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Originally Posted by MKIV VR6
Lets take race out of the whole equation for a moment. Lets say you had a daughter on that team, you watch her practice day in and day out. You go to all her games and you are proud of her accomplishments. Her and her team worked like hell to make it to the finals and they are rewarded by being called whores. Would it still be no big deal if that was your daughter?
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Originally Posted by Julio
i would be like "wow what an asshole". I wouldnt take it to heart. I think that there are a lot more important things for the media and society to focus on than a stupid comment. it has gone way to far. it has caused more harm by being replayed, discussed, and debated on tv, because now his comment has reached everyone instead of just his listeners.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisdavis
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Originally Posted by chrisdavis
Have you ever really listen to the IMUS show ever? Dude is always making jokes.....
OR Im sure you have watched the Chapelle show.... and He said WORST shit... He was payed what 40.. 50 million to make racist comments...
Is called Ignorance AT ITS BEST.
A white man said it and Here comes Batman and robin ( sharpton and Jackson)...
Anyways....
BTW... How come no one has mentioned how SHARPTON love the jews and how he lost the lawsuit for a few millions and UP TO THIS DATE HE HASNT PAID SHIT... that crook says HE has 0 assets to pay!! hahahah what a joke...
WE NEED SOME REAL BLACK LEADERS TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND TAKE FUCKING CHARGE.... FUCK SHARPTON AND JACKSON......
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Originally Posted by MKIV VR6
thats dumb to say, NOone has the right to tell anyone not to be offended by anything. One thing might not offend u but it might offend someone else. Everyone has something that can be said to them that will just push their buttons. We all do its human nature. noone has the right to tell anyone what and what not to be offended by.
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Originally Posted by Julio
i agree we need more leaders period.. our future is lookin fucked up.
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Originally Posted by JITB
funny you say that.. Because seriously.. This is NOT ABOUT RIGHTS....
if it was about RIGHTS.. then where did FREEDOM OF SPEECH go ?
Rights are only important when is convinient for the idiots...
true, but people seem to get offended way to damn easy. everyone always has to be overly-politically correct. what he said wasn't that damn bad. it was dumb and wrong, but come on. i have had much worse things said to me, friends, family, and about my race and taken much less or no offense. i think that the amount of people offended out weighs, by far, the amount damage that a comment like that should cause. it's all just a circus.Quote:
Originally Posted by JITB
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Originally Posted by Julio
im not talkin abou rights, like freedom of speech, but im saying. If some shit goes down with a group of people, some might take offense to it, soem might. '
U got 3 folks white dude - black dude - asian dude
some random guy comes up and starts spitting insults about asians to all 3 of u alls face. it wont bother the black dude or the white dude. It would bother the asian tho.. the black and white dudes have no place to tell the asian dude.."u shouldnt be offended its not that serious". thats basic principle and respect for other people. If someone told me that something made them upset or shit...i may not understand but thats how they feel thats how they feel.
freedom of speech is alive and well, but u still have to deal with the results of your words. jesse jackson/al sharpton have dealt with their mouths the same way as imus is. sharpton/jackson may be ont he news and at conferences...but their credibility and intentions are always questioned and they will always be thought of as big mouth hipocrits because of their past, and form the shti they have say. Just like Imus hes not being put in jail hes not being fined.. hes being fired from a major station. Now if he was facing jailtime than the freedom of speech card can be thrown. But eveyrone has the freedom to say what they want.. but they need to be prepared to face the results of what they say.
i think folks are taking their hatred towards sharpton and jackson out and mixing the girls into it. There not the ones all over the news. They spoke once on tv,and they had a private meeting with Imus and i guess patched it up. If i was on that team that shit wouldnt probrably do shit to me either.. but im not them so i cant downplay it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MKIV VR6
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Originally Posted by Julio
No I havent really listened to him, I gave it a few tries and never really got into him.
Yes Ive watched Chapelle Show. And Im aware he gets away with racism
Sharpton and Jackson are a joke. They wait with baited breath for any thing remotely resembling a a racist comment, so they can get themselves back out in front of the cameras.
I am not saying his comment was racist or wasnt racist. What I was saying is that if I had a daughter and somebody on the radio called her a whore I would be pissed. It would "not be no big deal". Would I sue the radio station, no. Would I be all over tv bitching about it, no, but I would applaud thier decision to fire the person who said it.
i leave my thread for 2 days
and it gets up to 10 pages...
lol good job IA, i'm proud
Thanks for backing me up Julio. :goodjob:
BTW, Although Shirley girl has been doing a much better job at cleaning up ATL than any of her predecessors (although the last one was a crook who's now in jail, so the bar wasn't exactly high... :D ) she too jumped on the bandwagon. Obama threw his .02 the other day too, a little late to the party are we Mr. Obama??? :rolleyes: I fully expect the Hilda Beast Clinton to be somewhere in there in the fray soon enough.
Either way, Sharpton and Jesse started it but there sure are plenty of "leaders" jumping onto the bandwagon too. They too are just as much idiots as the ones who started it.
I also heard in Al's "news conference" :rolleyes: (that he probably scheduled himself) that "his group" was going to meet with "Black entertainers" to discuss them not using derrogatory terms too. Yeah, right. Let's see if that turns into a feeding frenzy like this one. Don't hold your breath.
Besides, that is starting to sound dangerously close to censorship anyway.
I say, unless it's criminal, let the MARKET decide what is worth listening/watching. Afterall, we do have buttons that say "power on/off", right? ;)
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Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
the market did decide via sponsors, and didnt want anything to do with him or his show. u all act like his career is over, if imus was to get a show deal with another station, his rating would skyrocket because people want to hear what he has to say. I gurantee he will have a book or another show int he future.
I didn't even know IMUS was still alive until this....
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Originally Posted by Julio
But I will edit my line, ENOUGH of society did not like it for the sponsors to drop him.....its all Business
funny thing is their stock is going to drop from losing him lolQuote:
Originally Posted by AirMax95
so doing it for the reasons of they would lose money seems kind of ironic
and yea i saw some black people on the news saying it was overreacted to. now they have all over the news is their a double standard and are showing rappers like snoop dog and ludacris all over the news.
so much has come from this one incident, a statement that wasn't even racist to begin with... but we have already been there and debated that
if their so proud to be african american then send half of their black asses back to fuckin africa. Then we will have only americans....Why is it that EVERY fuckin problem the world has IS black related....
crime=black
shootings=black
rape=black, sometimes white, so kill them crackers too
drugs=black
aids=black
somehow or another fuckin global warming is niggers fault. Maybe theres soo many niggers in the world that the sun heats them up and they are producing heat and making the earth warm, that has to be what it is
I would bet that you're one of the reasons scientists think we humans evolved from primates. Your inability to form complete sentences and the fact that you can't use that mass between your ears for anything but coming to irrational conclusions is proving their theory to be true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sack Attack