Let me be clear on this, black women don't like it when the brothers say it either. Last night as I watched the ongoing coverage from CNN to Fox News, it was disturbing to find many attempting to link the comments directly to rap and hip hop lyrics. Well, that's not my stance! Don't try and excuse his actions; Don Imus is not a rapper and is not a comedienne. He verbally attacked and specifically targeted a group of young women with racist language cemented in a conversation with his sidekick, Sid "I have no original thoughts of my own" Rosenberg.
I keep hearing Imus supporters spout, "what a good guy he is", "how bright and smart" he is, the charitable work he does and so forth. Well, this may be true, in fact, it bolds to ponder why such a charitable, smart and great guy would use a national stage to spew such vulgar and racist references to a group of female college student athletes. He called these young ladies hos-(seemingly prostitutes) - imagine the following: driving to work and listening to the radio, when Imus starts his conversation about the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, and the "I-Man" uses "hard core hos and them so nappy headed hos" to describe players on the Rutgers basketball team. Now, imagine if your daughter is a player on that team.
Ultimately every sound thinking individual is accountable
for his or her own behavior.
