They spewed this on April 4th. I wonder if rappers are high-fiving now. Imus called women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" On the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, host Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team, which is comprised of eight African-American and two white players, as "nappy-headed hos" immediately after the show's executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, called the team "hard-core hos." Later, former Imus sports announcer Sid Rosenberg, who was filling in for sportscaster Chris Carlin, said: "The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the [National Basketball Association's] Toronto Raptors." McGuirk referred to the NCAA women's basketball championship game between Rutgers and Tennessee as a "Spike Lee thing," adding, "The Jigaboos vs. The Wannabees -- that movie that he had." McGuirk was presumably referring to Lee's 1988 film, School Daze (Sony Pictures), though co-host Charles McCord misidentified it as "Do the Right Thing" (Criterion, June 1989). In a June 2, 1991, review of Lee's Jungle Fever (Universal Pictures), The New York Times described the rivalry depicted in School Daze: "School Daze," his 1988 satire on an all-black college similar to his own alma mater, Morehouse, turned the friction centered on color into a pointed burlesque. The college's women divided into two camps, the dark "Jigaboos" and the fair "Wannabees," who taunted each other in one scene with the epithets "pickaninny," "Barbie doll," "tar baby" and "high-yellow heifer." Rosenberg's comparison of the Rutgers women's basketball team to the Raptors recalled comments he made in June 2001 about Venus and Serena Williams, two African-American female professional tennis players. According to a November 20, 2001, Newsday article, Rosenberg said on the air: "One time, a friend, he says to me, 'Listen, one of these days you're gonna see Venus and Serena Williams in Playboy.' I said, 'You've got a better shot at National Geographic.' " Rosenberg also referred to Venus Williams as an "animal." Media Matters for America noted those comments when Rosenberg alluded to them on the March 28 edition of Imus. Also, on the March 30 edition of Public Broadcasting Service's The Charlie Rose Show, regarding the NCAA "March Madness" basketball tournament, host Charlie Rose asked CBS sportscaster Billy Packer: "Do you need a runner this Final Four? Because I could jump on a plane and I could be there." Packer replied: "You always f*g out on that one for me. ... [Y]ou always say, 'Oh yeah, I'm going to be the runner,' then you never show up." In 2000, as noted by an article on ESPN.com, Packer made comments that were viewed as disparaging to women, when he said, "Since when do we let women control who gets into a men's basketball game? Why don't you go find a women's game to let people into?" Also, as noted in a March 4, 1996, article in The Washington Post, Packer "describ[ed] Georgetown guard Allen Iverson as a 'tough monkey' during the Hoyas' nationally televised game against Villanova" during that year's NCAA tournament. Packer later apologized for both comments. From the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning: IMUS: So, I watched the basketball game last night between -- a little bit of Rutgers and Tennessee, the women's final. ROSENBERG: Yeah, Tennessee won last night -- seventh championship for [Tennessee coach] Pat Summitt, I-Man. They beat Rutgers by 13 points. 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. McGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing. IMUS: Yeah. McGUIRK: The Jigaboos vs. the Wannabes -- that movie that he had. IMUS: Yeah, it was a tough -- McCORD: Do The Right Thing. McGUIRK: Yeah, yeah, yeah. IMUS: I don't know if I'd have wanted to beat Rutgers or not, but they did, right? ROSENBERG: It was a tough watch. The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors. IMUS: Well, I guess, yeah. RUFFINO: Only tougher. McGUIRK: The [Memphis] Grizzlies would be more appropriate. From the March 30 edition of PBS' Charlie Rose: ROSE: Do you need a runner this Final Four? Because I could jump on a plane, and I could be there. PACKER: You always f*g out on that one for me. You know, you never -- you know, you always say, "Oh yeah, I'm going to be the runner," then you never show up. But I'm sure they can find a place for you. You've got all the connections in the world. You can go ahead and be a runner any place you want to. —R.C. http://mediamatters.org/items/200704040011
Ah, yer kinda WRONG on **BOTH** counts, effendi..... Not merely a "shithead".... But an UNABASHED, ANALLY-RETENTIVE SCREWBALL SHITHEAD! And NOT an "unavowed bigot".... But an AVOWED, CARD-CARRYING, FLAG-WAVING ASSHOLE BIGOT! Just to set things STRAIGHT for the RECORD, m8's OpinionsCartoonStudios@yahoo.co.uk
Imus should meet the "exact" same fate. And Al Sharpton is planning a protest if he doesn't happen by next Friday! Imus admitted to being a racist on 60 Minutes a few years ago. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2825242 Albany declines to renew Richardson's contract ALBANY, N.Y. -- The Albany Patroons didn't renew Micheal Ray Richardson's coaching contract Wednesday following his suspension for alleged anti-gay and anti-Semitic remarks. The former NBA player was suspended for the team's last two Continental Basketball Association playoff games on March 28, a day after he told the Times Union of Albany that he had "big-time Jew lawyers'' working for him. The coach yelled at hecklers during the first playoff game, using a profanity and gay slur. "We had spoken prior to all this hoopla. He had been negotiating with other teams," Patroons general manager James Coyne said Wednesday. "We pretty much agreed earlier on he wouldn't be coming back to the CBA." However, Richardson's lawyer said the suspension has put his client's entire career in jeopardy, including other coaching opportunities. "Now all the sudden he gets his contract canceled," attorney John Aretakis said. Richardson had been expected to coach for Coyne in the upcoming U.S. Basketball League season that starts in a few weeks, and that's not happening either, he said. "Now he's labeled the rest of his life as anti-Semitic, and he's not," Aretakis said. "He's got two kids who are being raised Jewish. He's got an ex-wife he has a good relationship with who is Jewish." Richardson made the comments in a newspaper interview last week. "I've got big-time lawyers. I've got big-time Jew lawyers," Richardson was quoted as saying. "They got a lot of power in this world, you know what I mean? Which I think is great," Richardson told the Albany Times Union. "I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish [people]. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people." The team issued an apology, with Patroons owner and CBA chairman Ben Fernandez saying the league will not tolerate bigots. Richardson said he apologized to the hecklers after the game and to anyone who was offended by his other quoted remarks. "I am not anti-Semitic," he said. "I was giving compliments. It's like saying the NBA is 85 percent black." Aretakis drafted a lawsuit he said he'll file Friday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan against the Hearst Corp. and Times Union sports columnist Brian Ettkin, claiming defamation and slander. He said Richardson's epithet to the hecklers, while a poor choice of words, is commonly used by many men who, like Richardson, are not homophobic. Times Union managing editor Mary Fran Gleason declined to comment. Richardson was the fourth overall pick in the 1978 draft. He joined the NBA out of Montana and played eight seasons with the New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors and New Jersey Nets. His NBA career ended because of drug use in 1986, when commissioner David Stern banned Richardson for life after he violated the league's drug policy three times. He said Wednesday he talked with Stern and things are all right with the off-season work he does for the NBA as a community ambassador and for the Knicks. Richardson began his comeback in 1988, joining the ranks of ex-NBA players in European leagues. His right to play in the NBA was restored that year but he stayed in Italy, where he was a leading scorer and fan favorite.
an this from the Bush bashing, America hating, liberal IMUS who supported John Kerry in the last election. He will get a get of jail free card from the liberals and from the black community for sure.
I heard it and Sharpton cut him no slack. The President of Alpha Phi Alpha issued a statement today. DON IMUS MUST GO NOW! Monday, April 9, 2007 Statement of Darryl R. Matthews, Sr. General President (BALTIMORE, Md.) —The Fraternity of Martin Luther King Jr., Justice Thurgood Marshall, Ambassador Andrew Young, and legions of civil rights leaders and workers are outraged at the comments of broadcaster Don Imus and hereby call for his immediate removal from the air—on radio and cable TV. On his radio program recently—which airs on more than 65 radio stations and is simulcast on MSNBC with a reach into more than 80 million homes—Don Imus called members of the Rutgers University Women’s Basketball team “nappy headed hoes.” This is not only an insult, but it is vitriolic hate-speech, which fuels the fire of racial animosity in our country at a time when we should be striving to come together. What’s more, this is not the first time Don Imus has pronounced racial and sexist diatribes. Don Imus’ apology is too little and too late. Alpha Phi Alpha, firmly believes in the protections guaranteed by the First Amendment, however when the public airwaves are used to spew racial hatred and to further divide the nation, we find it our responsibility to take a stand. We condemn this atrocious act and call on all other organizations of goodwill in our community to do the same. We cannot—and will not—stand idly by while others demean people in our race and further the cause of racism. We applaud the National Association of Black Journalists and its leader Bryan Monroe for taking swift action on this matter. The 200,000 college-educated men of black, white, Latino, Asian and other races and ethnic backgrounds inducted into Alpha Phi Alpha will not stand for this, or any other form of racism. Therefore, we call on CBS Radio and CBS Corporation, the parent company of WFAN radio to permanently remove Don Imus from the airwaves and his employ at CBS. We further call on NBC Universal and Microsoft the parent companies of MSNBC TV to remove the simulcast of his program from the MSNBC cable-TV lineup and its affiliated MSNBC Web site. If necessary we will speak with more than just our feet on the pavement—but with the absence of our dollars with ALL of your advertisers and their products. Public companies such as CBS, NBC and Microsoft must take a meaningful position on matters as critical as this one. Anything short of Imus’ removal is a slap in the face to the millions of Americans—whether black, white, male or female—who are the very consumers who keep these companies prosperous. Alpha Phi Alpha has always been at the forefront of national issues affecting mankind. Whether it was our brother Thurgood Marshall leading the effort in Brown v. Board of Education to eradicate racism and discrimination in American society; or our Brother Martin Luther King Jr. working to end poverty and promote equal access to the ballot box; or whether it had been sending our members off to fight for the “American Way” in every war since World War One through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Alpha Phi Alpha has never turned away from a crisis, and that is why today we step up and call for this action from our corporate citizens. Founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has continued to supply voice and vision to the struggle of African Americans and people of color around the world. The Fraternity has long stood at the forefront of the African-American community's fight for civil rights, through Alpha men such as W.E.B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson, Edward Brooke, Andrew Young, William Gray, Cornel West and many others. The fraternity through its college and alumni chapters serves the community through nearly a thousand chapters in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.
As deplorable as Imus's comments are, don't count on CBS suspending him longer than 2 weeks or so. He probably brings in good ratings for them and in the end in TV land, that's all that matters. Personally, he's a disgusting thing (won't call him human). I saw clips of his run-in with Al Sharpton on ABC's "Nightline," where he appeared to be un-apologetic and unsympathetic. I like how Al had his daughter, a black woman, there to show Imus just how his comments affect women of color. I think the only group Imus should be apologizing to the Rutgers girls themselves. He should take his happy-ass on to New Jersey to their dorm on campus, hell dressed as a girl himself, and allow those ladies to berate him with all kinds of slurs that women of color have been made to endure over time. Then, he'd know how it felt to be a black woman in this country and know how his comments hurt them. But apologizing to the black community in general just lets that A-hole off toooo easy. But that's whats really wrong with this country these days. We have a warped since of beauty and an ignorance of culture.
Hey A-Phi-A, What about this article. I think this person has a point. Let's get some big record lables firing some of today's so-called hip hop artists. http://www.politopics.com/2007/04/imus-apologizes.html
Now i am generally not a violent person but i really cannot fathom how Sharpton or his daughter did not give this guy a good 3 mins Mortal Kombat style brutality. Maybe it's just me, but God knows i wouldn't have allowed the faggot to talk shit on my show the way he did without him calling the cops on me.
And do ya'll know that alot of white people in the news and on talk shows like the view is getting his back and blaming rap music. First of all in upperclass america they say prostitute & madame, in middle class america they say whore, in lower class america they say ho.....so what are they trying to say that if he would of said "Nappy headed prostitutes" that he would of been in the right? No of cousre not, it would of still been prejudice and sexist so they need to quit with it now. And they want to talk about rap being the fore front of this Well alot of these rappers come from lower class black america and they are product of an environment that were built by upperclass white america, they are product of an environment that upperclass white america(the government) refuse to put the amount of money into what they white neighborhoods, they are product of an environment where the working class black american made the less. So if they want talk about who is at the fore front of this it is upperclass white america, there are blacks outr there to blame for the environment but they are not the commander&chief of the blame it's upperclass white america and if they take the time to listen to some of these rap tracks you'll will know rappers know this is as well and don't think when they respond to this assault on them by white people in the media that they won't bring that up so it is smart for them not to continue to go there. Because I think can speak for every black person on this forum and in this country when I say "We MAY!! forgive, but without a question we sure as hell don't forget. BTW: The word in hip hop music has been continually addressed by rappers that they speak in a general sense of truth meaning they are talking people who actually are. Damn every rap song that uses the word ho don't have a label you don't know who they are talking about. DON IMUS didn't generalized he specified, we knew who he was talking about, we knew as they said themselves that they aren't. People need to start getting things right.
Well they just announced that Imus won't be back at NBC, he's been fired. In my opinion this was only because some large advertisors pulled their ads this morning. Otherwise they would have waited for this to either die down or if it would not have died down fired him just at a later point. As far as the entire discussion, the fact that he called them ho's is pretty bad but not as bas as the nappy headed part. Ho just as bitch has become almost an accepted word, especially in the Hip Hop scene, so as much as I hate it I feel that is how it is. If someone at work would call me a bitch to my face I would definitely raise trouble over it, if someone in my social circle would do it I would most likely laugh it off. Double standard?? For sure. Understandable?? I think so. Right thing to do?? Definitely not.
Those women in no way shape or form deserved to be characterized in the fashion. He has a long history of this disgusting behavior. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3082 4/9/07 Racism Is to Be Expected From Don Imus CBS, NBC, media pundits complicit in talk host's bigotry In the wake of the latest racial slur broadcast on Don Imus' show, the question is not whether Imus is a racist—the man, after all, admitted to hiring one of his co-hosts to do "nigger jokes" (60 Minutes, 7/19/98)—but why CBS, NBC and top media pundits seem to feel no embarrassment over associating with his racism. The Imus in the Morning radio show is aired on CBS-owned radio station WFAN, and is syndicated nationally by CBS-owned Westwood One. It is simulcast daily on MSNBC, a cable news channel in which GE subsidiary NBC Universal holds a controlling interest. Top media pundits like Tim Russert, Howard Fineman, Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd are frequent Imus guests. The show has also been a conduit for televised racism and other bigotry for years. FAIR and others have documented numerous instances of Imus and his on-air colleagues expressing overt racism and other forms of bigotry. Imus himself has referred to African-American journalist Gwen Ifill as "a cleaning lady," to New York Times sports reporter Bill Rhoden as "quota hire" and to tennis player Amelie Mauresmo as "a big old homosexual." Imus called Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz a "boner-nosed... beanie-wearing Jewboy," referred to a disabled colleague as "the cripple," and to an Indian men's tennis duo as "Gunga Din and Sambo." In Imus' words, the New York Knicks are "chest-thumping pimps." Imus' on again/off again sidekick Sid Rosenberg was temporarily fired in 2001 for calling tennis player Venus Williams an "animal" and remarking that the Williams sisters—Venus and her tennis player sister Serena—would more likely be featured in National Geographic than in Playboy. Rosenberg insisted to New York's Daily News (6/7/01) that his comments weren't racist, "just zoological." In 2004, MSNBC had to apologize when the rehired Rosenberg referred to Palestinians as "stinking animals." In May 2005, MSNBC let Contessa Brewer out of her short stint as a news reader on Imus' morning show after Imus had made a daily game of crude personal attacks against her, calling her a pig, a skank, dumber than dirt and other similar felicities, all on air. MSNBC claimed they "expressed their displeasure" to the host (New York Post, 5/1/05), while noting that his "humor" was "often brilliant and provocative." In his most recent racist outburst, on April 4, Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos," just moments after sidekick and executive producer Bernard McGuirk (the "nigger jokes" hire) called them "hard-core hos." The Rutgers team, which recently played in the national championship finals, is made up of eight African-American women and two white women. On April 6, Imus issued an apology for the slur of the Rutgers team. It was the latest in a long line of apologies for bigotry on his show. Past apologies have served to take pressure off Imus, but haven't resulted in a change of behavior by the host or his colleagues. Niether has Imus' history of bigotry dissuaded prominent journalists and pundits, more after publicity than principle, from appearing on Imus' show. Friday's show, in addition to Imus' apology, featured an interview with NBC's Meet the Press host Tim Russert. In an exceptional report on April 9, New York Times reporter David Carr noted Imus' history of racism and the parade of media luminaries who have appeared on his show, who have rarely raised questions about the show's bigotry. Carr noted that, even in the aftermath of the latest Imus slurs, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas defended appearing on the show, explaining: "I am going on the show, though. I think if I didn't, it would be posturing. I have been going on the show for quite some time and he occasionally goes over the line." It's time for CBS and NBC to acknowledge that Imus is unlikely to ever rein in his bigotry, that the crude and hateful insults are a key part of his routine: Like the cowboy hat, they provide an air of "edginess" to what is often otherwise a dull exercise in Beltway insider back-scratching. A media company that chooses to run such a show has two choices: It can declare, explicitly or implicitly, that calling people "nappy-headed hos" and "beanie-wearing Jewboys" is an acceptable part of the national discussion. Or it can end its affiliation with said program. The Russerts, Finemans and the like who elect to appear on Imus' show have a similar decision: Are you down with "nigger jokes" or aren't you?
Correction to my previous post... MSNBC decided to cancel the simulcast, CBS his main employer has so far not fired Imus or cancelled the show.
fly girl, i didnt say he wasnt a Registered Republican, i said he was a liberal which is two different things. each party has many philosphies in them.
Oh well... now I know why I am NOT in the news business.... 2nd update to my initial post Now He IS fired from CBS :lol: As stated before probably nothing to do with CBS thinking he was wrong but their fear of loosing money
