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No excuses for Imus. Dont listen or watch. But do any (most likely all) of these girls listen to hard core rap? Then they've heard far worse. Do they show the same level of outrage? I bet I know the answer to both questions.

Heard an African American writer with an interesting viewpoint on Laura Ingraham this AM. Jason Whitlock. Sorry dont know how to do the little blue letters.

http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html

OOOH! I did it! Yeah me. Interesting read. Not sure I agree with all but stil ......

The thing that is most regretable about the whole thing, is what the Rutgers women did will always be associated with this remark. Whenever their almost miracle finish is discussed in the future, this remark will flash in people's minds. Years from now, the daughters and son's of these women may read about this and see reference to this and wonder "what the...?"

Hopefully nobody will mention it or write about it ever again.

Thanks for posting, Mick. That's a great column from Jason Whitlock - he's right on the money.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have done more to hurt race relations in this country than almost anyone alive today. Both owe their powerful positions to the politics of victimhood. Rather than help solve the real problems that face people of all races, they manufacture these "us vs. them" controversies that do no one any good.

Well, other than keep Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in the headlines.

I think Sharpton and Jackson have blown this WAY out of preportion - and whats more, these two are a couple of the biggest racists pigs alive. Dr. King wanted to keep hope alive - these two want to keep racism alive.

Even worse yet, these two have NO right to take the moral high ground. Both have make incredibly STUPID remarks about whites. Jackson called NYC - "hymietown" in reference to all of the Jews who live there. Sharpton calls whites "interlopers" and Jews as "diamond merchants" - the whole Tawana Brawley mess. These two need to STOP perpetuating racism and use their "positions" in society to do good. Follow Mr. Cosby's lead, you two IDIOTS.

Speaking of Jesse Jackson, now that the Duke "Rape" case has been debunked and the accused declared innocent, has and will Jesse make good on his promise to pay all of the college costs for the accuser to attend college at NCCU? My guess is that he has forgotten it.

I'm not sure why so many national media immediately go to Sharpton and Jackson as spokespersons.
I much rather would like to have heard from the president of the National Association of Black Journalists or perhaps even someone like Leonard Pitts or Nelson George. As former music writers, both could address the use "ho" in rap music as well with thoughtfulness and insight.
Jackson and Sharpton to parachute into wherever the cameras are.

Well, MSNBC had dumped Imus, so that's that.
I never liked him, but it didn't have anything to do with his racial views. The first time I flipped across it one morning and saw this dried up old alcholic fart wearing a cowboy hat I thought it was a rerun of a Saturday Night Live skit.
I've listened a few times but have never found him to be entertaining or enlightening.

You may be right; he may have a face made for radio. But it's his words that have done the most damage.

So are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson now going to apologize to the white Duke lacrosse players for their ugly, nasty, and untrue attacks on national TV and radio?
How can they demand Imus apologize when they're guilty of much worse and they don't have to apologize?

Imus gets paid to be a jerk. This isn't the first incident - so why all of a sudden are Sharpton and Jackson up in arms. And, as Allen pointed out - what do they have to say about the cRappers? Apparently, Snoop Dogg had the answer - he said that when they use the word "ho's" they really mean it - and they really ARE "ho's" - when Imus did, he was talking about innocent college girls - PUULLLLLLLEEEEEASE!!

I'm tired of double standards.

Why is it that Dr. Kamau Kambon can call for the extermination of the entire white race and the "mainstream media" barely reports the story, yet the Imus debacle is front page news?

When did we allow political correctness to trump the truth in this country? When did we become so afraid of demigods such as Sharpton and Jackson that they can say and do whatever they please with total immunity while at the same time vilify who they please?

What is going on here? Why have we let victimology become center stage while ignoring the bigger problems? Do Jesse and Al ever solve any problems or are they simply seeking center stage to further their own personal agendas through the widening of the racial divide? I think the answer is obvious...

The Imus comment, especially coming from a WHITE comedian, was an outrage, but Senator Joe Biden's decription of Barack Obama as "articulate" will live in infamy. When Obama becomes President I can only hope that nobody says anything about him or to him while he is in office so this country can be once again united.