What do you people think of all the hoopla?
2007-04-11 16:56:53 · 13 answers · asked by geewhizbaby2008 3 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Hey I'm not stupid. I know how I feel I just want to know others reaction. And I do believe in freedom of speech. Although I don't agree with what he said. I am a woman and I am not a HO. Also woman struggle as it is to be on the same level as men's basketball teams, and what the Rutgers accomplished was awesome. He belittled what they achieved and he said a derogatory remark about woman. On top of that he said a racial slur. Their are enough crazies in our world today who don't have no cultural identity so they feel the need to belong and they find that in such groups as the Ku Klux Klan etc etc. He is just planting more seeds of hate in these type of peoples minds. He has power. His power is in his words. Yeah rappers may call belittle woman in their music, but that is different, because it is art. You have the right to choose to buy it or not. So there Mae!
2007-04-11 17:11:33 · update #1
i think it should be done with, he said he was sorry so punish him and let it die
2007-04-11 16:59:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that Al Sharpton gets away with too much crap. No one seems to remember the Tawana Brawley incident. He never faced any backlash from that debacle and yet anytime there's a high or "potentially" high-profile minority case, he's all over it like Anna Nicole on a rich old guy!
Sure, what Imus said was wrong, but he's not being punished properly -- as is always the case with famous people. I'm more into creative punishments where the punishments fit the crime. Like say, Neomi Campbel. I don't see how it makes any difference to the maid that Naomi cleaned the streets of NY. The judge should have had *her* work for the maid for the week, take the maid's sh*t and her parole should note that there be no backlash to this week's events otherwise the maid is duty-bound to report that to the judge and Naomi gets a new, even more demeaning punishment. Until she learns to respect authoritay!
2007-04-11 17:08:34 · answer #2 · answered by Smurfette 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called freedom of speech to speak ones mind. It is what this country was founded on. It may not have been P.C. but it was spoken out and was done in a joking fashion. I can't stand Imus or Rosie but stand by anything they say I may not agree with it but it is protected by the constitution. Btw we are to forgive Rev Al and Jesse Jackson for what they have done but a guy makes one comment and he can not be forgiven. Where is the justice for the now slandered Duke Lacrosse players? Wake up and let things go people. You can't change everyone's opinion and only make what they say all the more true by playing the race card in every situation. I have no problem with any race under the sun but enough is enough. If you can't laugh at yourself then you shouldn't laugh at anyone else. Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy have made fun of white people forever and I laugh, so I should not laugh at jokes about black people? Rappers can say the word ho all day but I can't use it? Fire them as well. Freedom of speech just watch what you say.
2007-04-13 02:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that he should be appropriately punished and then we can move on. In todays climate we can't just apologize and let it roll over. If it were a mosque that some guy peed on and then blamed the Iraqis that they desecrated thier own mosques using them as shield in the war so he shouldn't be held respobsible. That he learned how to do it from them. Nobody's buying it. He'd probably lose his job and be lucky not to be found dead somewhere. While not as serious as that, people do take it seriously because they feel it is a symptom of a larger problem that is being ignored.
2007-04-11 17:04:41 · answer #4 · answered by Magnus01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a black woman I was offended, but I don't think he should've lost his job. In America you're supposed to be allowed freedom of speech no matter how hateful or ignorant.
And I don't buy his apology. He's been saying remarks like this. The media is just race-baiting.
2007-04-11 17:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by Xena_fire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly that. Much ado about nothin'.
yet another case of "Stupid man who opens his stupid mouth"
So what? Why THIS time?? he's been saying cr-ap like this for 30 years!
Anything to take the focus away from things that REALLY matter.
Why don't we ALL agree to stop ALL hate speech?
2007-04-11 17:01:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too much hoopla altogether. Al Sharpton has said much worse things, and yet he's on his high horse about this.
I wouldn't mind a little better language, though.
2007-04-11 17:12:20 · answer #7 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
imus had it coming
he's been doing this for years and has had protection from the higher ups in washington, but now they're distancing themselves from him because of political correctness. he didn't mean it personally, those comments he made. bill maher could have said it on his hbo program and no one would have done anything. but imus said it and the media over exaggerated it. it's common in media today to take someone down by blowing up a freedom of speech protected comment and rail roding them into oblivion.
2007-04-11 17:00:44 · answer #8 · answered by cpinkfloyd 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why is it all right for certain people to call certain people certain things and not others??? What is up with the double standard????
2007-04-11 17:05:38 · answer #9 · answered by ktterdfurguson 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was way out of line for saying what he said and MSNBC is deplorable for having waited until their sponsors sprung into action to do anything about him. Like 2 weeks off was going to mean anything to him.
2007-04-11 17:00:12 · answer #10 · answered by Awesome Bill 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He made a mistake, he apologized for it, and the race nazis got him anyway. I think it's wrong what happened to him.
2007-04-11 16:59:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋