I have to agree with you completely on this one.

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Originally Posted by garysher
That's my point - why was there no "large outpouring" by white people?

Why did nobody take "White Men Can't Jump " as a racial slur which will scar them for life??

Truth is most white men I know would readily agree with that statement! Isn't it better if we learn to take a joke and make a joke about our stereotypical differences, instead of constantly looking for reasons to lambast other people?

YUP!

Same question running through my head. Imus is honestly a good guy...I've been listening to his show on the way to work for a quite some time now...

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will only accept his firing as an apology. Horrible.

It's too bad people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have so much influence and power. Listen to a rap song - you will lose count of how many times the word "nigger" is used. But, that's OK - right?

Uh, read the article. That's EXACTLY what the writer is talking about. The way this was largely ignored by mainstream media.

No, it isn't.

"
Nonetheless, the inevitable backlash against the backlash has begun. (Take a look at the responses on MSNBC.com to Al Roker’s calling for Imus’s removal or resignation.) Imus’s supporters and those who merely believe this controversy—and whining, they say—has gone on for too long have started to argue that Imus is being crucified. They say too much is being made of this by blacks who exploit victimization. They charge Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for hypocrisy over their own insensitive remarks in the past. Indeed, Imus himself said on his radio show on Tuesday that he would stop apologizing at some point and start attacking those who attack him. Clearly, contrition has its limits.
The mainstream media is making much of the fact that hip-hop and rap also use demeaning terms to describe women. (“That phrase didn’t originate in the white community, it originated in the black community,” said Imus lamely of his most recent slur.) But most of the press had no idea that Essence magazine, the leading magazine among black women readers, as well as all-female Spelman College, a historically black school, have led a campaign directed at empowering women and listeners of rap music to address offensive images of women in music for years. Most journalists don’t know about the campaign because, typically, the mainstream media hasn’t covered it."

The Ugly Truth About Imus, Power and the Press - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com

It was "ignored" because no1 gave a rats *** over what he said back then. Now that Jackson and Sharpton are basicly gods over the media they will attack anyone they find as racist or unwelcoming to them. Jay Severn basicly said that we have handed over the keys to the media to them.

You know what I didn't know......

the Imus show was a comedy show!

lol

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have OFTEN spoken on the use of derogatory terms for both blacks and women on rap recordings. So, no, it's not OK.