Why pick on Imus, get after the rappers with their foul language. CBS-Radio should be baned too, correct?

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A lot of people like rap and hip-hop, especially the foul, (or filthy) language the artists use,plus rap about killing people, drive by shootings, and the list goes one. Rappers should be banned as well or more than Imus.

If it was an illegal alien from another galaxy far, far away, instead of Imus who said what he said, guess what would have happened? ZaP, ZaP, ZiP, of the ray gun and the complainers are gone.

We didn't hear Rodney King asking, "Can we all get along?" in this situation.

You see a lot of racist things in the movies, yet no color in real life complains. Even tv's Amos n Andy, the blacks called it racist. The Pres, of NAACP back in the days of old time radio, loved the Amos & Andy radio show portrayed by white men.

Answer 1

I agree with everything you stated above. I might mention one other thing people are not talking about. We all know the kindof language Imus uses, his satirical descriptions of different kinds of people and so forth, BUT, do we after watching one of his shows go out into public and say those things to people??? Hell no we don't because we all were raised better than that. What I am trying to say is that Imus is NOT someone we would purposely and maliciously model ourselves after. He has no influence on how we get along in Society at all. When his show ends on TV or Radio, we have had a good laugh, and then we all go out and do our own thing with some of the same people he was making fun of and have a good laugh...........no one gets hurt. So firing him was wrong......The whole thing steamrolled into a huge avalanche of Political Correctness that is strangeling our country. There is also a group of people, who for really sick political reasons, wanted his ouster for their own gain. I can't stress how dangerous this is for Freedom of Speech and the ruination of our entire political system. To be more specific about Radio-CBS, where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when some of that Rapper and Hip Hop **** is so vulgar and nasty and demeaning that it makes you sick to your stomach? Is it patriotic, are they love songs, do they have any intrinsic value at all????? No, it's just garbage that affects our young people in a negative and even violent way. Does CBS-Records care about this??? No.......it's the $$$$$ they are after. (You can include MTV on that too) I predict that Imus will make a comeback on Serius XM, and those that w2ant to b3e harmlessly intertained will again be laughing. I'm not so sure though about Rap Music and Videos, they've got some pretty heavy scummy thuggy backers...............both posing as men of the cloth!!!!!

Answer 2

Yeah, I don't see why Sharpton is shoving this crap only down Imus' throat. I think it's a bit hypocritical that he's talking about how Imus implied that the rutger team's girls were ho's when in most of media (mostly music like hip hop and rap), all they really talk about is "ho's." I think Sharpton should talk to his own race first before being a jerk to another race for calling someone a ho. But I do think that Imus was out of line for saying something so derrogatory about anyone, no matter what race they are.

Answer 3

Other than the fact that C BS wants to take a little heat off another scandal of their own..PLAGIARISM at CBS ..they are playing into the bias liberal agenda , feeding into white racism and promoting hatred ..and hypocrisy . CBS fired a producer for plagiarizing a Wall St. Journal article of Jeffrey Zaslow's .. but it helps to fire Imus too , because then maybe their record of making up the news again ( can you say 2004 Presidential Election ) can be covered up with the Imus story .

Answer 4

It wasn't that he used foul language. It was that he used racial terms. I agree that RAP music contains things that should be banned. I'm sick to death of hearing 'songs' that are only created to see how many times they can squeeze the 'f' word in to a 3 minute time frame. I'm HARDLY a goody two shoes, and yes, I DO use that word...but that is NOT art, and it's sure as he11 not talent. It's not just that word, either. I'm sick of it promoting violence and drug use and all of that. Even so, it's a DIFFERENT debate than the Imus story.

Yeah, yeah..."You can turn it off". Good for me, HOWEVER...it's influence affects my kids even if they don't listen to it... because those who choose to listen, take that crap to heart and MY kid has to watch his/her back because some dipshi7 gangsta-rapper idiot thinks it's cool to bring a knife to school.

Answer 5

wow...another one with the same exact question/comment...OK look the rappers are talking about their own life experiences, I get extremely offended about some of these rap songs, and guess what I do, I turn it off, and just don't listen to it. Let's stop comparing an the two, its really not the same. As a radio personality he should know better, if these rappers are selling music by calling people filthy names, why would they want to stop, when people stop being stupid enough to buy music that degrades them, then maybe they will try something else...and I agree with the person way above me that says that black folk don't buy the records, 70% are actually bought by young whites..

Answer 6

Oh, they are just saying on TV that we can't compare the two since the rappers are talking about the life they have lived or been around & Imus was talking about someone!!! It is ALL a bunch of bull !!!! I do agree no matter what the form it is in it all should be stopped!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

ok then what will the caucasian kids and teens listen to then if rap is gone?? hmmmmmmm... cause i work at best buy and they are the main ones buying up the rap cds...now since imus has said this stupid statement, somehow ppl have turned it back onto the african americans as usual.......wow....rappers tend to talk about anonymous ppl and other rappers.....and they handle this within the "hip hop community" i have never heard any rapper talking about imus, or talking about anyone WHO didnt deserve to be talked about..i.e. bush...but we all know rappers arent the only ones dogging the government...the dixie chicks "aint playing nice" either...but i dont see anyone going after them or kanye west about bush.....

"rappers are sooo very sorry for not growing up in a nice gated community with no crime, both parents, and a dog thats a purebred.." (sarcastically said....)

Answer 8

Keerect, Kemosabe, absolutely! A lot of the three letter corporations embrace rap crap because they're afraid not to as it is within the realm of the protected politically correct. Have a little news for you, CBS, IBM and IGT; we whites whom created you are about to strike back and never mind your golden parachutes as we will sue you in court, dressed appropriately in Celtic plaid lawsuits.

Answer 9

The rappers taught Imus how to misbehave.

Answer 10

Seems society as a whole does not want to be labeled racist so they excuse racist and women degrading as long as the blacks are doing it.