nappy headed ho!

[Mr Earl]

Racial slurs aren't very nice. But is this really a racial slur? I think it's a basketball thing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/.../imus_protests

The poor guy made a joke for crying out loud!

Sharpton and Jackson are hypocrites. They should be spanking the nappy headed rappers like snoop dog butt sniffer.

[blackgang]

But that will never happen because those guys have to have the backing of the Black folks so they have to prove that they are more Racist and Biggoted that the general run of the people that follow them, If not then they would have to get a job.

[Boon Mee]

It's still an insensitive remark.
Watch as sponsors of Imus pull away from him.
It'll be nice to see if the same sponsors also pull away from Puff Daddy, Ludicris and the rest of those rappers too...

[barbaro]

There's a thread called "Should Imus be fired."

I read today that MSNBC dropped his 'simulcast.'

I don't know what that means.

Maybe this will blow over. Maybe not.

I think it will.....

[Boon Mee]

^
CBS will drop him as well but that kind of pond-scum will be picked up by Sirrius or someone.

[Mr Earl]

There's a thread called "Should Imus be fired."

I read today that MSNBC dropped his 'simulcast.'

I don't know what that means.

Maybe this will blow over. Maybe not.

I think it will.....

Ooops! And I looked to see if there was another thread!

I think the more Imus apologizes the less likely it will blow over.
Once these PC nutters smell blood they go into a frenzy.

This is hardly the hateful type of racial slur like Michael Richards popped off.

[Boon Mee]

Well, when the No. 1 rap track is by a new sensation who goes by the name of "Mims." The "song" is "This Is Why I'm Hot." It has topped the charts for the last 15 weeks. Here's a taste of the lyrics that young men and women are cranking up in their cars:

This is why I'm hot
Catch me on the block
Every other day
Another bitch another drop
16 bars, 24 pop
44 songs, nigga gimme what you got . . .
. . . We into big spinners
See my pimping never dragged
Find me wit' different women that you niggas never had
For those who say they know me know I'm focused on ma cream
Player you come between you'd better focus on the beam
I keep it so mean the way you see me lean
And when I say I'm hot my nigga dis is what I mean

What kind of crap is this?
American 'culture' has gone to the dogs...

[Boon Mee]

Let's move down the Billboard list, shall we? The No. 2 rap track in the nation this week is by rappers Bow Wow and R. Kelly (yes, the same R. Kelly who was indicted five years ago on a raft of child-porn charges and is still awaiting trial). The "song" is called "I'm a Flirt," and it's been on the charts for 12 weeks:

Ima b pimpin
I don't be slippin
When it come down to these hos
I don't love em
We don't cuff em
Man that's just the way it goes
I pull up in the Phantom
All the ladies think handsome
Jewelry shining, I stay stuntin'
That's why these niggas can't stand em
Ima chick mag-a-net
And anything fine I'm bag-gin it
And if she got a man, I don't care
10 toes and I wanna be, cause I gotta have it

The final line:

Now the moral of the story is cuff yo chick, 'cause hey,
I'm black, fresh, and I rap, plus I'm rich, and I'm a flirt.

Give me 'Mau Laam' upcountry Issan any day!

[Begbie]

nappy-headed hos.

I guess he thought it was so racist that it would appear to be funny.

[ChiangMai noon]

what does nappy-headed mean?

[man with no head]

It's amusing that Imus gets hauled up to hang on the tree while the rest of them get a free pass to use the same exact words and language.

[man with no head]

what does nappy-headed mean?

Think of Velcro...the fuzzy part.

[El Gibbon]

Imus is a Shock Jock and well known to be one of the best. He's been doing this crap for 15 - 20 years.

An Imus quote "..... theiving Jews....." "oh that's redundant isn't it?"

" .... Apes...." referring to blacks

He's taken on just about every PC no-no there is. BUT, this is an election year and a light news period.... duh

He's derided, blacks, jews, spics, pollacks, frenchies, canadians, mentally retarded, physically handicapped etc. etc. There is no reason for this shit other than the pompous news media are feeding on an open wound.

Howard Stern in fact was/is much more over the top.

E. G.

[Boon Mee]

Update: Snoop Dogg attacks critics who compare him to Imus because, as he toldMTV:

"It's a completely different scenario," said Snoop, barking over the phone from a hotel room in L.A. "[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC [the cable network home to Imus] going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha***as say we in the same league as him."

Translation: Only black rappers can call women hos and bitches. Only black rappers can call black people niggas. Because it's coming from their minds and souls...

[raycarey]

Imus is a Shock Jock and well known to be one of the best.

one of the best? maybe about 20 years ago.

[barbaro]

It's amusing that Imus gets hauled up to hang on the tree while the rest of them get a free pass to use the same exact words and language.

As long as Black media personalities are held to the same standard, that's fine.

But maybe Imus is being targeted because of his race.

[raycarey]

imus was fired by msnbc because he doesn't have the numbers anymore.

[obsidian]

he was fired for publicly stepping on his dick, VERY late in his career and in a way that divided public opinion along straight racial lines. he is a laibility. fuck him. next.

[barbaro]

Rosie Still Worried About Her Job? 'View' Co-Host Continues to Defend Imus' 'Free Speech'

....Rosie said the next step is the "thought police" locking everyone up in Guantanamo Bay without a lawyer.

Earlier in the segment, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and surprisingly, Joy Behar commented on the lack of moral authority Imus’ harshest critics, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton possess.

Link & Entire: http://newsbusters.org/stories/rosie...l?q=node/11950

[Boon Mee]

^^
He was fired because Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson ganged up on him.
Never enjoyed his 'commentary' anyhow...

[obsidian]

he stepped in an obvious tiger trap when all he wanted to do was dance real close to the edge. i'm not a big fan either but i did enjoy him fronting bush off a couple years ago at the media dinner.

[Boon Mee]

^
I liked it even better when he went after Bubba during the Monica Lewinsky thing.

[barbaro]

Below is a link to an article about the term "nappy-headed," and why it's considered so offensive.

I'd never heard of the term "nappy-headed" until last week. This word has a history in the U.S. but obviously is derived from old English, where it's of course used in a different way.

Anyway, I thought this article was interesting.

Here's the link: Imus slur is so racist it has fallen from use - Radio - MSNBC.com


Brief excerpt with little/no information:

Updated: 9:07 a.m. PT April 12, 2007

NEW YORK - When syndicated U.S. radio host Don Imus called a mostly black women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” he used a slur considered so racist it has mostly fallen out of modern American usage.

[YellowTrip]

^
Black call each other Niggers all day in NYC , and Nappy is a way they snap on each other when they are having a bad hair day.

I heard this a million this while growing in NYC.

It is a tame comment at best and Imus probably thought it would go over like balls Marie , but obviously it backfired.

Anyway I just paid my taxes on all my earned income , I sho know what dats money goin foo.

[barbaro]

^
Black call each other Niggers all day in NYC , and Nappy is a way they snap on each other when they are having a bad hair day.

I heard this a million this while growing in NYC.

Very good point.

Also, In my "Ice Cube" music collection there is a song, I have right now called: "givin' up the nappy."

So....is this all because Imus....is.....white?


I am starting to think so.

Double standards.