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I dunno --I think there's a huge double standard -----and I think any punishment is too much ---I dunno ---like yeah --rap music ---Dave Chapelle ----if we are all equal --we should all be able to say the same things ---------------yeah --maybe rap music and Chapelle's statements and insults --or racial slurrs ---are in jest ----but it wasn't like Don Imus was YELLING --or DAMNING these women to hell eternal ---he was being a wise ass --tongue in cheek --smirk smirk -carry on ---trying to be FUNNY ---kinda like Chapelle --------seriously ---if Dave Chapelle called some chick a "nappy headed ho" ---in a sketch/skit ------do you think anyone would give a crap? ---



and yeah ---what the hell is "nappy-headed" ---anyways?

hey thanks for the answer ---I honestly have never heard that description in my life ---

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Originally Posted by dreamer

hey thanks for the answer ---I honestly have never heard that description in my life ---

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LOL I remember when Ice Cube came out with a song called "The Nappy Dugout" it took me awhile to figure out what the hell he was talking about.

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Originally Posted by Unisex

Nappy here is when a persons here is of a wool like texture as seen on sheep. The hair is so thick that the average comb may not be able to make a full sweep through. Mostly Africans or decedents of africans have this type of hair. It's generally portrayed as being a negative in white society. And Since it's seen as a negative, calling someone nappy headed is grounds of disrespect. Trust, if someone outside of the urban community was vocal about that in person, they get their asses whooped.

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Are you genuinely offended by this? Why do you care about some stupid joke an old crypt keeper, that no one listens to, made?

I always say, Speak your mind, but mind your speech. This isn't a first amendment issue, at all. He has the right of free speech and he used it. This is over the consequences of his use of that right. He was given the privilege of using the airwaves to express himself and in my opinion, he badly abused that privilege. Now other people get to use their right to free speech to express their disgust at his comments and his bosses are listening. If he gets fired, as I think he should, its an economic issue, not a first amendment one. He can still say whatever he wants. He just won't get paid to do so or have the same lofty platform to shout from. He can spout his unfunny bigotry from a bar stool, not a broadcast booth.

FK

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Nappy here is when a persons here is of a wool like texture as seen on sheep. The hair is so thick that the average comb may not be able to make a full sweep through.

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Thanks for explaining that.
Over here, a "nappy" is something you wrap around a baby's arse.

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Originally Posted by Mac_Hine

Are far as Imus moving to satellite, why would they offer him anything? His ratings are in the toilet

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You don't know what you are talking about. From the nytimes:


Mr. Imus is one of the most popular radio hosts in the country, with millions of daily listeners on more than 70 stations around the country. The television simulcast of his show on MSNBC is surging in the ratings — “Imus in the Morning,” which the network simulcasts with the New York radio station WFAN, gained 100,000 viewers in the last year, for an average daily total of 358,000, according to Nielsen estimates.

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Originally Posted by Quinn

For what it's worth, here's my assessment of this drama's current main players:

1) Don Imus: a complete tool.
2) Jesse jackson: another complete tool.
3) Al Sharpton: yet another complete tool.

That about sums it up.

-Quinn

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Co-sign.

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Originally Posted by Unisex

Huh? Of course we're the offended. It's a term that everyone in the community is offended by. It's not just the term though. It's the fact that he was able to make the statement, but when a Black or Hispanic American wants to make a statement about Caucasian people for profit, it's immediately shunt and censored.

If you've never heard or listen to Paul Mooney's Race CD. People need to listen to it. It's 10 years old, But it paints that exact picture of what's going on today.

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Getting worked up about it is just making it worse. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are turning an unfunny, throw away comment made by some asshole windbag into a media circus for their own political benefit.

Best thing to do is just turn off the radio if you don't like what he says.

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Originally Posted by Unisex

Huh? Of course we're the offended. It's a term that everyone in the community is offended by. It's not just the term though. It's the fact that he was able to make the statement, but when a Black or Hispanic American wants to make a statement about Caucasian people for profit, it's immediately shunt and censored.

If you've never heard or listen to Paul Mooney's Race CD. People need to listen to it. It's 10 years old, But it paints that exact picture of what's going on today.

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Dude, can you please tell me when a black person wanted to make a statement about Caucasian people for profit and it was immediately shunt and censored? From my understanding, this is the most common way a black person can make profit by making a statement about a caucasian person.

Remember the Dave Chapelle skit where he went back in time with the Time Haters and shot a slave master and said he'd do it every episode if he could? Do you think the reverse could happen?

Are you aware of the term "The man's holding me down." You think this would work in the reverse?

I'm not defending Imus, but I think what you said was hugely inaccurate. Infact, I'd be very interested to hear of a black person who made a statement that was censored for being offensive to white people. I think that would have to be a skit in itself. Did you watch the black guy who went on Fox News and started saying black people offended him? That was comedy.