Imus canned by MSNBC

[Dan Strassberg]

Don't you get that some things that a member of a minority group can say
with impunity about other members of that group create a firestorm when
someone who is not a member of that group says them? Is that so hard to
grasp? That may not be the way it SHOULD be. The situation may not be right
and it may even be responsible for some serious social problems, but that's
how it IS! You don't appear to be a member of an ethnic minority, so maybe
you can't get your arms around it. Time for you to try, though. And you and
other righties should stop using it to excuse Imus's outrageous remarks.
And, as I pointed out in an earlier post, those remarks were not made
thoughtlessly. They were calculated--but there was a mistake in the
calculations. You can take that to the bank!

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Dan Strassberg
dan.strassberg@att.net
Fax: 1-707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@mail.com>
To: "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>; "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: Imus canned by MSNBC


> >>But, somehow it IS acceptable for black artists to record and
> radio/TV stations to play Rap/Hip-Hop music and videos visually and
> verbally extolling the virtues/shortcomings of "hos" ?
>
> Laura Ingraham was talking about this the other day with Jason
> Whitlock, sports columnist for the Kansas City Star:
>
> http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
>
> "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."
>
>