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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 3:58 pm
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.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 4:13 pm
I just can't believe that there has not been more of a backlash ...
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 4:30 pm
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?
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:04 pm
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
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:16 pm
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 ...
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:23 pm
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.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:32 pm
Please do, and I'm glad they had such a good celebration. They had a great season.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:38 pm
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!
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:38 pm
if you haven't already, please send an e-mail to imus expressing your concern about this: eek, hold on.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:42 pm
better yet send email to Msnbc and tell them to remove his racist ass
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:42 pm
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)
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 5:49 pm
I have no words that I can say here. But it's always good to have bigottedness out in the open.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 6:04 pm
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??
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 6:26 pm
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.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 8:41 pm
He apologized for "nappy headed hos" but not for "jigaboos vs. wannabees???"
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:20 pm
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.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 10:21 pm
oh what i realllllly found offensive is when he referred to the Tennessee girls all as "cuties". That guy was just all round offensive.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 5:31 am
Yes it is dialogue from a movie. Still doesn't make it right for him to call anyone a jigaboo. Eeyore who is "they"??
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 7:17 am
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.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 7:24 am
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.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 7:37 am
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.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 9:33 am
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.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, April 07, 2007 - 10:07 am
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.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 9:01 am
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.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 9:10 am
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.
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