Jesse Jackson Weighs In
Strangely, the Rev. Jesse Jackson had something to say about this situation.
[Jesse] Jackson said Imus’ comments contribute to “a climate of degradation” and stem from a lack of blacks as program hosts.
Yeah, idiot. The problem is that there’s not enough affirmative action. That’s your answer to everything. “There’s only racism on the radio because there’s too many white people!” Basically, he called all white radio show hosts racists. And this gets no attention because he didn’t call the Chicago White Sox “some pale-looking crackers.”
What standards do we hold racism to? Is it only racism if there’s name-calling? It can go deeper than that, especially on the personal level.
What do you think?
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