Neither Black, Nor White, Just Green
Finally, after more than a week of controversy, Don Imus was fired by CBS from his nationally syndicated talk show. I have to admit when all this first jumped off I was blissfully ignorant as I was on vacation. I was enjoying a family vacation with my husband and 2 of our sons in Florida, but I digress.
When I got home it was all over the media and when I returned to work on Wednesday, I started downloading the reports from the New York Daily News where I get my email alert from daily. Do I read everything, of course not. The news is normally depressing. I skim the headlines just so I'm not totally ignorant of what is happening in the world around me. As of yesterday there were at least 20 stories related to this incident in that newspaper alone. And I read a whole bunch of them.
All I can say is it is sad that in 2007 the nation is still where they are. Yes he was finally fired for calling the Rutgers Womens Basketball team "nappy headed hos" but lets be for real. He thought it was a joke and to him and his regular listeners it was. When those words flew out of his mouth there were men 25-50 who are is regular listeners who laughed and thought it was just hilarious. The politicians who frequent his show thought it was no big deal after all he did eventually apologize for the comment. After all he's not a "bad guy". RIGHT!!
African-Americans were outraged. Rev. Sharpton stepped in. Women of many races were outraged as well. Conspiracy theorists wonder if this was a way to attack 2 of the democrats who have made bids for the White House, Obama who is black and Clinton who is a woman, with on phrase. Even rappers who were blamed for his statement because they use the word ho and bitch in rap lyrics had something to say. I like my rose colored glasses and sadly once again I have been forced to take them off.
The real deal is none of that makes a difference. The bottom line is people listen to him because they like what he says. He says the things that he does cause he knows that it entertains his audience who are faithful regulars. It bothers me less that he said it than the reality that there is a wide NATIONAL audience that was amused by it. Yes he was fired for it but I'm not impressed. His simulcast on WNBC was not dropped because the execs there realized that he is one sick puppy, it was dropped because the like$ of Proctor and Gamble, $taples and other$ $aid we won't pay to adverti$e during that time anymore. He was fired by CB$ for the $ame reason$. Like Ludacris said on his latest CD Release Therapy, "If it don't make dollars then it don't make sense".
Not Black, Nor White, Just Green.
When I got home it was all over the media and when I returned to work on Wednesday, I started downloading the reports from the New York Daily News where I get my email alert from daily. Do I read everything, of course not. The news is normally depressing. I skim the headlines just so I'm not totally ignorant of what is happening in the world around me. As of yesterday there were at least 20 stories related to this incident in that newspaper alone. And I read a whole bunch of them.
All I can say is it is sad that in 2007 the nation is still where they are. Yes he was finally fired for calling the Rutgers Womens Basketball team "nappy headed hos" but lets be for real. He thought it was a joke and to him and his regular listeners it was. When those words flew out of his mouth there were men 25-50 who are is regular listeners who laughed and thought it was just hilarious. The politicians who frequent his show thought it was no big deal after all he did eventually apologize for the comment. After all he's not a "bad guy". RIGHT!!
African-Americans were outraged. Rev. Sharpton stepped in. Women of many races were outraged as well. Conspiracy theorists wonder if this was a way to attack 2 of the democrats who have made bids for the White House, Obama who is black and Clinton who is a woman, with on phrase. Even rappers who were blamed for his statement because they use the word ho and bitch in rap lyrics had something to say. I like my rose colored glasses and sadly once again I have been forced to take them off.
The real deal is none of that makes a difference. The bottom line is people listen to him because they like what he says. He says the things that he does cause he knows that it entertains his audience who are faithful regulars. It bothers me less that he said it than the reality that there is a wide NATIONAL audience that was amused by it. Yes he was fired for it but I'm not impressed. His simulcast on WNBC was not dropped because the execs there realized that he is one sick puppy, it was dropped because the like$ of Proctor and Gamble, $taples and other$ $aid we won't pay to adverti$e during that time anymore. He was fired by CB$ for the $ame reason$. Like Ludacris said on his latest CD Release Therapy, "If it don't make dollars then it don't make sense".
Not Black, Nor White, Just Green.
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