Imus isn’t the real bad guy

Posted on April 12, 2007
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I’m not a fan of Don Imus, and I haven’t listened to his radio show that often over the years, but honestly, this story is such a waste of type and ink in the op-ed columns of every newspaper across this country.

Jason Whitlock, columnist for the Kansas City Star wrote that, “Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.”

This is moronic to throw Don Imus on the sword when many other public figures have said what I consider to be worse and got by scott free. This is like blaming the gun for going off when there was a person pulling the trigger. Or like suing, in a court of law, the hamburger, shake and french fried potatoes when the overweight kid ate so many that now he has malfunctioning organs and only three to six months to live.


Imus isn’t the real bad guy — Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.

You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.

The bigots win again.

While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.

I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.

I’ve maintained through this whole ordeal that blaming Don Imus for the entire blow-up is rediculous, when he was just pretending to be the whole “hip, with it, urban” guy with the lingo of the street. This is the same exact words that many young, urban black Americans say to each other day in and day out. Why is Don Imus saying what is commonplace among rap singers and young folks any different?

Any heaven forbid that there’s another scandal so race-baiters Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can cash in on hearing their own voices on all the tv news programs and tell all of Americans just how needed they are to keep the “man” from oppressing the helpless black populace in the USA. Jackson and Sharpton are such a morally repugnant element that keeps the true survival spirit of Black America dependent on their brand of stupid rhetoric.

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