The Don Imus Controversy

[Darksage]

I have my own well-formulated opinion on the entire matter, but I'd like to try not to influence anyone else's ideas, so I'll let you guys post first.

What are your thoughts about Imus' comments about the women's basketball team for Rutgers?
What do you think would be a fair punishment for Imus, that is if you think he deserves a punishment or the current 2-week suspension is unfair?
And finally (what I really want to get into), what do you think about Reverend Al Sharpton's "involvement" in the issue?

[Sharingan]

you mean DON omar?

[Digispirit Virus]

Well, it seems now that Don Imus has been fired...

Um, anyways, My personal opinion on this is that although what he did isn't exactly appropriate, people made too much of a big deal about it. A bunch of me thinks that making a whole ruse of this is merely a means to grab attention. I mean, we hear plenty of slander, and other racist comments in the world around us. If racism was that bad, comedy central wouldn't exist anymore, possibly even adult swim at that. Therefore, my opinion lies at the "Don Imus should have been punished, 2 weeks was enough, but protestors should not have pushed so far to get Imus fired."

[Darksage]

I'm kinda mad that he got fired. who cares what he said? That's just Imus being Imus. He would have said something like that about someone, and the Rutgers team just happened to lose then. It's not like he was hoping that rutgers would lose weeks in advance so he could go on the air in the morning and call then "nappy-headed hos". and, by now, he's got to have a Ph.D in apologizing. He did it at least 7 times, and when you make a mistake, that's all you can really do.

As for Al sharpton, he's such an asshole, it pisses me off SO much. He's a fucking reverend, supposed to be talking about forgiveness, second chances, redemption, and all that. But every time something happens that involves a black person, he gets on TV and yells "PUNISH THEM!!!" for weeks. If the players on the Rutgers team were white, sharpton wouldn't give two shits about what was said. He had his own personal agenda the whole time. he started the whole "boycott Imus" thing, Imus invited Sharpton onto his radio show to talk, but Sharpton says "no, come on my show." I didn't even know Al sharpton had his own radio show, and no one else did, so that was a cheap attempt by him to get a popular figure like Imus to bring some attention to sharpton's show.
And what about Sharpton himself? as if he's never made mistakes? anyone remember the Tawana Brawly case? Was the prosecutor screaming that Sharpton be excommunicated from the church the way Sharpton was screaming that Imus be fired? No. He's such a hypocrite, he has no credibility in my book.

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[L]

A lot of people can't get over racism and use it as an excuse to be stupid, end of story.