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Post by drok9 on Apr 6, 2007 15:43:13 GMT -5
Imus 'sorry' for racist remarks about Rutgers
Talk show host called NCAA women runners-up 'some nappy-headed hos'The Associated Press Updated: 4:39 p.m. ET April 6, 2007 NEW YORK - Radio host Don Imus apologized Friday for calling the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos” on his nationally syndicated program. The National Association of Black Journalists demanded his immediate firing after the man known as “Imus in the Morning” put his foot deep in his mouth Wednesday. Imus questioned the players’ looks, describing them as tattooed “rough girls.” His producer compared the team — which has eight black members — to the NBA’s Toronto Raptors. Near the start of Friday’s show, Imus said he wanted to “apologize for an insensitive and ill-conceived remark we made the other morning referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team.” “It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended. Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry.” Gregory Lee, an NABJ officer and senior assistant sports editor at The Boston Globe, said the mea culpa did little to atone for the comments. “You can apologize, but what does that mean when you have a history of making disparaging remarks about people?” Lee asked about the acid-tongued Imus. “This kind of behavior must be punished. I hope the company and sponsors he has take some sort of action ... to educate him.” NABJ President Bryan Monroe asked Thursday if Imus had “lost his mind” and called for the veteran radio host’s dismissal. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGurk when the NCAA title game between Rutgers and Tennessee came up. “That’s some rough girls from Rutgers,” Imus said. “Man, they got tattoos ...” “Some hardcore hos,” said McGurk. “That’s some nappy headed hos there, I’m going to tell you that,” Imus said. Imus, a member of the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame and one of the nation’s best-known radio voices, is renowned for his caustic style and politically incorrect verbal broadsides. His show is syndicated to millions of listeners at more than 70 stations around the country. WFAN-AM, the home of Imus’ show, declined comment. At MSNBC, where the radio program is simulcast on television, officials offered Imus no support. “’Imus in the Morning’ is not a production of the cable network and is produced by WFAN Radio,” said a statement from the network. “As Imus makes clear every day, his views are not those of MSNBC. We regret that his remarks were aired on MSNBC and apologize for these offensive comments.” In a joint statement, NCAA President Myles Brand and Rutgers President Richard McCormick condemned Imus’ slur. “The NCAA and Rutgers University are offended by the insults on MSNBC’s Don Imus program toward the 10 young women on the Rutgers basketball team,” their statement read. “It is unconscionable that anyone would use the airways to utter such disregard for the dignity of human beings who have accomplished much and deserve great credit.” © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. URL: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17982146/
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Post by Blaque on Apr 6, 2007 15:54:23 GMT -5
People kill me!!!! They will say the most racist, hateful thing they can think of and when someone calls them on it, they want to issue an apology. Give me a break. The only thing Imus is sorry about is that his J.O.B. could be in jeopardy.
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Post by sweetpie on Apr 6, 2007 16:01:31 GMT -5
I'm speechless, what called for that? Saying they were a team of rough girls was one thing but to go there? I mean using the nappy headed thing as a negative term like they understand the natural characteristics of black folx? This crap is the reason why I feel whites cannot have the freedom to call a black person a Niga so-called friendly term or not. Most comments they come out with on a mic is supposed to be deemed negative. What IS negative about nappy hair? It effing grows out of MY head and my life rolls on! AND! How is that supposed to make me less? Less than what? YOU? Bullshyt! “The NCAA and Rutgers University are offended by the insults on MSNBC’s Don Imus program toward the 10 young women on the Rutgers basketball team,” their statement read. “It is unconscionable that anyone would use the airways to utter such disregard for the dignity of human beings who have accomplished much and deserve great credit.”Good for them... You know nothing will come of this.
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Post by sweetpie on Apr 6, 2007 20:06:37 GMT -5
I e-mailed his sorry old azz... told him I was sure people were calling for his dismissal for sticking his calloused-laced foot in his mouth and that his comments were ignorant and hate speech his views about AA's should have been kept to himself and that nothing in this life is certain. I told him either he knew something we all didn't know or he was a fool and I felt he was the latter and told him that I was an ex-listener even though I don't listen to his show anyway.
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Post by jazzlover on Apr 7, 2007 4:11:04 GMT -5
Imus is an azzhole but he is consistant, he didn't just start being this way, Imus attacks everybody.
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Post by thicknbassy on Apr 7, 2007 11:05:51 GMT -5
I DO radio, and the chastisement that comes for far less offenses would be excessive.
Don's a lifetime asshole. He just manages to keep gettin' bigger...
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Post by jazzlover on Apr 7, 2007 11:21:59 GMT -5
I grew up on Imus because I lived in that area growing up, nothing Imus says shocks me, he was STERN before STERN!
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Post by sweetpie on Apr 8, 2007 20:46:07 GMT -5
Imus should lose show, critics say POSTED: 8:24 p.m. EDT, April 8, 2007 Story Highlights• Racist comment should cost radio host his job, black leaders say • Sharpton: Apology accepted; resignation should be too • Essence editor: Apology is "too little, too late" • Imus called Rutgers women's basketball players "nappy-headed hos"
NEW YORK (AP) -- Unimpressed by his on-air apology or corporate promises of a tighter leash, critics of syndicated radio host Don Imus are calling for his dismissal over his comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
"I accept his apology, just as I want his bosses to accept his resignation," said the Rev. Al Sharpton.
He promised to picket Imus' New York radio home, WFAN-AM, if the veteran of nearly 40 years of anything-goes broadcasting isn't gone within a week.
Sharpton was not alone in his anger over Imus' description of the Rutgers women, most of whom are black, as "nappy-headed hos" during a Wednesday morning segment of his show.
The Imus show airs for millions of listeners on more than 70 stations and the MSNBC television network.
On Friday, after Imus delivered an on-air apology, both WFAN and MSNBC condemned his remarks. WFAN issued a statement promising to "monitor the program's content" but Imus, a member of the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, was not publicly disciplined.
The National Association of Black Journalists, the editor-in-chief of Essence magazine and a New York sports columnist joined the chorus against Imus.
"What he has said has deeply hurt too many people -- black and white, male and female," said NABJ President Bryan Monroe. "His so-called apology comes two days after the fact, and it is too little, too late."
Angela Burt Murray of Essence magazine called on Imus' bosses to take a harder stance over his "unacceptable" remarks. "It needs to be made clear that this type of behavior is offensive and will not be tolerated without severe consequences," Murray said.
Columnist Filip Bondy of the Daily News, in a column headlined "Imus spews hate, should be fired," said the radio star "should be axed for one of the most despicable comments ever uttered on the air."
The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, lost the NCAA women's championship game Tuesday, and Imus was discussing the game with producer Bernard McGuirk.
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ..."
"Some hardcore hos," said McGuirk.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for WFAN's parent company, CBS Radio, said Saturday there was no additional comment on the Imus situation.
Imus' success has often been a result of his on-air barbs.
"That Imus is in trouble for being politically incorrect is certainly not new," said Tom Taylor, editor of the trade publication Inside Radio. "He's lived his life in and out of trouble. ... This is something CBS will be watching very carefully."
Recent controversies involving Imus focused on a member of his morning team, Sid Rosenberg, who was fired two years ago after a particularly vile crack about cancer-stricken singer Kylie Minogue. Before that, a racially tinged comment by Rosenberg about Venus and Serena Williams stirred another controversy.
The NABJ cited two other incidents in which Imus himself insulted two black journalists. Imus has called PBS' Gwen Ifill a "cleaning lady" and described William Rhoden of The New York Times as "a quota hire," the group said.
Sharpton said he was writing to the Federal Communications Commission about Imus' remarks.
"This is not some unemployed comic like Michael Richards," Sharpton said, alluding to the "Seinfeld" actor who used the N-word and referred to lynching in a rant last year. "This is an established figure, allowed to use the airwaves for sexist and racist remarks
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Post by sweetpie on Apr 8, 2007 20:55:04 GMT -5
This is so tired.
Imus to appear on Sharpton’s radio show Furor rages despite apology for remarks
NEW YORK - Don Imus will appear on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show on Monday, five days after Imus made racially charged comments his own show about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, Sharpton and MSNBC announced Sunday.
Despite Imus’ scheduled appearance, Sharpton said his position was unchanged: He wants Imus fired and intends to write the Federal Communications Commission about the matter.
“Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media,” Sharpton said Sunday. “We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we’ve got to stop this.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said his RainbowPUSH Coalition plans to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC, over the remark Imus made last Wednesday during his show.
Imus said members of the mostly black Rutgers University women’s basketball team were “nappy-headed hos.”
The team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women’s championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on the show, which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and the MSNBC television network.
“That’s some rough girls from Rutgers,” Imus said. “Man, they got tattoos ... .”
“Some hardcore hos,” McGuirk said.
“That’s some nappy-headed hos there, I’m going to tell you that,” Imus said.
Jackson said protests are being planned across the country.
“If he has a right to use that platform to insult and degrade then we have a moral obligation to picket NBC and to protest,” Jackson said. “If he can violate us in that platform in the name of free speech we’ll be picketing NBC in the name of free speech.”
James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus “resign or be terminated immediately.”
Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, which simulcasts “Imus in the Morning,” said the network considers Imus’ comments “deplorable” and is reviewing the matter.
Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio, Imus’ employer and the owner of WFAN-AM, said the company was “disappointed” in Imus’ actions and characterized his comments as “completely inappropriate.”
Imus, who has not been publicly disciplined, apologized on the air Friday.
“It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended. Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry,” Imus said, according to a transcript on MSNBC’s Web site.
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Post by pelicanguy on Apr 9, 2007 23:27:30 GMT -5
Playing devil's advocate: why are black folks getting so upset about this when most of us are guilty of saying the same things he said? Do we check our people when we say the same words? Hell no.
Hell, we invented the term "nappy-headed" out of our color-complex issues. We invented the term "hoes" too.
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Post by Blaque on Apr 10, 2007 15:03:06 GMT -5
After watching events unfold over the last few days I have changed my mind. In my little insignificant opinion, I believe this guy when he says he is sorry. I’m normally the first person to dismiss an empty apology from a celebrity but for some reason, his apologies seems sincere to me. He’s being punished for his actions. Let’s see if his behavior changes in the years to come.
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Post by sweetpie on Apr 11, 2007 5:32:08 GMT -5
Well, they need to think about the stupid crap that comes out of their mouths. Sincere or not I'm not feelin' him.
"Do we check our people when we say the same words?"
How can we get the rappers to stop when the white people are funding their music? It was also said when blackS wouldn't back them white people gave them the chance. So now the formula of demeaning women makes THEM money also, no one is winning here, cept the folx getting the green.
Being called a name in a personal conversation? You handle your business.
Why do we not believe that THEY don't call themselves names? Name calling is not exclusive to the black race. Why is everyone trying to pin it solely on us?
They've come up with that lame excuse everytime. Here's a novel idea...Why not just not do it because it isn't particularly right? Why not make up your own mind about it?
Are you agreeing that the man SHOULD have said it?
How many of us (blacks) have nationally syndicated shows in which thousands listen?
Bro B it doesn't justify it. So HE has the right because he has a microphone? If they could see a foolish situation before hand and saw a bunch of black folx doing it would they do it too? More extreme if they saw a bunch of black folx jumping off a building would they do that? Uh no... so why this? It is a jab, it's to make fun, it's what they do. We should take a stand for something. You gotta start somewhere.
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Post by Blaque on Apr 11, 2007 6:38:13 GMT -5
Hopefully, some good will come from this debate. Personally, I feel people should be as outraged at shows like Flavor of Love, I Love New York, rap videos, and rap lyrics. Someone said on TV this morning that we taught White America to use this language and unfortunately, that statement is very true.
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Post by pelicanguy on Apr 11, 2007 9:31:15 GMT -5
Well, they need to think about the stupid crap that comes out of their mouths. Sincere or not I'm not feelin' him. "Do we check our people when we say the same words?"How can we get the rappers to stop when the white people are funding their music? It was also said when blackS wouldn't back them white people gave them the chance. So now the formula of demeaning women makes THEM money also, no one is winning here, cept the folx getting the green. Being called a name in a personal conversation? You handle your business. Why do we not believe that THEY don't call themselves names? Name calling is not exclusive to the black race. Why is everyone trying to pin it solely on us? They've come up with that lame excuse everytime. Here's a novel idea...Why not just not do it because it isn't particularly right? Why not make up your own mind about it? Are you agreeing that the man SHOULD have said it? How many of us (blacks) have nationally syndicated shows in which thousands listen? Bro B it doesn't justify it. So HE has the right because he has a microphone? If they could see a foolish situation before hand and saw a bunch of black folx doing it would they do it too? More extreme if they saw a bunch of black folx jumping off a building would they do that? Uh no... so why this? It is a jab, it's to make fun, it's what they do. We should take a stand for something. You gotta start somewhere. Never have I said I back Mr. Imus. Hell, I don't even listen to his show. I'm just sick and tired of Negroes getting all up in arms and wants immediate action when someone else says something inappropriate about us, yet we let things slide when it comes to us. We send out too many mixed messages about ourselves. Do white folks talk about themselves? You betcha. However, who are always the ones bitching, moaning and throwing a temper tantrum when something happens? US, sometimes more than we should. Frankly, I felt Al and Jesse should have kept their mouths shut and stayed out of the affair. Rutgers wasn't gonna let it slide, especially their coach. Here's a better question for everyone: Why now? Why did it take soooooooo long for people to finally wake up? Was it because of the comments said or was it because of WHO said the comments?
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Post by sweetpie on Apr 11, 2007 19:33:40 GMT -5
hmmm... To me it was WHO he said it to. I was more offended because they ARE me, my sisters, my daughter, my mother. He said crap about the Williams sisters... they are me too. As far as Sharpton and Jackson are concerned the apologetics white ALWAYS go to them to speak to us. Blacks complain that they speak but no one else really steps up. Someone has to do the talking. I don't particularly think they are as bad as we make them, to tell you the truth if one listens to Sharpton when interviewing he is quite on top of his game. Check out his interview with Matt Lauer. I think it is on MSNBC or was it CNN? Anyhoo check the article that Al Roker wrote about this incident a link is in the article.
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