Letters to the Editor
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Amazing how some people want to overlook the basic point 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...