Don Imus, sticks his foot in his mouth...

itsbob

I bowl overhand
Nupe2 said:
Are you referring to Mayor Nagin?

The term "Chocolate City" was used for years in referring to the District of Columbia. Just curious why you think that term is racist. Are you just referring to Mayor Nagin's use of the term or the term itself? I always understood it to be a descriptive term for the D.C. given the majority of the population was Black. It had nothing to do with Black or White racism....just a descriptive term. :shrug:
Calling any city a chocalate city is saying to me that they want it to be a black town, get the whitey out of our city. THAT is racist, and this is wat racism is, perception.. Someone perceived Nappy Headed Ho as Racist, so I should be ok if I percieve Chocolate City as Racist.. nobody can tell me what I do or do not consider racist.
 
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juggy4805

Guest
itsbob said:
Calling any city a chocalate city is saying to me that they want it to be a black town, get the whitey out of our city. THAT is racist, and this is wat racism is, perception.. Someone perceived Nappy Headed Ho as Racist, so I should be ok if I percieve Chocolate City as Racist.. nobody can tell me what I do or do not consider racist.


Come on bob. You cannot sit here and say that those two phrases are the same. If so you are saying calling your mother a nappy headed ho is just like calling her chocolate. Not the same.
 

itsbob

I bowl overhand
juggy4805 said:
Come on bob. You cannot sit here and say that those two phrases are the same. If so you are saying calling your mother a nappy headed ho is just like calling her chocolate. Not the same.
But if the people on TV can tell us what is racist and what isn't, than I reserve the right to do the same, and I'm saying Chocolate City was racist.. moreso then Macaca... or nappy headed ho..
 

Qurious

Im On 1.
appendixqh said:
Why do you make this a black - white, you - them, thing? Black people coined the term Nappy, and I would have to guess they can be credited with the word "Ho" too. (not refering to the Santa Clause Ho-Ho-Ho, but the street term Ho) So, when words that you say are racist and derrogatory are created by the very group of people that take offense if another groups repeats those words...I get confused. Somehow, I was told this was America, a united group of people with ONE dictionary! Apparently I was wrong, and now must find what words are appropriate in a Black or White dictionary. What a PITA! :jameo:

I see somebody doesn't know the history of the whites trying to colonize and civilize every group of people that they deemed savages....but I digress. :rolleyes:

Nappyheaded was never a term of endearment it was invented and used to degrade blacks. Africans were not aware there was anything wrong with their hair texture until they were introuduced to the concept by the Europeans.....we were proud of our hair texture which is why we braided it, locked it. etc......then all of a sudden when the white man called us nappy headed and told us that the texture is not conducive to a civilized society we invented ways to make our hair straight to assimilate. Now the term nappyhead may not carry as much weight as the n-word but it's just as damaging to the self esteem of blacks. Otherwise we wouldn't go to the extremes that we do to have straight hair like white people....I'm excluding those who have naturally straight hair or "good" hair.

I don't remember the slave master smiling while calling the black women nappy headed or pick a ninnies....Unless I'm wrong.

The point everyone is missing is this man insulted young black students...not a group of video vixens or a group of prostitutes. These are young women who are pursuing a higher education who happen to be athletes...so is it ok to insult children and athletes? Or wait it was a joke, so it's ok to make jokes about our children and we shouldn't be mad we should chuck it up....imagine if Ahmad Rashad or Brian Gumble had called a group of white female college athletes a bunch of stringy haired tramps....do you think the white people would just laugh it off....tell each other to grow a thicker skin....cite the fact that white comedians make jokes about blacks all the time, tell each other oh we disrespect ourselves by calling each other cracker and slut etc...so that's why blacks disrespect us......

sleep on this.
 

Pete

Repete
Qurious said:
I see somebody doesn't know the history of the whites trying to colonize and civilize every group of people that they deemed savages....but I digress. :rolleyes:

Nappyheaded was never a term of endearment it was invented and used to degrade blacks. Africans were not aware there was anything wrong with their hair texture until they were introuduced to the concept by the Europeans.....we were proud of our hair texture which is why we braided it, locked it. etc......then all of a sudden when the white man called us nappy headed and told us that the texture is not conducive to a civilized society we invented ways to make our hair straight to assimilate. Now the term nappyhead may not carry as much weight as the n-word but it's just as damaging to the self esteem of blacks. Otherwise we wouldn't go to the extremes that we do to have straight hair like white people....I'm excluding those who have naturally straight hair or "good" hair.

I don't remember the slave master smiling while calling the black women nappy headed or pick a ninnies....Unless I'm wrong.

The point everyone is missing is this man insulted young black students...not a group of video vixens or a group of prostitutes. These are young women who are pursuing a higher education who happen to be athletes...so is it ok to insult children and athletes? Or wait it was a joke, so it's ok to make jokes about our children and we shouldn't be mad we should chuck it up....imagine if Ahmad Rashad or Brian Gumble had called a group of white female college athletes a bunch of stringy haired tramps....do you think the white people would just laugh it off....tell each other to grow a thicker skin....cite the fact that white comedians make jokes about blacks all the time, tell each other oh we disrespect ourselves by calling each other cracker and slut etc...so that's why blacks disrespect us......

sleep on this.
Don Imus 04-10-2007 04:38 PM Watch your back. - Qurious.

You gonna do a drive by and shoot me? Buss a cap in ma ass? If you don't like the stereotype why would you send gangsta bullchit like this and perpetuate it?

Foo
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
That's two...

Qurious said:
The point everyone is missing is this man insulted young black students...not a group of video vixens or a group of prostitutes. These are young women who are pursuing a higher education who happen to be athletes...so is it ok to insult children and athletes? Or wait it was a joke, so it's ok to make jokes about our children and we shouldn't be mad we should chuck it up....imagine if Ahmad Rashad or Brian Gumble had called a group of white female college athletes a bunch of stringy haired tramps....do you think the white people would just laugh it off....tell each other to grow a thicker skin....cite the fact that white comedians make jokes about blacks all the time, tell each other oh we disrespect ourselves by calling each other cracker and slut etc...so that's why blacks disrespect us......

sleep on this.


...good points from you today.
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
Patron
Qurious said:
Nappyheaded was never a term of endearment it was invented and used to degrade blacks.
The only times, before Imus, I ever heard someone call someone else "nappy headed", it was a black person. And they used it in a teasing manner that I took for endearment. "Looka here, you nappy headed fool!"

So either you're full of it, or nobody got the memo out to the "black community". Strike one.

Otherwise we wouldn't go to the extremes that we do to have straight hair like white people....I'm excluding those who have naturally straight hair or "good" hair.
Ever hear of a white woman getting a perm or cornrows? Strike two.

imagine if Ahmad Rashad or Brian Gumble had called a group of white female college athletes a bunch of stringy haired tramps
Rashad and Gumbel are in a different class than Imus - they are respected commentators and journalists. A better comparison would be for Dave Chappelle to call an all-white women's athletic team a bunch of stringy haired tramps. White people would laugh and not think a thing of it.

Strike three - you're out.
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
Patron
Nupe2 said:
The term "Chocolate City" was used for years in referring to the District of Columbia. Just curious why you think that term is racist. Are you just referring to Mayor Nagin's use of the term or the term itself? I always understood it to be a descriptive term for the D.C. given the majority of the population was Black. It had nothing to do with Black or White racism....just a descriptive term. :shrug:
Flip it around. What if the mayor of Biloxi said that his city would be a "Vanilla City" again? What would you infer he meant by that, and would it be considered offensive?
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
Yep...

vraiblonde said:
Flip it around. What if the mayor of Biloxi said that his city would be a "Vanilla City" again? What would you infer he meant by that, and would it be considered offensive?


...he'd be in the penalty box next to Don pleading tolerance from Reverend Al.
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
That's a good...

vraiblonde said:
Rashad and Gumbel are in a different class than Imus - they are respected commentators and journalists. A better comparison would be for Dave Chappelle to call an all-white women's athletic team a bunch of stringy haired tramps. White people would laugh and not think a thing of it. .

...point there. Lord knows Chappele has gotten away with more than Imus ever dreamed of and Gumble and Rashad are not shock jocks.
 

Club'nBabySeals

Where are my pants?
Pete said:
Don Imus 04-10-2007 04:38 PM Watch your back. - Qurious.

You gonna do a drive by and shoot me? Buss a cap in ma ass? If you don't like the stereotype why would you send gangsta bullchit like this and perpetuate it?

Foo



:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:


You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Pete again.
 

protectmd

New Member
You know, its like this...

Honestly nobody cares what he said. He didn't violate any FCC regulations and restrictions, its not like the radio station was fined. He said nothing worse than what is said on WPGC 95.5 or WKYS 93.9

The FCC would never make a restriction against "questionable" phrases and words like that becuase it would be violating free speech and just think of all of the violations that people would call in on radio stations that are primarily black? Or even other white radio stations. Anything remotely offensive would be ripped off of the air.

I thought thats why we had XM radio. So that I could pay to hear people cuss. I could pay to hear curse words like the F word, and anything else that came over the airwaves, broadcasted high above the planet free from Federal Chinese Communism that restricts the things i want to listen to. Thats why Howard Stern went to XM. So he can do whatever he wants with the airwaves and he wont' have to worry about the feds raiding his pad. If the people of Montana want to have a radio show talking about how evil the federal government is, they can. If the people of PG county want to listen to how guns cause violence then they can. If K Rock in NY wants to talk about how music needs to be more satanic then guess what! They can!

If I made a comment about how dirty Bob Marleys hair was on the air, would I get into trouble for it? After all, he does have dreadlocks, and doesn't believe in bathing it.
 

AndyMarquisLIVE

New Member
protectmd said:
You know, its like this...

Honestly nobody cares what he said.
OK, I'm keeping it real guys and gals, Don Imus waddles his mouth for 4 hours and
i can hardkt undestand what he said. He said that and I totally overlooked it. The I-Man is good for his actions, and I still admire Mr. Imus for all hes done for those chuldren at the ranch. Children who don'tknow what hope feels like living normal for just one day.

What's "Nappy headed hos" done? :popcorn:
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
Well...

AndyMarquisLIVE said:
OK, I'm keeping it real guys and gals, Don Imus waddles his mouth for 4 hours and
i can hardkt undestand what he said. He said that and I totally overlooked it. The I-Man is good for his actions, and I still admire Mr. Imus for all hes done for those chuldren at the ranch. Children who don'tknow what hope feels like living normal for just one day.

What's "Nappy headed hos" done? :popcorn:


...for one thing, they get to be at the center of a national media storm and public anger about what a grouchy, old chock jock said instead of reveling in their accomplishments on the basketball court.

You can polish the Imus turd, but the truth is the ranch is his wife's gig, not his and, if it was all him, that doesn't simply make what he says OK. He has free speech and people have the same right to object to what he says.

If you'd like to know a bit more about 'Rancher' Don, Mike Wilbon, who normally gets on my nerves reflexively whining about race in issues where there is none, has something to say today;


If calling the Rutgers women's basketball players "nappy-headed hos" was the first deplorable and offensive utterance out of shock jock Don Imus's mouth, there probably wouldn't be a national firestorm over his reprehensible characterization. If this was some rare event, then there wouldn't be organizations lining up to demand he be fired. If this was the first time, or second, or 10th, probably Imus wouldn't have been suspended for two weeks from his syndicated radio show, which is simulcast on MSNBC.

The bottom line is Imus doesn't work in a vacuum. His position says as much about his bosses and audience as it does about him.
 

awpitt

Main Streeter
protectmd said:
You know, its like this...

Honestly nobody cares what he said. He didn't violate any FCC regulations and restrictions, its not like the radio station was fined. He said nothing worse than what is said on WPGC 95.5 or WKYS 93.9

The FCC would never make a restriction against "questionable" phrases and words like that becuase it would be violating free speech and just think of all of the violations that people would call in on radio stations that are primarily black? Or even other white radio stations. Anything remotely offensive would be ripped off of the air.

I thought thats why we had XM radio. So that I could pay to hear people cuss. I could pay to hear curse words like the F word, and anything else that came over the airwaves, broadcasted high above the planet free from Federal Chinese Communism that restricts the things i want to listen to. Thats why Howard Stern went to XM. So he can do whatever he wants with the airwaves and he wont' have to worry about the feds raiding his pad. If the people of Montana want to have a radio show talking about how evil the federal government is, they can. If the people of PG county want to listen to how guns cause violence then they can. If K Rock in NY wants to talk about how music needs to be more satanic then guess what! They can!

If I made a comment about how dirty Bob Marleys hair was on the air, would I get into trouble for it? After all, he does have dreadlocks, and doesn't believe in bathing it.



Actually, Stern is on Sirius, not XM.
 
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