If Don Imus had been a black man, would this even be an issue?

Question

When you hear the caustic, derogatory language of people like Chris Rock and the lyrics of hip hop and rap music, how can we justify the reaction to this moron's comment. Are we operating on a double standard?

Answer 1

If Imus was black no issue at all... do you not see the shape our community is in now... Al & Jessie along with a lot of others do not want to take the responsabilty, and instead of making a diffrence on our own, they will complain, and so forth about when they feel some White man has wronged us.

Answer 2

Who cares? The ignorant liberal lots are having their way with the undesirable guy. the unhappy ingredient is, there isn't something that guy(Don Imus) could probable say or talk over a radio that is going to decrease the widespread of existence for any black male or woman everywhere in the international, however the cry-toddler minorities sense that they might get some thing out of it....slightly administration.....and harm the guy's occupation. it is only not honest. you are able to have the skill to assert NAPPY HEADED HOS OR even if IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY ruled decrease than loose SPEECH. The FCC only needs to provide up their rulebooks and enable issues fly. specific, the racial slurs would be prevelant, yet enable's pull the thumbs out of our mouths, wipe the tears with our blanky-poos, and recover from it. Do human beings think of spanking Don Imus, or all of us else for that matter, is going to alter human beings's comments of alternative races? you like, morons, you like.

Answer 3

Yes, but not as big. It would have centred on the HO statement and not the nappy headed part. HE would keep his job and no black employees would be hurt.

The fact is IT IS worse to hear it from a white man...sorry!!!

Should he be fired...NO. Its not like Peter Jennings did it...isn't Imus famous for being an ****** people hater?

Answer 4

No, of course not... I think it's wrong that the black community are allowed in society to make racist remarks against white people, and even themselves.... But that's not the case in a reverse situation. Treat other people how you would like to be treated, I say....

Answer 5

Absolutely, we do have a double standared
The Duke la cross men were demonized and ridiculed and almost killed by mob violence. Would there have even been anything said if the girl was white? NO

Answer 6

Maybe.

As a white man, I rarely have to deal with people threatening my life due to the color of my skin. My great-grandparents weren't slaves. No one beat my great-grandfather or lynched him. There's never been a law that prohibited anyone in my family from voting. Never been signs that say "No whites allowed."

While I think we need to get over these minor things, I can see how blacks have the right to feel nervous when someone makes a comment about their color. I can see how whites wouldn't have that fear.

(As a Jew, I guess I see both sides because my grandparents were imprisoned, their friends exterminated, and so forth)

Answer 7

Bill Cosby is still working ain't he?

nuf said

Answer 8

Of Course not.

Answer 9

So I see nuthin but white girls on girls gone wild is it safe for me to assume that all white girls are bi-sexual sluts or just because I see jeff foxworthy makin all these redneck jokes is it ok for me assume every white person in the deep south is dumb,toothless ppl who sleep with there family members and live in trailers. You wont hear a rapper or comedian single out black women in that manor

Answer 10

No, Sharpton and Jackson would have laughed and that would have been that.