are there two less relevant people in infotainment that could have been involved in this?

And if it were a black radio host referring to a group of blondes as Frizzy-headed bimbos ???

Same story? Doubtful

While the entrenched double standard you describe is not racist, referencing it, as you have done here, is.

Goddamned lanky-haired debbil.

lol its so hard for white cats to not be racist seein as yall all oppressed an all

I read the same article you did Lobochaos...

You have been fooled by a hack opinion-jounalist.

think for yourself next time, please...

So...

1) Oppression makes racism easy and OK, and

2) Being oppressed by a race is the only acceptable reason to take issue with that race.

These are important lessons; thanks!

Until yesterday I had been suspicious why everyone seemed to be condemning Imus for his racially insensitive remark but no one was questioning the validity of the remark. Last night I saw the rutgers girls basketball team on a stage with tears welling in their eyes as they used Imus to attempt to propel themselves to fame and fortune. Teh I man speaks teh truth. They truly are nappy headed hos.

When Imus appeared on Sharpton's show, Sharpton trotted out his own daughter, who stood there visibly uncomfortable while Sharpton harangued Imus further. That smacks less of legitimate issue and more of clumsily-handled media-circus race vendetta. He's playing 'gonna get u sucka' over some broadcasted symbols when he could probably actually be getting somewhere by handing out food and books. I've never paid much attention to him but I'm beginning to understand why so many seem to consider him a histrionic grandstander.

What's interesting about this case is I've never seen anyone apologize so much for such an innocuous remark and still meet with such unabated fury. Evidently 'nappy-headed' has racial overtones, but if that's true, it's news to me. Sharpton would have you think 'wanna-be' is a racial slur too, which means lots of people are in trouble and don't know it.

well, quoting juvenile:

Keep them nappy head bitches out your face

i don't recall any sharpton outrage over this.

icp sayeth:

By no nappy-headed, bare-footed, crackheaded sewer skank

(p.s. they're white)

and ho is used EVERYWHERE.

so, is the issue using 'nappy-headed' or 'hos' or just the fact that these were some specific nappy-headed hos.

or was it that they were black and he was white?

i'm not saying it wasn't out of line, but to crucify the guy and lecture him? i think that's even further out of line.

i think the worst sin, though, is some old dude trying to use gangsta speak.

no, you're wrong.

the worst sin is that al roker feels compelled to chime in.

The American Heritage Dictionary:

nap·py 1 (nāp'ē)
adj. nap·pi·er, nap·pi·est

1. Having a nap; fuzzy.
2. Kinky; frizzy.

Exhibit A:


All that's left for them to object to is 'ho'. In my experience, nigers call any vaginally enhanced human being a 'ho', as more a statement of gender than of profession.

Why this is an issue at all is beyond me. If Al Sharpton wants to be anything more useful than a media house niger, he ought to start taking the rap/hip hop community to task for it's objectification and degradation of women. The 'You people' Imus spoke of after this dust-up have more to fear from within than from without these days.

besides it wasn't that Imus. It was Don K. Imus.