Don Imus Fired; Now Let's Go After Black Rappers
Robert Paul Reyes
April 12, 2007
Radio Shock Jock, Don Imus, is full of piss and vinegar; he has a long and undistinguished career of uttering racist, sexist and homophobic remarks. Usually he spews his vile on the rich, famous and powerful, and not too many people feel sorry for celebrities and politicians.
But when Don Imus called the Rutgers Women's Basketball team "nappy-headed hos", he clearly crossed a line advertisers and the American public simply will not tolerate. The exemplary student-athletes Imus insulted are not in the public arena, and under no circumstances should they have been subjected to such demeaning and dehumanizing language.
After Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Sprint Nextel, GM and American Express pulled their ads, MSNBC fired Don Imus. CBS Radio needs to follow suit and can Don Imus. We need to send a clear message: Enough is enough!
Don Imus isn't the biggest offender when it comes to objectifying, dehumanizing and insulting black women. The biggest offenders are the Uncle Tom rappers who make millions selling obscenity-laden records to white kids from the suburbs. African American rappers are the New Minstrels, donning black face, writing songs that play up the worst stereotypes of blacks.
If you do a Google search of ho or nigga, you won't get hits of speeches by white supremacists; you will get millions of hits of lyrics written by degenerate black rappers.
Don Imus has been justly punished for his racist remarks, it's now time to come down hard on black rappers. It's time we, including the black community, said "Enough is Enough!" Stop calling black women hos and bitches! Stop calling yourselves niggas! Stop making videos portraying black women as scandalous whores. Stop acting like pimps and thugs to appeal to the white kids who buy the vast majority of your sick and idiotic records.
But when Don Imus called the Rutgers Women's Basketball team "nappy-headed hos", he clearly crossed a line advertisers and the American public simply will not tolerate. The exemplary student-athletes Imus insulted are not in the public arena, and under no circumstances should they have been subjected to such demeaning and dehumanizing language.
After Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Sprint Nextel, GM and American Express pulled their ads, MSNBC fired Don Imus. CBS Radio needs to follow suit and can Don Imus. We need to send a clear message: Enough is enough!
Don Imus isn't the biggest offender when it comes to objectifying, dehumanizing and insulting black women. The biggest offenders are the Uncle Tom rappers who make millions selling obscenity-laden records to white kids from the suburbs. African American rappers are the New Minstrels, donning black face, writing songs that play up the worst stereotypes of blacks.
If you do a Google search of ho or nigga, you won't get hits of speeches by white supremacists; you will get millions of hits of lyrics written by degenerate black rappers.
Don Imus has been justly punished for his racist remarks, it's now time to come down hard on black rappers. It's time we, including the black community, said "Enough is Enough!" Stop calling black women hos and bitches! Stop calling yourselves niggas! Stop making videos portraying black women as scandalous whores. Stop acting like pimps and thugs to appeal to the white kids who buy the vast majority of your sick and idiotic records.
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