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    http://www.nypost.com/seven/04102007...avid_k__li.htm
    I don't know how many of you are following this story, but I've been hearing a lot of "Well, he has the right to say what he wants, first ammendment, blah, blah, blah". Well, its time people start paying for their actions. Sorry, a 2 week suspension and a weak apology is not enough. Now the guy is trying to sound like the victim. I actually agree with the poverty pimp himself, Al Sharpton, that Imus needs to be canned. Whats your opinion?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
    http://www.nypost.com/seven/04102007...avid_k__li.htm
    I don't know how many of you are following this story, but I've been hearing a lot of "Well, he has the right to say what he wants, first ammendment, blah, blah, blah". Well, its time people start paying for their actions. Sorry, a 2 week suspension and a weak apology is not enough. Now the guy is trying to sound like the victim. I actually agree with the poverty pimp himself, Al Sharpton, that Imus needs to be canned. Whats your opinion?
    If the logic were applied equally I would agree but thats hardly the case. Imus shouldnt be fired, just like 50cents shouldnt be sued/penalized everytime he calls someone a ho either.
    There are few things more annoying than some idiot who has never done anything trying to say definitively how something should be done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odin
    If the logic were applied equally I would agree but thats hardly the case. Imus shouldnt be fired, just like 50cents shouldnt be sued/penalized everytime he calls someone a ho either.
    When will white people ever learn?


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    Is it just me or are these shock jocks not shocking? "Nappy headed ho" isn't shocking, its just insulting. There is a difference.

    Even as an insult its not exactly Shakespeare.
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    It really is a strange bit of business. I don't think Imus should be insulting black women, but it's hard to get angry at him and him alone; the rap business was partially built on insulting and degrading black women, and you don't hear them apologizing. Nor do you hear anyone calling upon them to do so.

    As for Sharpton, if you ever catch yourself agreeing with him, just dunk your head in cold water. He never apologized for the race-baiting Tawana Brawley episode, in which he was deeply involved. That was a heck of a lot more hateful than doddering old Imus grumbling about "hos."

    If he gets fired the world will keep on turning, and free speech will still be free. It's not really a big deal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
    When will white people ever learn?
    Why dont you enlighten us Vladimir
    There are few things more annoying than some idiot who has never done anything trying to say definitively how something should be done.

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    My offer to come over and shoot Al Sharpton still stands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Odin
    Why dont you enlighten us Vladimir
    Well my good deity I thought it was self-evident. You wouldn't have a race baiter like Sharpton going after Dave Chapell for the same thing. Of course, Dave is actually funny and worth watching.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
    Well my good deity I thought it was self-evident. You wouldn't have a race baiter like Sharpton going after Dave Chapell for the same thing. Of course, Dave is actually funny and worth watching.
    I made an assumption of what you meant, but as I spend more and more time in the backroom assumptions are never safe here.
    There are few things more annoying than some idiot who has never done anything trying to say definitively how something should be done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odin
    I made an assumption of what you meant, but as I spend more and more time in the backroom assumptions are never safe here.
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    What does "nappy-headed" mean?
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    The biggest problem I have is the racial double standard at work. Imus is a comedian, he's a morning talk show shock jock that has made a career out of insensitive remarks and shocking chat. There's a big difference between a comedian known for making fun of anyone and everyone using the term 'nappy headed hos' to get a laugh than say, an evening news anchor using the same term in an off hand remark. On the other hand Dave Chappelle, who was notorious for casting a wide ethnic net, routinely singled out non-black ethnic groups and nobody thought twice about it.

    Like Trent Lott Imus was a fool to apologize, let alone agree to go on Sharpton's turf and turn this into a pop culture 'incident'. A quick comeback or tirade using a 'voice of reason' could have diffused the entire situation and made Sharpton look like a bigger phony and fool than he already is. Imus apologizing just made things worse.
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    I'm sure in the end it will all come down to money. If his show starts losing advertisers or ratings, he will be fired. Is there a replacement show in mind?

    Disclaimer: Never heard his show before, so my opinion is worthless (at least to the advertisers...).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
    What does "nappy-headed" mean?
    Its in reference to Blacks hair texture. Its very racists.
    These young ladies are going to college, busting their asses on the court and this old closet racist calls them "nappy headed hos". What's he done with his life except sit behind a microphone being an idiot. I know the rap arguement and the free speech arguement but there has got to be stronger concequences for this sort of BS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spino
    Like Trent Lott Imus was a fool to apologize, let alone agree to go on Sharpton's turf and turn this into a pop culture 'incident'. A quick comeback or tirade using a 'voice of reason' could have diffused the entire situation and made Sharpton look like a bigger phony and fool than he already is. Imus apologizing just made things worse.
    Agreed. For some reason, when I caught Imus apologizing on the nightly news, and I saw the predatory gleam in Sharpton's eyes, all I could picture was buckets of chum being tossed to a shark. Apologizing to Sharpton just feeds the frenzy.

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    If only I weren't a Catholic....I'd buy him the ticket to visit Al.

    Oh well, off to say a few Ave Marias for that thought.
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    Have any of you who are condemming him even heard it?



    It was an off hand remark you can hear it here, for crying out loud it sounds like he is congratulating them and calling them tough athletes..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaftrHk0e1c


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    Quote Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
    Its in reference to Blacks hair texture. Its very racists.
    These young ladies are going to college, busting their asses on the court and this old closet racist calls them "nappy headed hos". What's he done with his life except sit behind a microphone being an idiot. I know the rap arguement and the free speech arguement but there has got to be stronger concequences for this sort of BS.
    Well Dave, over here in communist Europabia we have laws against that sort of thing, but then we also have laws against denying the holocaust, insulting other heads of state (thankfully never applied) and a dozen or so other things. It is, for once, a real slippery slope, and i'm not sure I like where we're heading...
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    When he comes back from suspension he should do his very first show in blackface.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump
    When he comes back from suspension he should do his very first show in blackface.
    There are few things more annoying than some idiot who has never done anything trying to say definitively how something should be done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump
    When he comes back from suspension he should do his very first show in blackface.
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    Well, when I first heard what he said, all I could say was

    "OUCH."

    That was a rather crude insult. If he can't come up with anything wittier or more articulate than that, he deserves to be fired.
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    "Nappy headed ho" is racist? I never knew that. I assumed he was "just" being sexist.

    Still think its crass rather than shocking though.
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    Can you explain to me why this is any different, or special, or why the hubbub ? Isn't it the same stuff that appears in 99% of the "lyrics" of hip-hop and gangsta music ?
    I fail to see why this deserves particular attention...
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    Imus is white, that's why (and that's what Vladimir was referring to, if I'm not mistaken).

    Slightly off-topic, but did anyone see the Daily Show episode recently where they were talking about the N-word? They had John Oliver and Larry Wilmore (the Senior Black Correspondent) doing the "interviews", and Wilmore's job was to actually say the words so Oliver wouldn't get in trouble. Disturbingly hilarious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drone
    Imus is white, that's why (and that's what Vladimir was referring to, if I'm not mistaken).
    Is that all ?
    Aren't there a bunch of white hip-hop "artists", too ?
    Well, anyway, thank you for the explanation, drone. I guess it kinda makes sense in today's messed-up, double-standards, PC society, in a weird twisted sort of way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
    Is that all ?
    Aren't there a bunch of white hip-hop "artists", too ?
    Well, anyway, thank you for the explanation, drone. I guess it kinda makes sense in today's messed-up, double-standards, PC society, in a weird twisted sort of way.
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    What kind of insult is this? Nappy-headed hos? So his best shot at someone is that they are black whores with hair that is very curly? What an idiot.

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    Seems to me he was trying too hard to be funny. I read a partial transcript of this conversation with his buddy. The whole thing smacks of foot-in-mouth syndrome.

    Suppose there are any incidents of a minority insulting a white group (other than the GOP)?

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    I'm really having a hard time figuring Americans out lately.

    There was a thread in here a while ago about a bunch of Texan university students (law students, IIRC) who threw a MLK Day party where they dressed up as pimps, drank Schlitz Malt Liquor out of brown paper bags, and ate fried chicken.

    I found the whole idea offensive and racist, and was generally poo-pood by American backroom orgahs.

    But now you guys are getting offended by a guy making reference to 'fros?

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