Why Are White People Mad That Blacks Refused To Settle For Such Treatment?

Question

Imus makes statements about every race and group in the book however no one has never step front to confront him about it i guess because they feel content with being called derogatory names. However when the black community refuses to settle for such, we are considered whiners and whatever else. Am i the only one that feels his remarks were offenisve toward an innocent group of black and white basketball members and they have a right to be upset? Why should black people receive the end of sneers just because other racial groups refuses to stand up for themselves? His rude remarks would have to had come to a end one way or another.

However, i feel as though if he apologized and was sincere about it, that should be the end of it. I dont believe in the firing and further reprimand.

i dont listen to "wuTang" but if they made racial remarks to white people, why didnt you stand up for yourself? thats not my fault.....

i rarely see white advocate groups protest lyrics from a rapper. like i said, if you refuse to stand up for yourselves then they will CONTINUE to do it. that's not our fault. Imus has finally met his match. If we didnt stand up, he would still CONTINUE to insult people. When do you say enough is enough? we are not only getting him for his racial remark but for the other remarks he has said on his show to other groups as well. what troubles me is that there are people out there that feel what he said to these innocent women is ok. despite the fact that these women are in college and doing what they love. there is no double standard in music. many people do not endorse such rappers that insult and use foul language and many black people do not condone this. so where is the double standard? to be a double standard, both standards would have to be right. In this case, we acknowledge their music is wrong. come again sweety.

racism is wrong. if you are in a public position like Imus, there is no freedom of speech. This is obvious. You need to be careful of what you say. And i rarely hear a BLACK rapper calling a BLACK woman a nappy headed hoe. there are derogatory statements in most music anyway. this still doesnt justify a man calling a group of innocent women a racial slur. You would be offended to if a man that you dont know called you a racial slur out the blue. You make these comments while in the spotlight, you pay the price. sad enough that most of you condone such racially motivated actions because "rappers say it all the time"

free speech free speech free speech if you are a public figure with various multi million endorsements and contracts under your belt and call an already sensitive race "nappy head ho" that's pretty stupid to me. not only did he call them a racial slur but also a term worse enough for a $4 diseased prostitute. I am more upset that he called these innocent women this. Forget the black community and rappers call black women these names. that's mute. Who's to say these women listen to rap or even let themselves be called such names? You are insinuating that these women settle for being called a b**** and ho. His remark was made to these women on this team. what does rapper lyrics and black comedians have to do with him calling these women what he did? the position of "rappers call black women this all the time" would halfway be credible if he said this about ALL black people, but he didnt. he called THESE women nappy head ho's

i work for DHS so i know my law sweety. there is no freedom of speech in the public eye. If this was the case, why is don being fired? Why are there various lawsuits and reprimand amongst individuals that were just "having freedom of speech" you also fail to understand the difference in freedom of speech and verbal attack. As a public figure you would expect such a man would have a certain level of professionalism. If he was actually protected under "freedom of speech" why are people pulling contracts away? he is protected right? whats the big deal? Because freedom of speech is not what he was excercising. If you live in the US, you face consequences for everything that you do. he made a highly derogatory slur, not freedom of speech, and now he has to pay for it. sorry...........

Answer 1

I agree!

I have posted at least a dozen answers agreeing that Imus' comments were profoundly hurtful. You can make fun of politicians or actors, but these young women were just ordinary people, doing extraordinary things! Saying it about Condoleeza Rice or Maxine Waters would be bad enough, but this was just picking on people not really in the public arena. Trashing them, to me, is not entirely unrelated to trashing the troops - young people who didn't ask for idiots on the radio to take pot shots at them.

I have big problems with Al Sharpton, and there are double standards about his statements over the years, which upsets me and many other people. He's not the right person to be a moral authority. And there are problems with racial and sexual references in music. But Sharpton is right about Imus.

I don't know why such crap came out of Imus' mouth. I could be on the air every day for years and it would still never occur to me.

Again, it was an amazingly cruel thing to say. These are people's daughters, and he's basically calling them n***** sluts. For what reason? Laughs? Imus is sick.

I think he has already ended his career, because good people are, and should be, disgusted by him.

I'm a little surprised this week, because I'm one of the more conservatrive posters here, and some people who I think of as more liberal than I am seem even more upset about Sharpton, and more likely to defend Imus.

I'm not black and have not been racially insulted like this. But loved ones have, and it just opens old wounds.

I won't feel one bit sorry if his career is ruined. Who else can he blame but himself?

Answer 2

I don't speak for all white people, but I can say this; I don't think we are mad at the black community for standing up for themselves, rather that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. who have had there share of contraversies are taking it upon themsleves to represent the black community, although they don't respresent the entire balck community.

To answer the second part of your question, when white advocate groups try to stand up for themselves, they get looked upon as being racist or memeber of the KKK. so there is a double standard. More to the point, when have Al or Jesse protested a major record label?

I agree Imus apologized and that's that, however Imus has built his career on making "shocking" comments (hence the term shock jock) so why all the suprise and need to terminate him after a 30+ year career. Again it's a double standard.

I don't listen to rap, but I know the lyrics in mist rap songs are foar more dereogotaory than anythin Imus ever said.

Answer 3

I think this sums it all up pretty well.

"Depending on which TV show you tune into, what Imus said was wrong because: (1) His show goes out on FCC-regulated airwaves; (2) he regularly interviews people like Sens. John Kerry, John McCain and Joe Biden; (3) he spoke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner a few years ago; or (4) he's not black.

The reason people don't like what Imus said was because the women on the Rutgers basketball team aren't engaged in public discourse. They're not public figures, they don't have a forum, they aren't trying to influence public policy.

They play basketball — quite well, apparently — and did nothing to bring on an attack on their looks or character. It's not the words Imus used: It would be just as bad if he had simply said the Rutgers women were ugly and loose.

People claim to object to the words alone, but that's because everyone is trying to fit this incident into a PC worldview. It's like girls who say, "It's not that you cheated on me; it's that you lied about it." No — it's that you cheated.

If Imus had called me a "towheaded ho" or Al Sharpton a "nappy-headed ho," it would be what's known as "funny." (And if he called Anna Nicole Smith a "flaxen-headed ho," it would be "absolutely accurate.") But he attacked the looks and morals of utterly innocent women, who had done nothing to inject themselves into public debate.

Imus should apologize to the Rutgers women — and those women alone — send them flowers, and stop kissing Al Sharpton's ring.

This wasn't an insult to all mankind, and certainly not an insult to Al Sharpton. Now, if Imus had called the basketball players "fat, race-baiting black men with clownish hairstyles," well, then perhaps Sharpton would be owed an apology. "

Answer 4

I think we see eye to eye here. I absolutly see why calling someone that would be offensive, it is. But here's the thing. In this country there is freedom of speech. People are going to say things others don't like; but you also have a voice, use it to counter them. This is what has been done, Imus lost. We cannot go around worried that someone might say something we don't like, and that goes for all of us. Black, White, Cristian, Muslim, whatever.
The one thing I might add to this arguement is it is also important for the black community to not use the terminology at all or embrace it completly. Saying blacks can use it while whites can't is like saying whites can use that waterfountain and blacks can't. It's not that I want to use it at all, but it points out an attitude of segregation. And that is racism.
I vow to treat all as humans.

Answer 5

Imus is an idiot. I watched him once twice and that was enough. His error was in making disparaging remarks about women who are not in the entertainment or celebrity business.
Imus has said just about equivalent things about Paris and Nicole, but they are in the public eye, and lost their 'shield'
A New Jersey college team hasn't done that. Other than that he has been just as obnoxious about a wide variety of things. To deprive a man of his living for a gross comment, overlooks the good he has done and asks that we be one- dimensional and judgmental. He was wrong, he apologized, he received a suspension. But to fire him... that goes against the grain. I feel like when you do that you limit free speech even if its obnoxious. Why can't we do that to Rush? or Hannity? Or Combs when we can find him? Where will it stop?
Whos ox gets gored next?
My vote is O'Reilly, should it count?

Answer 6

I agree with you. I think that this man as well as any person should not call woman hoes. These young ladies did not deserve this, white or black. The "Nappy head" thing just took it over the top, now if it was a joke he didn't use JOKE material, any woman I know, consider the term "ho" as a fighting word. I know there are a lot of things said by many people especially men, black & white about woman but I think it all NEEDS TO STOP! If it wasn't for a WOMAN, there would be no men to say NOTTA!!!

Answer 7

His bad behavior is nothing new. Neither is the bad behavior of many public figures especially in the entertainment industry. The fact that he is white and that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson needed a fresh target is what is making this news. They should have accepted his apology and left well enough alone, but they always need to have a whipping boy, so the rest of us now are supposed to get behind them and demand he get fired. I say bull. Leave the man alone or go after ALL offenders. You can't, because that would require a change to the Bill of Rights and would put limits on free speech.

Answer 8

I don't really like Imus, and what he said was wrong, so I don't really care about the outcry. Also, I am white, so there is no way for me to know what it is like to be black. I do know there is still racism and forms of segregation in this country, but I will never experience it the way African Americans do. Therefore I reserve the right to pass judgment and listen to concerns that black leaders have.

Answer 9

I feel the exact same way! Like you said b/c the black community does not except nonsense we are considered whiners and need to get over the ''slavery'' thing! Why does everything have to go back to slavery and not about morals today and respect for one another! He was wrong, the black community made a stand, things were handle by the station and sponsors who wouldn't be with a person who makes lute remarks, and now theirs a outcome!

~And its funny how people say go listen to rap albums and they say nappy head hoes, NEVER HEARD OF IT SORRY! And if they want to go to rap, there are white rappers....lets pull out their lyrics...then speek on it~

Answer 10

You definitely think that West Africans are uglier than other Africans and I will prove to you why. You say: "when the everyday person think of an African, they automatically think of "West African" - You made this question because you feel that Black people (of African descent) are viewed as less attractive than other races. By you suggesting that people think of 'West African'(s) when they think of an 'African' that proves that you think they are [stereotypically] uglier than other Africa,s "There are so many diverse features in Africa, look at East Africans, like Ethiopians, and Somalis, look at South Africans! And Angolans!" - 'Diverse' features basically means 'prettier' features, hm? You listed the other Africans who stereotypically have thinner noses and smaller lips. I cannot take anything you wrote seriously because of the clear ignorance you just expressed here, sorry.