Comments on: Imus: Some of His Best Friends Are Black http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/ Rory O'Connor's blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:28:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Terabanitoss http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64549 Mon, 07 May 2007 06:54:17 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64549 Hi all! You are The Best!!! G'night Hi all!
You are The Best!!!
G’night

]]> by: Kent http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64506 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:30:34 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64506 What a farce! Imus is an old jackass, so what? He said something stupid and insensitive, he apologized a hundred times, he got fired. Congratulations, Angry Black People! Your Don Imus Prize should arrive in your mailboxes in a few weeks. You can put it on your mantle next to your O.J. Prize. Meanwhile, all of you fools haven’t done anything to improve the state of race relations in this country except participate in a media circus that, in the end, will accomplish nothing. It won’t change your lives when Imus is off the air. You never even knew who he was before this mess. It’s time for the people in this country to stop behaving like angry mobs and THINK about what is going on! Stand up for common sense and denounce hypocrisy, you sheep! Protect first amendment rights, no matter how much you disagree with a comment or stupid phrase. If he slandered the women of Rutgers, then that’s their fight, not all you bandwagoneers, and DEFINITELY NOT AL SHARPTON’S! Don’t get me started on that idiot. Should Jesse Jackson be forced to step down from his post for saying “hymietown”? Why don’t all of you haters clean up your own houses first before you try to clean up everyone else’s? Thanks for turning a cruel, insensitive attempt at a joke into a really big one, P.C. America. What a farce! Imus is an old jackass, so what? He said something stupid and insensitive, he apologized a hundred times, he got fired. Congratulations, Angry Black People! Your Don Imus Prize should arrive in your mailboxes in a few weeks. You can put it on your mantle next to your O.J. Prize. Meanwhile, all of you fools haven’t done anything to improve the state of race relations in this country except participate in a media circus that, in the end, will accomplish nothing. It won’t change your lives when Imus is off the air. You never even knew who he was before this mess. It’s time for the people in this country to stop behaving like angry mobs and THINK about what is going on! Stand up for common sense and denounce hypocrisy, you sheep! Protect first amendment rights, no matter how much you disagree with a comment or stupid phrase. If he slandered the women of Rutgers, then that’s their fight, not all you bandwagoneers, and DEFINITELY NOT AL SHARPTON’S! Don’t get me started on that idiot. Should Jesse Jackson be forced to step down from his post for saying “hymietown”? Why don’t all of you haters clean up your own houses first before you try to clean up everyone else’s? Thanks for turning a cruel, insensitive attempt at a joke into a really big one, P.C. America.

]]> by: blownawayagain http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64494 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:32:19 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64494 Greggie, I agree. There is a double standard, we need to give a gangsta rapper a nationally syndicated show and Tim Russet and other media big-wigs shouldn't shun him. They should come on the show and laugh at his potty mouth as they talk in-depth about important issues of the day. Certainly, if they can be cohorts with a former coke head, drunk --- they could find something in common with a former drug dealing, pot smoking rapper who makes millions of dollars shocking audiences (just like IMUS) and who also does charity work as well (Snoop Dog comes to mind). Sit back and take some more time to reflect on the double standard idea if you truly have an open mind. Greggie,

I agree.

There is a double standard, we need to give a gangsta rapper a nationally syndicated show and Tim Russet and other media big-wigs shouldn’t shun him. They should come on the show and laugh at his potty mouth as they talk in-depth about important issues of the day.

Certainly, if they can be cohorts with a former coke head, drunk — they could find something in common with a former drug dealing, pot smoking rapper who makes millions of dollars shocking audiences (just like IMUS) and who also does charity work as well (Snoop Dog comes to mind).

Sit back and take some more time to reflect on the double standard idea if you truly have an open mind.

]]> by: I'mdone http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64493 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:16:42 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64493 "You can say it but I cannot?" I propose a national hate speech day because there seem to be a lot of people bothered by the fact that they cannot publicly say the N-word and other forms of hate speech. We need to empathize with these people. It must be so difficult to be forced to hold all of that hate inside.. We must be allowed to be free ... to be free to hate.. who we wish when we wish because ultimately that is what being a free society is all about... That's the lesson that we need to pass on to our children for future generations and that is the lesson that we need to pass on to the world as we spread democracy. If the Iraqis could learn this, they would certainly come closer to reaching our standards for civil society. I could imagine this being McCain’s campaign speech. “You can say it but I cannot?”

I propose a national hate speech day because there seem to be a lot of people bothered by the fact that they cannot publicly say the N-word and other forms of hate speech.

We need to empathize with these people.
It must be so difficult to be forced to hold all of that hate inside..

We must be allowed to be free … to be free to hate.. who we wish when we wish because ultimately that is what being a free society is all about…

That’s the lesson that we need to pass on to our children for future generations and that is the lesson that we need to pass on to the world as we spread democracy.

If the Iraqis could learn this, they would certainly come closer to reaching our standards for civil society.

I could imagine this being McCain’s campaign speech.

]]> by: AS http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64492 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:53:42 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/09/imus-some-of-his-best-friends-are-black/#comment-64492 Who are the largest consumers of rap/hip-hop music... including... Gangsta Rap? And who owns the media corporations that produce RAP music? Blacks are the entertainers but we are not the primary consumers nor are we the owners of our product. But yet we are everything that's wrong with America!!!! These same corporations own IMUS!!!!! Who's really selling and profiting from hate? I think the Rutgers Team needs to bypass IMUS and meet with his show's owners. Take it up the chain to the top. Are they accountable to the public for what they doing to our public airwaves? Rappers don't get to talk to Tim Russet and John Kerry!!!!!! They are shunned by public officials and always used as the example of everything thats wrong with America!!!!!! We are the thugs, criminals and the worst that America has to offer....but IMUS is a good man who did a bad thing? I have freedom of speech but I cannot go to my job and call anybody a "nappy headed hoe". With my position comes responsibility. A shock-jock can say whatever his listeners want to hear on Sirius but not on live tv sitting next to someone who wants to be regarded as a public leader or serious journalist. How different are we really? IMUS thinks he his comparable to gangsta rapper and Tim Russet sits and laughs with him on the show--- how are they so different from the people they condemn? The only difference I see is the difference in power and PRIVILEDGE that they have INHERITED but not a difference in character or substance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who are the largest consumers of rap/hip-hop music… including… Gangsta Rap?

And who owns the media corporations that produce RAP music?

Blacks are the entertainers but we are not the primary consumers nor are we the owners of our product. But yet we are everything that’s wrong with America!!!!

These same corporations own IMUS!!!!!

Who’s really selling and profiting from hate?

I think the Rutgers Team needs to bypass IMUS and meet with his show’s owners. Take it up the chain to the top.

Are they accountable to the public for what they doing to our public airwaves?

Rappers don’t get to talk to Tim Russet and John Kerry!!!!!!

They are shunned by public officials and always used as the example of everything thats wrong with America!!!!!!

We are the thugs, criminals and the worst that America has to offer….but IMUS is a good man who did a bad thing?

I have freedom of speech but I cannot go to my job and call anybody a “nappy headed hoe”. With my position comes responsibility. A shock-jock can say whatever his listeners want to hear on Sirius but not on live tv sitting next to someone who wants to be regarded as a public leader or serious journalist.

How different are we really?

IMUS thinks he his comparable to gangsta rapper and Tim Russet sits and laughs with him on the show— how are they so different from the people they condemn?

The only difference I see is the difference in power and PRIVILEDGE that they have INHERITED but not a difference in character or substance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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