Just my opinion on Don Imus being fired and a few questions arising from that....?

Question

Just my opinion on Don Imus being fired and a few questions arising from that....?
Don Imus gets fired over his comments. We hear similar words being used by a lot of hip hop artists all the time. Do
people not find that offensive? If yes, then shouldn't all these hip hop artists be held accountable too? If no, then isn't that discrimination? I know what Snoop Dogg said....we are talking about da hos in da hood and not young college athletes. But what different does it make? We are all human beings....and all laws and/or rules should be the same for everyone regardless of race.....shouldn't there be civil rights for all races then? Better yet, get rid of civil rights and why don't we all live on this planet peacefully and in harmony as one race....THE HUMAN RACE.

Answer 1

I couldn't have said it better myself!!! What goes around comes around so all that caused his firing has something coming back to them someday, some way!!! 110% right about the words in alot of rap music, but I guess that is alright!!! NOT!!!

Answer 2

First of all, I heard the "hip hop songs" debate a thousand times. So what ,stupid rap artists use words like ***** and hoe. That doesn't make it right. People have always fought against the hip hop artists, but they've never won, so the debate has gotten pushed aside. Personally, I don't support it, and if I could I would get them off the radio, too. Don Imus had no right to say what he said and that's it! We are the human race, and I'm glad you wish we could be one race. It's not happening, though. I wish the exact same thing, but it's not happening anytime soon. I think that's obvious, so until we are able to live in harmony, we have to fight against sexist bigots like Imus and Hip Hop artists. Don't simply accept what Imus said, because hip hop artist do the same thing. I hope you don't look to them as your moral guideline.

P.S.
Omg, I can't believe you said "Get rid, of Civil Rights." Do you know that is what has brought many races from an oppressive state? We have to keep our Civil Rights. If we do not, then we might slip back into that state. You optimism is unrealistic. It will be a long time before race is ignored. UNTIL THEN, we need Civil Rights, for everyone's sake. Imus has Civil Rights but blacks do, too. He crossed the line with the comment, and hurt some very intelligent women's feelings. You cannot disregard that. How do you think those women feel? How do you think they feel being overshadowed by Imus's sexist and racist remarks, when the accomplished something great? It really hurts me to even think about it. I understand your opinion, but I don't think your looking at the big picture here. Please at least qualify my opinion. *sigh* I feel better, getting that off my chest.

Answer 3

You know the whole thing was really bizarre. What on earth piossessed the man to so humiliate and denigrate those young women?

The other side of the coin is why did Al Sharpton who has been personally responsible for much worse than mere remarks ( The damage done to the lives of the police officers falsely accused in the tawana Brawley rape case which to this day Sharpton has never repudiated or apologized for and now the same horrible use of the Duke lacrosse case to gain public notoriety for his sorry a** self. And HE is still on HIS radio show. Its incredible.

Ican understand CBS had they fired Imus IMEDIATELY then it would have had the appearance of genuine moral outrage. But after days of keeping him in Limbo and THEN to fire him has all the appearrance of caving into the politically correct crowd.

Answer 4

I agree with you completely. It's discrimination for Americans to hold guilt and crime against an other American. I hear the Dogg using profanity like that all the time, yes. I think your given points are right on, and not just a newscaster, but rappers and artists should be accounted for using that kind of profanity. All profanity is bad profanity, I've never heard of "good" profanity, and I don't see the reason why so many people use it in the first place. We are one race, but just because of our colors we have to be different races. I don't want to get too mushy or cheesy, but we should absolutely live together and not judge upon the color of our skin but from the good of our hearts. Some may think that profanity isn't all so bad in rap videos, because it's rap and people will be prone to use that type of language, but nonetheless it's still meaning a lot to society and young teenagers listening to that will be exposed to profanity and they'll think rap artists are great influences and it's OK to listen to profanity and be OK with it which it's not.

Answer 5

I agree that Don Imus should have never said what he said; however, I feel that there is a double standard, i.e., Imus gets fired and there is no apology for the "verbal brutality" that the Duke lacrosse players took from Sharpton with no apologies made concerning the remarks towards them.

Answer 6

Didn't imus take advantage of his time on the air to really inform the public about hip hop and all rap music I see so many mothers and fathers checking ipods isn't great Imus wanted out of his contract because they were trying to control context denying him free speech so he won't work on a sensored network really watch MSNBC them make your on judgement. They tried to destroy imus hes a millionaire he probably had automatic deposit of his check to a charity he wanted out of his contract but they wouldn't let my go, so he went over the line he knew it

Answer 7

The Human Race does not want equality. It has been bred on competition. While there are irregularities in acceptable behaviours, there is no changing what is. What we need to do is alert the media that we don't care and they won't make such big issues out of it.

Answer 8

no excuses for Imus. He was justly terminated.

Snoop Dog and all the other self-hating low-life rappers are scum, and in fact have been criticized Revs. Jackson, Sharpton and many other black leaders. Profane rap songs are not played on free radio, and no one is forced to purchase Rap CDs.

Answer 9

Agree.

Answer 10

Your right on the mark