WTF?! And people say racism doesn't exist....
So Imus and his producer Sid Rosenburg had a ball making fun of Black women the other day. The women of Rutgers' basketball team were called hardcore hos, nappyheaded hos and even jiggaboos....ON AIR....both TV and RADIO!!
This Rosenberg guy is a TRUE gem. He was fired two times before over offensive on-air comments. He basically called Serena and Venus Williams animals and hinted that they look like the Africans in National Geographic magazine. This time around, he added to Imus' racist nonsense. He described the game, a battle of pretty vs. "rough", as being like a Spike Lee film. He said it was "like the jiggaboos vs. the wannabees". How this was relevant I don't know! Why he said "Do the Right Thing" was the movie in question, I really don't know. It was School Daze butthole!
Catch Imus, and his apology, on Al Sharpton today. If your stations do not carry the syndicated show, you can check it out online. The website is sharptontalk.net and the show runs from 1-4pm. If he isn't fired, I say we boycott MSNBC!!
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This is so stupid. Imus, like Howard Stern, Chris Rock, Steve Harvey, Lisa Lapinellie... all comics say ofensive things about all races. It's not as if Imus is the only funny man out there making jokes of this nature. You don't see Al Sharpton up in arms about Cedric The Entertainer or Chris Rock. The outcry is just as Racist as the comment. In the grand sceme of things, who cares. I don't call my Congressman every time Howard Stern says something Sexist or Chris Rock makes fun of white people. People need to let this go, sooner rather than later.
@ Anonymous...the difference is comics are purposefully poking fun at our differences and race. They are attempting to make serious issues (racism and cultural differences) funny. By doing this, they are allowing us to discuss the obvious. Imus was not doing any of this! He was making fun of how the girls looked and used racial slurs to do so. If Chris Rock, or any comedian, used similar slurs - assuming they existed - to describe Whites or Asians, believe me, he would get a much larger response!
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