Warning – Please be advised the following Commentary contains citations of sexually explicit profanity. -ed
When Don Imus referred to a Black women’s basketball team as “nappy headed hos” he was using a description (“hos”) that Black rappers have popularized on CBS sister stations.
CBS is owned by Viacom, http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/viacom.asp%20 which also owns MTV and VHS. These stations are responsible for making this expression part of the national vocabulary.
Viacom also owns “Famous Music,” which publishes and markets the work of hip-hop and rap artists who portray Black women as “bitches” and “hoes.” A cursory search
yielded this couplet from Rapper “Cadillac Tah”:
Bitches come, bitches go But little do they know we don’t love them ho’s (“Come and Go”)
So, Imus is double victimized by CBS’s owners. First they popularize a derogatory attitude and expression, and then they fire him for using it.
The expression is so common that Imus’ sidekick actually introduced it into the conversation:
“Imus: That’s some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and –
McGuirk: Some hard-core hos.
Imus: That’s some nappy-headed hos there. I’m gonna tell you that now, man, that’s some – woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like – kinda like – I don’t know.”
Imus transgressed because Blacks can call their women “hos,” but Whites have to treat them with kid gloves, as an endangered species.(They are a privileged subset of another endangered minority, women.)
These Anti-White-Male prejudices were apparent when the CBS President, Leslie Moonves, one of the Original Endangered Minority (upon which all others are modeled,) announced he was firing Imus.
“There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society,” CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said… “That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision.”
“Young women of color trying to make their way in this society.” Does he mean women like the Black stripper who falsely accused the Duke Lacrosse players of rape? Does he mean language of the kind Viacom is broadcasting, publishing and selling!?
You need a shoe shine job The way you polish a knob Backstage panties down eat dick Good-bye Biotch!! (Ya Rule “Extacy”)
“Young women of color trying to make their way in this society?” That’s a laugh! Every corporation, university and government department has orders to rush them to the head of the line! This is confirmed by the next paragraph:
“Imus had a long history of inflammatory remarks. But something struck a raw nerve when he targeted the Rutgers team – which includes a class valedictorian, a future lawyer and a musical prodigy – after they lost in the NCAA championship game.”
Imus’ Remarks spawned a feeding frenzy. All the usual sharks–Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton, Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama-cashed in.
Jackson called the firing “a victory for public decency. No one should use the public airwaves to transmit racial or sexual degradation.”
Like this from Viacom’s “Famous Music” site?
Look, Samantha, Loraine, Monica, Veronica Veronica, she treated ******* like a harmonica **** sucker How you think I learned how to twist it and turn Ya back until it’s broke, make you feel it in your throat It was Pamela, Linda, Keisha, Nicole Had me fuckin while I was drivin on cruise control Can’t wait to get it home and teach it all to you Look I’m just tryna be the best, I’m doin it all for you You know that thing with the peanut butter My Brooklyn ***** said **** untyin the ropes, it’s faster with a box cutter I know you love the way I’m diggin you out But always wanna fuckin argue so let’s figure this out I’m just tryna make you happy ***** Who’s there for you anytime you get in the mood for suckin a dick (Xzibit, “Fuckin You Right, Restless”)
Said Sharpton: “[Imus]says he wants to be forgiven. I hope he continues in that process. But we cannot afford a precedent established that the airways can commercialize and mainstream sexism and racism.”
Who is he kidding? Does he listen to what Viacom is broadcasting?
Cops gettin mad cause I paid ‘em off, made ‘em cough blood and **** That’s what the hell you motherfuckers get, we runs this *****? So hey, you ain’t gotta be scared to **** If you want head, then prepare to suck (do it) Even if the ***** don’t care to nut For every stroke, it’s a hundred bucks Respect the game, you just a **** So open your legs up and get my duck (“Pimp Like Me” D-12 Devil’s Night)
The principled men of CBS stand to lose revenues of $15 million a year from Imus’ Show. But they make much more than that from promoting and selling this poison.
It gets better! Imus has raised more than $40 million dollars to fight SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and was in the middle of a fund raising marathon Thursday when the announcement was made!
Corporate sponsors affirmed their political bona fides by canceling advertising. If you like Imus, boycott the following: American Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co. and General Motors Corp. But buy Bigelow Tea. ” Imus thanked one sponsor, Bigelow Tea, for sticking by him.”
Another Uncle Tom, Bryan Monroe, president of the National Association of Black Journalists and director of Ebony and Jet magazines, met with Moonves on Wednesday.He urged them … to take a stand against the coarsening of culture.
“Something happened in the last week around America,” Monroe said. “It’s not just what the radio host did. America said enough is enough. America said we don’t want this kind of conversation, we don’t want this kind of vitriol, especially with teenagers.”
Does this guy ever watch MTV? Does he live in the USA?
*CONCLUSION*
Don Imus is another victim of the Culture War, a ritual sacrifice to the God of political correctness. He is an object lesson for average Americans on when “prejudice and hate” is allowed and when it is not. (Come in Mel Gibson and Michael Richards.) It is allowed against White Christian heterosexuals. See “Imus Treatment Ignored for Catholic Bashers”
It is not allowed against Blacks, Jews and homosexuals. I didn’t listen to Imus but he also criticized powerful Jews.
I don’t think /anyone/ should get the Imus treatment. It smacks of the Orwellian thought control, Soviet show trials and Maoist rituals of public chastisement and contrition. It smacks of the New World Order.
What is wrong with hatred and prejudice anyway? Do we fault the Holocaust survivor who hates Nazis? Do we blame the battered wife who hates the man who disfigured her? Do we begrudge the Black slave who hates the man who wields the whip? Wouldn’t they be less than human not to hate them? I do not believe people hate for no reason. There is a justified hatred that is natural, necessary and human, and we are being conditioned to be impassive.
Similarly isn’t “prejudice” another term for learning from experience? Often it’s really “postjudice.” I think most people will change their views when they see that the facts have changed.
Then why should we blame people who resent being relegated to second-class citizens in their own country? Who resent that a foreign central banking cartel has taken control of politics and the media? Who resent it flooding the country with aliens in order to change its character? Who resent that marriages and families have been destroyed by Feminism, introduced by those Communist and Media Jews who serve this cartel? Who resent that their young are dying and their nation is being bled dry by the banker’s foreign wars? Who resent they are losing their freedom under the guise of a phony war on terror? Who resent that the fearless media doesn’t expose the scoundrels who are really responsible for 9-11 and the death of 3000 Americans?
The real endangered minority is Don Imus’ audience: the average white Christian American. The foreign elites are using minorities to dis-empower the majority. Don Imus may have expressed the majority’s resentment. He had to go.
Let’s make the bastards pay.
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Henry Makow Ph.D. is the inventor of the game Scruples and author of “A Long Way to go for a Date.” His articles exposing fe-manism and the New World Order can be found at his web site www.savethemales.ca He enjoys receiving comments, some of which he posts on his site using first names only. hmakow@gmail.com
No I don’t think it is fair for a white male to take all the brunt for the things that our black american males have done to us (black women). They call us out our names for decades, father children and dont take care of them, play victim to society and leave us to raise the whole culture on our own. Our race has MAJOR issues and people like Al Sharpton get offended when they are forced to look in the mirror at their own shortcomings as a race. Im very proud to be a black woman but my brothers I am disappointed by time after time. It’s been too long, it’s been too many excuses….Even when a male has anything going for himself it seems he’d rather just marry a white woman or other race instead of bothering with the woman that looks like him. (every one has a preference I don’t knock that) But don’t come to our defense, when you are not worthy to defend us. You are the ones that have put is in this vonerable position. You(black males) don’t put us on a pedestal or value us. Society is treating us the way you have taught them to treat us. How Dare You get angry? If you would have been there for us for the last few decades maybe we wouldn’t be in this predicament today….I apologize to Mr. Imus , because I just don’t think it’s his fault at all…” Black Man, if you care at all , call your baby mama and tell her THANK YOU for loving you enough to bring life into this world with you.. Look in the mirror, are you worth it?
Sure.
The firing is justified.
The hypocracy is not.
Imus got fired because the sponsors pulled their ads. So it really wasn’t CBS choice to fire him. It was all about money, not racism.
You know, you have made a great attempt to sound intellegent with your research etc. But it all comes down to the basics. Imus was way out of line. His comments were undeserved, slanderous, and in many ways offensive. Rappers??? Of course they have went beyond boarders in their freedom of speech. I would love to see the rap community be sensored more. Maybe our upcoming generations would be more respectful and have morals. Lets face it, America pays these talk show host, major league sports players, and entertainers more money than your average teacher, doctors and lawyers. Not to mention the everyday worker that makes this country run. Here’s the deal, Imus needed to be reprimanded, it’s not like this was his first time making derogitory comments, it just finally caught up to him. People act like this country has been out of slavery for hundreds of years, the generations that owned slaves are still living and have either changed their views or have raised another generation of hate. Hate that demeans someone, race or culture no matter what color they may be is unacceptable and should not be tollerated. I’m thankful for the voice of equality, of rights, of standard. I know! What about the right to freedom of speech. I just know that I am thankful for the many voices that have stood up and were counted. I’m glad I can live in a time where at least it’s somewhat easier to be who you are and I really don’t want to go backwards. If we don’t put a stop to what people consider the “small stuff” it can quickly turn into a wildfire of division.
Don Imus is a victim of the idiotic al sharpton . How many times must this idiot due something idiotic before he is silenced in the press. Imus didnt say anything that wasnt out of wack. I have heard worse things coming out of rap albums and other venues other that radio. i think he is a scapegoat of the powers that be cause they think they are doing the right thing. one thing that nobody noted was that there were also white females on the team that were equally made fun of I think this country is losing a battle against the poor little me’s of the world who are just to lazy to focus on there own problems. I SUGGEST AL SHARPTONS RADIO SHOW NEEDS TO BE CANCELED
If only Imus waited a week or two to make those comments no one would have cared because all of the news would have been surrounded around Virginia Tech….no one would have even noticed Imus. News was slow when Imus was put in the spotlight so the media put all of their attention on him.
Great!! Nice research and presentation. I’ve notice something now. Since the fallout from the Imus ordeal, people are FINALLY bringing light to this, and other, double-standards. I think, as long as society doesn’t give up, the fallout from this will reach into the music industry and start cleaning up rap and other hate-based forms of expression.
All this does is make white people even more distanced from the black community. While he clearly upset the team and owed them an apology, it is pretty obvious he was mimicking the urban slang that has found its way into our culture through rap music and hip hop. I’m sure he thought he was being hilarious and wasn’t thinking of the players hearing that.
There is still a lot of racism in this country, but this isn’t a good example. A good example is how white people get probation for the same crimes that black people go to prison for. And those of you out in the job market know its hard enough to get a job without that on your back for the rest of your life.
I committed felony assault when I was fifteen, and I guarantee you if I had been a black kid with cornrows I would have been sentenced, which I was able to avoid and get my college degree. A lot of black people don’t get that chance in this country if they make one mistake.
Even the ones that don’t make mistakes get hassled by the police all the time. I had a good friend in college who is black and had a 4.0 GPA, all the man ever did was study. But when he went out in his car there was probably a 1 in 10 chance he was getting stopped for some reason. (I guess his car was a little too nice). This treatment didn’t seem to bother him too much, but it would’ve pissed me off big time.
That’s the kind of thing Sharpton and Jackson should be harping on, not whether some multi-millionaire loses his relatively uninfluential job or not.
What a great speech- – and a waste of time. You give a lot of examples of rotten talk by others, as if Imus was kicked off for bad language.
Bad language is not his crime, slander is. When some of those guys bad-mouth whites, or blacks, or anything else, they’re not slandering individuals.
Imus slandered the team. They’re individuals who’s pictures are recognized, and who’s names are known. I don’t believe he should only be fired from his job. I’d like to see each one skin him for slander.
Imagine in a club or your church, if the preacher announced that your wife is a whore in front of a few dozen people. Then imagine the millions who hear Imus.
a better forum for you would be yahoo diatribes, yahoo monologues or yahoo soliloquies. That is a ridiculously long question.
Since when is rap music the standard by which appropriate behavior is measured? Imus has political candidates, and members of the mainstream media on his show. Comedy or not he has to be held to a higher standard than your average late teens early twenties rap artist.
White christian Americans disadvantaged ? do we see that in their lack of political and economic power?
How much responsibility does the media have for continually hyping the situation? No I don’t think he should have been fired but he was wrong and admits it.
Amen brother. people should also think of all the anti-semitic remarks that Al Sharpton has made. We should get him fired now. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
Yes he did deserve it. First, kudos on the background information you provided. It provided a decent, and valid counter arguement. However, this was all limited to an idealistic view. This had nothing to do with morals, ethics, or the law. In reality, Imus is hired by a business to sell advertising spots. When he turned himself to a PR nightmare, the advertising dollars vanished, and hence his job.
Long question.
#1) Life isn’t fair.
#2) Remember the TV show the Jefferson’s? George would call the White Guy Tom Willis a Honkey and he’d sit there looking upset but would say anything back? When inside he wanted to say something like … “Listen up you shorter version of a missing link married to that Gorilla Weezy. You clean peoples racing stripes from their underware and you are getting upity on me? Yeah I’m white and your black, so maybe God had a sense of humor and is punishing you, and you better just take it, the next time you can’t hail a cab at 2 o-clock in the morning because you don’t own a car.” Or something to that effect, but he didn’t he just sat there.
No justifiable cause…
This video on youtube gives a great theory on the situation…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTe2yceZ_…
yes , he should have been fired. because we are already going back in time on race i see more racism now then ever @ work @school and people just don’t want to speak out unless the media hear it and other people that care take charge this man had already sad some very nasty things about blacks i think that in the work field where you have white collar workers with the Marjory being whites you will always hear things like this come out in the further. i have seen email that came from offices workers that told jokes about black ant other minority people on that came from big companies that we hear about in the media but i was told that it was true about the email and just throw it away by a black man i can see the further now blacks and whites are not coming together but more like that war were in now if we don’t make a equal change now then we might as well call for world war America between the races because i see everyday the young poor people growing anger and anger to the point where they don’t car if they live ,now think about that no jail no intuition can hold back a determine set of people people are now looking at the wider view not the narrow way but the wide way and the bible says the narrow way would be the way few will take but the wide way leads to destruction
It was absolutely hypocritical of MSNBC, CBS and any sponsors to cower to what was nothing less than intimidation and more likely a not so subtle threat from Jackson and Sharpton.
As of 9:25 p.m. this evening, the official Rainbow Push Coalition website had a total of 88 votes on the question of Imus being fired. 88 votes.
The sponsors of Imus’ show have enjoyed the promotional benefits of it for years and years. OK, they want to “punish” him, pull the ad revenue for 2 weeks and DONATE IT to the Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer.
Only one businessman has shown real “abdominal fortitude” in this situation and that is Fred Lundgren of KCAA-AM radio in San Bernardino (Loma Linda) California. KCAA-AM will begin to air the BEST OF IMUS starting this Monday morning, April 16, 2007 and it is available via Internet (audio and studiocam) via http://www.kcaaradio.com
Anybody who has truly been a listener of Imus, knows he is NOT a hateful or mean man. His grumpiness is part of the schtick and he is in fact a brilliant radio announcer/producer and comic.
The man refers to his own beautiful wife as “that Green ho” because of her interest in matters of environment.
Imus being removed from the public airwaves at the will of a minority of people who could have turned the dial if they didn’t want to hear him is UNAMERICAN and a threat to our First Ammendment rights.
So don’t go looking at a GM dealer for a new or used car. Leave home without your American Express and get your copies made at Office Depot instead of Staples. As for Proctor & Gamble, try Great Value products available at any Wal*Mart and specifically for coffee, you just gotta try Imus Ranch Foods available at selected stores and online at http://www.imusranchfoods.com
Imus Fans unite! Join us at http://www.imusfans.org that redirects you to a Yahoo group accessible with your Yahoo ID!
Links to the KCAA chatroom and a lot more is there