Rutgers Players To Appear On Oprah, Imus Calls Situation Out Of Control
The Rutgers’ women’s basketball team and coach C. Vivian Stringer were scheduled to appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Thursday.
On Imus’ broadcast on Thursday — his annual drive to raise money for children with cancer — the radio host who trades on a curmudgeonly persona called the media “hypocritical” in its coverage of the flap. But he acknowledged it will be hard to continue broadcasting.
“I don’t know if this will be my last radiothon, my suspicion is it will be,” Imus said, adding the situation had become “insane” and “out of control.”
Maybe istead of cancer research he should have been taking up a collection plate.
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On April 12th 2007, Nicky wrote:
I am black and yes it has gotton out of control. This is ridiculous that his comments blew up like this.
Each one of those Rutgers girls has called another black female a “ho” and even joked about having nappy hair, but when a white man joked about it its a big uproar and he is losing jobs all over the place.
Have you seen the picture of Essence Carson. the captain, good gracious she is hideous half man, half gorilla looking.
All Imus was saying is that they rutgers players did not look ladylike. He said the Tennessee girls were cute and some balck girls were on the Tennessee team, so he is not racist his comments were precieved as racist because he is white but when a black man says it its ok?
Rapper degrade females all the time and the females love it and dance to the songs and sing it but we have this.
Yes he should get suspended but it has gotton way out of control and needs to stop. Now Oprah is jumping in on it. He apologised and got suspened it should have ended there.
On April 12th 2007, Castina wrote:
I hear you, Nicky. Hate to put it this way, but you’ve got a point about Essence. But that’s another issue, LOL.
The problem I have with the Imus situation is that he has a history of making much worse comments about Blacks and no one ever does anything.
Why this is the comment that blew up, I don’t know, but he called the largely African-American New York Knicks team “pimps,” he called Venus and Serena Williams “big butted-women who belong in National Geographic.”
He suggested he co-workers find “more Negroes” to make fun of. When’s the last time we were Negro?
I could on and on about comparisions between monkey and Blacks. The man’s been making racist comments on the air since I was toddler and I’m twenty-three now. It’s about time they did something with him. He needs to go, and I wouldn’t be opposed to giving him an ass-whopping for the road.
On April 12th 2007, Nicky wrote:
Someone on CNN raised the point you made Castina.
They said Imus has said much worse in the past but they say the difference is that those comments were directed at public figures and freedom of speech made him get away with that.
However it was the first time he targeted young black female college players and thats where they say he crossed the line.
So bottom line its ok if its a public figure but not ok if its students in college getting an education.
On April 12th 2007, Castina wrote:
Yeah, I heard the CNN take on his previous comments. The logic is ridiculous. A racially charged comment is just that-racist. Whether the person it’s hurled at is a college student or a socialite.
At any rate, this has been a long time coming, it was time for his ass to retire anyway. Hopefully it’ll provoke the hip-hop record execs (mostly White/Jewish dudes) to do something about the lyrics in the industry that’s being funded by their money so that the tired “Rappers Say It So I Can Too” defense can be retired.