BREAKING: Imus in the Morning a Fortnight

We live in the US. Freedom of speech! you don't like it then don't listen.

As a white american male I think Imus did nothing wrong. black people use the media to promote derogatory words such as Niggers and Hos in their music, comedy acts, programs, and videos. You can't have your cake and eat it too!
Al(CRAPTON)is far from being a saint after trying to frame 6 white men for abousing a young black girl named Tawana Brawley. He was forgiven for being the racist pig that he is. Everyone knows that imus is controversial, and that's why I don't listen to the garbage, and I don't listen to the garbage from Cris Rock either that address black women as niggers and hos. Get the messagae? It's time that the black community start teaching and banning the use of Niggers and Hos in their routine acts. Music, Music Videos, Comedy Acts etc., all need to be pulled from the airwaves and from the store shelves.

And the racial divide grows ever more!

Wanting to hold someone accountable for their actions whilst you shuck and jive the poison in your own community is sickening. Imus is a giant douche bag! Everyone knows this. But at least he doesn't pretend to not offend. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are pathetic shadows of the great and wonderful, Martin Luther King, and heck, even Malcolm. History will show that Imus, Sharpton, and Jackson are all racist buffoons.

It's okay when a rapper uses these terms in a song, that's freedom of speech, but when a white person uses these terms it's racist.

Give Imus a break. He apologized and has been suspended for two weeks. You don't see anyone in New York calling for Jesse Jackson to be stripped of his title of "Reverend" for his "Hymietown" remarks. This is basically reverse discrimination against the real minority in the United States. You average white male.

Suck it up and get over it you little whiners.

Until all Black "Americans", they for the most part are NOT "Aftican" Americans as white people don't call themselves "European Americans", stop trash talking about their culture and themselves in their music and comedy routines how do you justify Sharpton's and Jackson's outrage over this non-newsworthy issue. White people say the same type of ignorant things about each other and you don't see them on the news demanding to fire someone or even ask for an apology. GET OVER IT and move on to more important issues.

As I have stated previously, just check out Cora Daniels' 'Ghetto Nation' - this couldn't be a more perfect example.

It's time for the PC police to get a grip! Where were they when the Reverend Al, made racial remarks during the Brawley incident and the Reverend Jesse made his remarks to Himie town? Did the title of Reverend take on a new meaning of Racist?

For two men of the cloth, they surely don't practice what they preach or is it that it only applies when it's politically beneficial to them.

I agree that the comment was vulgar and should not have been said. How many times have I done the same thing?

I find Don Imus, funny, intelligent, thought provoking, a teacher and a compasionate human being and I will always have respect for the man....warts and all.

Who the hell and when was it decided that the words 'nappy' and 'hos' are racist words, when every rapper ,black and white, are making money by flaunting and singing it?
Al Sharpton, you do not deserve and must not allow yourself to be labelled as a 'Reverend'. You bring disgrage to the word. You are simply an oppurtunist and a rabble-rouser. All this hypocrisy and double standards are making me sick and unproductive!

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Imus has said he is sorry.....That's more than Rush Limbach and some of the Fox News people will ever do and they have made terrible statements about blacks and etc. I watch Iman every morning....couldn't start my day without him.....so don't keep him away too long.

My comment is, how is it permissable for blacks to call each other derogatory names and they not be held to the same standard of a caucasian male? If the consequences for saying something wrong means to be fired, then corporate America will not have management or non-management employees. We as a nation need to learn to forgive and move on. I do believe that he (Don Imus) should have some type of penalty or consequence, but do we fire him with a tenure of thirty years. We have all been in his place at some point in our lives, we all deserve a second chance. Let's focus our energy and time with things that matter, Iraq, Oil, Poverty, Aids, you get my point. God Bless America

Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

I've heard Sharpton make several racist comments, but I never hear anyone ever call him out on any of them. I am so sick of hearing these same people rant and rave on how they are treated. I know of many whites including my family who have been treated with much disrespect and racist comments but you never see white people suing blacks and hispanics or getting on camera making idiots of themselves because of it. I think they continue to use the "prejudice card" because it usually gets them easy money.

i personally don't like imus but i don't feel he should be fired for what he said, he said he was sorry for his commits; and you could tell he really ment that, he is human he made a mistake give the guy a brake.If he made a rude commit about a honkey white girl would it have gotten this big??? come on grow up and get over it accept that he said he was sorry and move on.

Why is it that Jessie Jackson can call New York Hymietown and still have any credibility? Maybe they should fire him. Oh yea, that would presuppose the notion that he had a job to be fired from. Or what about Al Sharpie Sharpton himself? Has he ever apologized for the Twanna Brawley hoax? Nah, not Al. Apologies are for white people. What Imus said was clearly offensive and idiotic, but hey, he doesnt run for president on the Democratic ticket. Al and Jessie do and they are somehow "Legitimate"? Hell, at least the Republicans didn't like it when David Dukes ran.

WHY DO PEOPLE SIT BACK AND WAIT TILL SOMEONE SCREWS UP AND SAYS SOMETHING "TO ACTUALLY ACT ON THE RACISM PROBLEM"???
HAS ANYONE BEEN OFFENDED FROM CARLOS MENCIA OR HOW ABOUT DAVE CHAPPELLE??? THESE TWO MAKE FUN OF THE "CRACKERS, BEANERS, N-ERS, BLACK HO B-CHS, AND MANY MORE OFFENDING COMMENTS!

THE RUTGERS GIRLS ARE TALENTED, AND WILL GRADUATE AND GUESS WHAT? BLACK, WHITE, LATINO OR PINK..EVERY ONE WILL EITHER LISTEN TO RAP MUSIC THAT CLEARLY EITHER TALKS ABOUT KILLING, OR TERRIBLE INSULTING LYRICS TO WOMEN OF ALL RACES! BUT WILL THEY OR DO THEY GET OFFENDED BY THEM???

OR THEY WILL WATCH PEOPLE LIKE "DAVE CHAPELLE OR CARLOS MENCIA" AND LET THAT PASS AS "ACCEPTABLE??

WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO STOP OUR CHILDREN LISTENING TO THE RAPPERS & COMICS WHO "ON PURPOSE" MAKE RACIAL FUN OF EVERY RACE??? ASPECIALLY WOMEN OF ALL COLORS.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT THESE YOUNG WOMEN ON A BASKETBALL TEAM...THIS IS ABOUT THE FACT THAT CERTAIN RACES "WAIT" TILL THEY HEAR SOMETHING THAT THEY CAN MAKE A RUCKUS ABOUT "INSTEAD OF CONTINUING THE FIGHT TO END RACISM" !

BY THIS DAY AND AGE,WE SHOULD ALREADY BE UNITED AS AMERICANS...WHO SHOULD BE TOGETHER ON THE FIGHT "TOGETHER" TO END THE WAR, HUNGER, THE POOR, OUR ECONOMY, AND ILLEGAL ALIENS COMING HERE..AND TAKING THE JOBS THAT EVERY "AMERICAN" COULD USE?

DONT USE THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN TO MAKE EXCUSES..EACH ONE OF US MAKES OUR "OWN LIFE", DONT COMPLAIN IF YOU WERE TO LAZY TO GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND GO OUT AND MAKE A LIFE! IS IT EASY? NO, NOT FOR ANY RACE OR COLOR !!

DID IMUS MAKE A MISTAKE? YES HE DID. SHOULD HE BE GIVEN A WORSE PUNISHMENT? NO, HE KNOWS SINCERELY HE DID A TERRIBLE THING, AND MANY TIMES APPOLOGIZED. HE HAS HELPED MORE PEOPLE, OF EACH COLOR AND RACE.

ARE THE RUTGERS GIRLS GOING TO ALSO ASK FOR AN APPOLOGY FROM EVERY RAPPER, DAVE CHAPELLE AND CARLOS MENCIA FOR THEIR FEMALE AND RACIAL STATEMENTS AND SLURS?????

THIS IS NOT ABOUT RUTGERS, NOR ANYMORE ABOUT DON IMUS...THIS IS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO STILL CANNOT LET GO OF 300 YEARS AGO WHEN SLAVERY ENDED...BUT STILL WANNA KEEP BRINGING UP THE PAST THEY "DID NOT" LIVE IN, AND ARE AS EQUAL TO EVERY COLOR THAT WALKS THE GREAT LAND OF AMERICA.

I WAS CALLED A CRACKER BY A GROUP OF BLACK FEMALES WHILE WALKING OUT OF A WAWA TWO WEEKS AGO...CAN I ALSO HAVE THE MEDIA GIVE ME MY TWO MINUTES OF SPOTLIGHT OF FAME, SO I CAN SCREAM RACISM?

HOW MANY WHITE, HISPANIC, ASIAN OR ANY OTHER RACE BEEN RACIALLY SLURRED???? THINK ABOUT IT !

AGAIN, DO NOT USE THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN TO SPEAK UP "WHEN CONVIENENT", LIKE NOW, WHEN MR IMUS STUPIDLY MADE A COMMENT. IF YOU WANT TO RANT AND RAVE "RACISM", YOU BETTER START TALKING ABOUT "ALL PEOPLE ON THE TV WHO ARE RACIST" AND MAKE WORSE COMMENTS THEN MR. IMUS AND "DO NOT" APPOLIGIZE FOR IT. MR. IMUS DID APPLOGIZE SINCERELY TO THESE YOUNG WOMEN.

GOD FORBID WE UNITE AS A COUNTRY OF AMERICANS, AND END THIS CRAP. AND QUIT USING "RACISM" AS YOUR WAY TO RANT OR GET YOUR WAY.

This is about the racist comments made by Don Imus and has absolutely nothing to do with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It is the media that portray these two individuals as "leaders", not the Black / African American Community.

It is ironic that people choose to deflect from the issue and attack Rev. Jackson and Rev. Sharpton as if what they say or do represents the feeling of a whole ethnic group. If I do not judge you by the deeds of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the KKK, why do you measure me by the deeds of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?

Don Imus should be fired. Period.

its amazing to read these comments and see how most of you people think. why can't people be objective and not stray to color lines when discussing a certain issue. What Don Imus said was wrong towards black women and women in general and he should be fined if it was his first offense but it was not so i think he shoud be held accountble for his actions and be fired for it. To say that its freedom of speech is ridiculous, if some major public figure which happens to be black called a predominately white girls basketball team "a group of nappy headed hoes" i am pretty sure that the majority of the white community would be calling for his resignation or for him to be fired. I understand that he apologized but his apology came after the reaction of the public about his comment, if he had said it during the 1940s or the 50s, there wouldn't have been an apology because racist sentiment was accepted and tolerated in those times.
The Rev. Sharpton and Jackson are both profiting from the situation because i think they are in it for themselves. I am not familiar with this whole Twanna incident and if the outcome called for the Rev's apology and he being the spearhead for justice should have been the first to say "i was wrong and do apologize." The only major black leader in my opinion was the Great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy is not that he was a black man but an American.
To critcize the hip hop industry and all its negativity and fall short in criticizing the hard rock metallica musics and all the hate that it promotes is wrong. I know that both are a form of music and although the music is not positive, it should be left out of this discussion.
I notice that a lot of people are commenting on the fact that blacks can call each other the n word and not be held to the same standars as whites. I do not agree with the use of the n word but I can see how the standards are different, the n word was not created by blacks but by whites as a way to degrade blacks and to subjegate them. So if a black man calls another the n word they know its not out of racism but can't be sure if the other person is white because he/she could had meant it to be offensive. So a word that was created to be offensive have now transformed into something different. I have seen the word used among people who were of the opposite background and it was not a big deal because the participants knew it was not meant to be offensive.
America is very divided on color lines whenever it comes down to discussions like these but considering that this nation was built on slavery I dont expect anything different.

We can delude ourselves with the belief that the lofty civil-minded rhetoric debating the topical demand for ousting a "white bigot" radio personality who has made a successful career of ceaselessly spewing caustic insulting remarks about (fill in the blank – this week it happens to be African-American women basketball players) that exploits the moral depravity found in all of us, not just the individuals that make up Don Imus' substantial audience. If it weren't for our varying degree of discriminating and prejudicial proclivities, then Imus' ratings would be insignificant and his sponsors would be negligible, thereby preventing his longevity in public radio altogether. We wouldn't even be discussing Don Imus because he would be an inconsequential unknown. These discussions are merely evidence of our inadequate prioritizations and fundamental lack of respect for each other that's shared across racial lines. If his employers believed that the “Imus In The Morning” show was losing money, regardless of its popularity, they wouldn't hesitate to sever his employment with utmost haste. However, since this is not the case, he will be only be suspended for two weeks which should assuage the offended and the indignant, as well as provide Imus with a much needed vacation, no doubt. Out of sight, out of mind. Before we join the band wagon to crucify Don Imus, we should examine our own failure to recognize the dangers of placing profit before human dignity. It has resulted with our society being closely compared to the awesome, yet decadent greatness and deplorable corruption of the Roman Empire. This is not the first time that hate-filled commentaries, all protected by our civil rights amendment, has been veiled in the guise of innocent, albeit politically incorrect humor, nor will it be the last.

"Nappy" is a derogatory name slaveholders used to describe blacks. Like the "N" word, blacks use it, but it was started by whites, and when used by whites in reference to blacks, IT IS ALWAYS DEROGATORY. Imus had to reason to say it. The Rutgers team members didn't deserve it.

The comments made by Imus are many of them crude, insensitive and riduculous. I agree that criticizing a youg person or as in this case a university sports team is definitely crossing the line and inexcusable. However, I beieve that by giving so much attention to this ignorant type of behavior we only compound the problem. See it for what it is, ignorant, low class behavior and rise above stupid people like Imus. That is probably a more valuable lesson than any in teaching our young people. Trying to get him fired is pointless. If you don't want to hear stupid comments, turn off the radio or listen to someone worthwhile. Try Focus on the Family- Dobson is great.

SOME EOPLE, LIKE AL SHARPTON, WOULDN'T BE SATISFIED IF THEY TOOK IMUS OUT AND SHOT HIM. THEY ARE ALL ABOUT STIRRING THINGS UP. HE, SHARPTON, OBVIOUSLY CAN SAY ANYTHING ABOUT WHITES AND NOT HAVE ANY CONSEQUENCE AT ALL, BUT LET A WHITE PERSON SAY ANYTHING, EVEN UNINTENTIONALLY, ABOUT BLACKS AND HE JUMPS ON IT WITH BOTH FEET TO TRY TO KEEP THE HATE GOING.
IN MY OWN OPINION, I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANYONE OUT THERE MORE RACIST THAN SOMEONE LIKE AN AL SHARPTON.
I DON'T BELIEVE IMUS IS RACIST. HE HAS A PARTICULAR TYPE OF SHOW WHERE HE SAYS BAD THINGS ABOUT EVERYONE AND I MIGHT NOT AGREE WITH IT, THAT IS HIS SHOW AND IT IS MUCH TAMER THAN SOMEONE LIKE HOWARD STERN, AL SHARPTON, ETC., IN MY OPINION.

Give Imus the benefit of the doubt since I'm not aware of such bad behavior of his in the past. We all do or say stupid things once in a while. Guess he just forgot he's more in the public eye than most of us. He says caustic things every day, so probably he got carried away. The president of the most powerful country in the world said ignorant things like "Bring them on!", and al Qaida has since poured it on us, so the detriment Mr. I has caused us is probably minimal if anything negative at all. It actually may have helped the country in the long haul. Perhaps if Mr. Sharpton would have uttered trash like that nobody would have raised his/her eyebrow.

Black, white, yellow, green these comments are unacceptable. Don Imus should be fired and so should his producer because comments of such disgrace are not to be accepted in this society nor on the airwaves. It has been brought to my attention that Rappers have been calling females such disgusting words for years but if you really think about it rappers of today have been signed to their labels for their thug mentality and selling ability not for their lyrical content or respect level of other races or gender. Comedy central is self explanatory comedy they don't pick on a specific race they poke fun at all races leaving the slate even, but Don Imus is a radio voice, supposed to be role model due to the major amount of people that he reaches and he makes these painful racial and sexist comments that just dont hurt African American people but women and people of other cultures also.

Keep him. Actions speak a lot louder then words. Imus has done more in hours for sick and poor kids then the Reverend Al and many of the other criticizers have done in a lifetime