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Retired
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07-11-2001

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
Totally agree, LT. Disgusting.

Rutgers is in the next town. People here are not happy with Imus' bigoted remarks as people everywhere should be. There is something seriously wrong with that man.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
I just can't believe that there has not been more of a backlash ...

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 4:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I never even heard about it until Ladytex posted about it in N & V and I did a search on MSNBC. That's how little attention it has received in the media. That's seriously messed up. What a terrible thing. Why isn't anyone reporting it?

Retired
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07-11-2001

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
It's headlines here along with a very nice story about the day-long celebration Rutgers had for the women (scroll down a bit)

Link

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Too bad that story had to be the headline instead of the day long celebration ... Imus has a reputation of being a bigot, but this one takes the cake ...

Retired
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07-11-2001

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
I agree. I will keep you posted if there are any follow up stories in the paper. Looks like the team had a great celebration.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Please do, and I'm glad they had such a good celebration. They had a great season.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I cant believe this isnt getting more press! If it wasnt for LT I wouldnt have heard about it!

I cant believe what he said!! This should have been front page stuff like Michael Richards! The J word he said is right up there with the N word. What a piece of crap he is!

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
if you haven't already, please send an e-mail to imus expressing your concern about this:

eek, hold on.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
better yet send email to Msnbc and tell them to remove his racist ass

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
darn, why do i keep getting my e-mail? pamy the e-mail address was from the msnbc website. (well was supposed to be, but i messed up).

eta: i copied and pasted the msnbc e-mail addy from my address book. for some reason that link sent you to my e-mail (the one sent to him/msnbc)

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I have no words that I can say here. But it's always good to have bigottedness out in the open.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Brutal. Amazing that they can go after Kramer with a vengeance, but let Imus get away with that crap. They should ALL be made accountable for that biggotry.

And who was the schmoe who used the word homosexual slur??

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I agree it is good to have it out in the open for all to view. At the same time, it's a sad comment that "celebrities" can say this sort of stuff and still retain some measure of popularity with many Americans.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
He apologized for "nappy headed hos" but not for "jigaboos vs. wannabees???"

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
Didnt he quote a movie? some dialogue from a movie?

I couldnt figure out what he was going on about and then it struck me he was saying slang.

Any chance he didnt know that the slang was offensive?

Not sure how anyone could think Jigaboo would be 'fine'.

That guy needs to be pulled off the air if he is unreliable and nonprofessional.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
oh what i realllllly found offensive is when he referred to the Tennessee girls all as "cuties". That guy was just all round offensive.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 5:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Yes it is dialogue from a movie. Still doesn't make it right for him to call anyone a jigaboo.

Eeyore who is "they"??

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
there is no way he didn't know it was offensive. he's made these types of comments before. he was almost as bad when he was blasting Sen. Clinton for going to speak at a Black church. His producer is just as bad, and how msnbc can continue to broadcast his radio show on their station is beyond me.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 7:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I'm not at all familiar with the Imus program and I know now I don't want to be. I don't understand how MSNBC can keep airing that also, especially knowing he has made similiar comments in the past. It's ugly.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 7:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Imus has made racial comments (IMO) all through his radio and tv talk show career. I'm sure he knew at some level it was offensive.

This is how insidious racism can be. At the moment he says it, it doesn't occur to him that there is anything wrong with it. Then when pointed out, he either apologizes to keep his job, or because someone has 'educated' him.

This is the kind of lack of sensitivity that comes from having grown up with racism; and the very kind of thing that needs to be addressed again and again until the norm is sensitivity and respect without having to think about it.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
As I said before it's bad enough that someone will say these things. It is even worse that there seem to be enough Americans that either agree with him or don't care that they continue to support him by listening to his show and allow him to make a living out of it.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 10:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
exactly and that's one of the reasons that I get so bent out of shape when people seem to suggest that racism is not an issue anymore.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 9:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
This day in Black History:

April 8, 1974 - Henry Aaron hits homerun number 715 to break Babe Ruth's record

April 8, 1975 - Frank Robinson became the first Black manager of a Major League Baseball team.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I remember Hank Aaron hitting that homerun! I wish his experience at the time had been as wonderful as my memory of the moment. I was 11 or so, and had no idea he was enduring such racist hatemongering. Hank's a class act.