Letters to the Editor
deering
Published Letters: 1193 Editor's Choice: 20
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Amazing how some people want to overlook the basic point here...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here](But then it's always easier to put the blame on Sharpton/the black community/rappers than it it to face your own racism.) The reason people are angry over Imus' remarks is that there was no truth to them--or excuse for them. The Rutgers women's team accomplishments are something a white team would be proud of, so why is Imus insulting these girls as if they're gangsta thugs? If a black broadcaster had called the Tennessee team a bunch of "straw-haired skank hookers," you can bet he'd _never_ work in broadcasting again. So, why does Imus get a pass for doing this? Imus has been pulling this "say racist crap, then pretend to be so, so sorry" garbage for a good twenty-five years now. (He was the guy who thought it was hilarious to play "Another One Bites the Dust" when police would find victims during the Atlanta Child Murders case, for example.) Now, it's catching up to him--and about freakin' time. And to you who defend this as humor--humor is funny when it's truthful. Where was the truth in this--unless you think all athletic AAmerican women are secretly hoes and deserve to be insulted because they aren't straight-haired white girls...
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Ain't _that_ the truth...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]>How must it feel to be branded a whore, and to be categorized by a slur about one's hair, rather than have one's athletic abilities recognized, evaluated or admired?<
_Exactly_. Do posters on here really think these women are not going to get grief over this? Rutgers' campus has its fair share of racist knuckleheads as it is, and Imus gave these morons leave to insult them even more. That is what happens when you let racists have unchecked, inaccurate "free speech" for which they are not accountable--everyone else but them suffers the consequences.
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Oh, can the hypocritical self-righteousness, Anonymous...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Rap makes most of its money off of white teenagers. Are you going to demand _they_ clean up their act? Thought not...
2) And why is "coarsening our national discourse" okay when white, well-off winger pundits do it regularly to even more damaging effect. Or doesn't that stuff matter because they are saying what some ignorant white people want to hear to confirm their "superiority?"
3) And what is the difference between Sharpton and _any_ of the white fixers/power-brokers who knock heads behind the scenes to make things happen or promote a cause. People like you hate him because he is a voice for people who normally would be ignored by TPTB--and he can work that game as well as anyone out there.
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Hoo, boy...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]>the wave of relentless, knee-jerk political correctness that has left us all living in terror that some repressed bit of cultural insensitivity or, worse, an offhand remark misinterpreted by the PC police (such as the use of the word 'niggardly') will leave us ostracized and labeled as a racist/homophobe/antisemite/misogynist, etc. ad. inf.<
Yeah, right--this whole country has ground to a total halt because guys like you are cowering under your beds afraid to speak. So, it's okay if achieving young black women are called whores so long as white guys get to be free to insult whomever they like? Free speech doesn't mean it's okay to shout "fire" in a crowded theater. And your right to free speech ends at the point you infringe on my right to be treated as an equal. Dick Gregory noted back in the day that if his kids hit white folks stupid enough to call them the n-word, he wouldn't punish the kids--they were letting those folks know they couldn't automatically take out their racial mental problems on whomever they felt like. It's time folks like Imus learned the same lesson.
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You've got one helluva nerve, Sugarman
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who are you to tell these women how they should feel and respond? That's some big noise from someone who wasn't called a whore and a jigaboo by a national figure and who hasn't been put under an unwanted 24/7 spotlight. Why don't you admit it--you think they should have acted like this stuff didn't bother them one bit. That way, all this would get swept under the rug and Imus would be free to pull this mess again. It's easy to have "balls" when you aren't the one in the spotlight or who has anything at stake, right? Coward.
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No, Sandra....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]>And one more strike and he's out.<
Un-uh. His game needs to be over. He's been saying crap like this for a good twenty years and has been skating for far too long. He was the guy who thought it was funny to play "Another One Bites the Dust" as victims of the Atlanta Child murderer were turning up. He thought it was a laff riot at his first broadcast gig to host an "Eldridge Cleaver lookalike" contest--first prize being a week in jail. (That little stunt got him canned, too.) Black folks are angry because this guy has gotten away with racism on a grand scale without consequence--and he's been able to do so because he's never paid the price. It's past time he did.
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Oh, brother...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]>eat shit, white bitch. where are the black people on this thread? <
Er...I _am_ African-American, genius. :)
>*I* a white man have to represent YOUR race?<
God, I hope not...
>with my "knowledge" limited to family members? deering, NEVER use the "j" word. i told you that before. or ARE you ACTUAL Klan?<
Since I'm not a coward, that keeps me from Klan membership right there...:).