Associated Press – April 14, 2007:

Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer said Friday the team had accepted radio host Don Imus’ apology. She said he deserves a chance to move on but hopes the furor his racist and sexist insult caused will be a catalyst for change.

“We, the Rutgers University Scarlet Knight basketball team, accept — accept — Mr. Imus’ apology, and we are in the process of forgiving,” Stringer read from a team statement a day after the women met personally with Imus and his wife.

“We still find his statements to be unacceptable, and this is an experience that we will never forget,” she said.


“Can’t we all just get along?”



  1. doug says:

    #29. Thanks, Podesta. Yes, the uniform tactic of the pro-Imus crowd has not been to defend what he said (which is indefensible), but rather to attack some of his lead detractors. And good on you for exercising your freedom of speech to impugn the scalp hygiene and sexual mores of Lauren’s female relatives. It does rather shock me that he has not applauded your vigorous contribution to the debate 😉

    #30. Richard, if the FCC tried to take Don Imus off the air, I would be among the first ones to denounce it as a violation of the First Amendment. But no government moved to shut him up, his employer, the owner of his podium did. Every media outlet has the ABSOLUTE right to exercise editorial discretion to determine whether they want to be associated with such behavior. And these outlets decided they did not.

    Lets put it this way. If I am a doctor, I get to decide what magazines to put in my waiting room. I decide on the Weekly Reader rather than Penthouse Forum because I do not think the latter is something I want my medical practice to be associated with. Am I censoring all those fine people who wish to share their sexual exploits with the world – including my patients and their families? Not at all. I am merely exercising my right to decide what speech I want in a venue I control.

    That is exactly what Don Imus’ employers did. And good for them.

  2. Lauren the Ghoti says:

    For the enlightenment of the white-hating bigots like Podperson, I’d like to share the thoughts of someone who feels exactly as I do, another “racist;” Mr. Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star .

    The full column is here. What follows are choice excerpts, which, exactly like the points I and others have made, anti-white racist clowns like Podperson and Mr Confusion will go to any length to avoid answering.

    . . . . . . . . . . .

    Imus isn’t the real bad guy
    Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.

    By JASON WHITLOCK – Columnist

    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.

    [snip]

    …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.

    [snip]

    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.

    It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

    (NOTE: Poor, poor Mr Confusion is highly upset that I said allowing his 7-year-old daughter to listen to hip-hop is irresponsible child abuse.)

    Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.

    [snip]

    I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.

    But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.

    [snip]

    In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?

    I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?

    When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.

    No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

    . . . . . . . .

    I can’t wait for the pathetic contortions the local self-hating white suspects’ll twist themselves into in order to once again avoid these real issues…

    C’mon, Podperson. Call me some more irrelevant names. That way (you hope) no one’ll notice you can’t address my points – because you and your kind are the prejudiced ones, the lynch mob.

    Oh, you said something about my female relatives? Boo-hoo. They’re grownups. They’ll survive.

    Unlike you and the professional victims you love so much, I’m a grownup too; your infantile namecalling can’t hurt me. They’re just words. Just like the dumb shit Imus said. One day, when you grow up, you might figure that out for yourself.

  3. JBA says:

    Poster #1, that’s stupid. You call the Rutger’s players racist, but thay cannot be racist! They are Black! Only whites can be racist. Blacks and other people of color have never enslaved the world like whites. Destruction of the enviroment, war, and racism are the legacy of whites. Whites are the virus of this planet. End of story! We must all work for peace.

  4. Greg Allen says:

    Thousands and thousands of hours spend talking about this and will whites learn anything from this?

    Not much, if anything. Just like the OJ case. We American’s talked that one to death but hardly anybody was listening.

    For starters, we white people need to get it in our thick skulls that racism is different than bigotry. When we whites face the occasional anti-white bigotry we assume it’s something like what blacks experience with racism.

    It ain’t AT ALL the same. Not even close.

    Listen to black people. Let your guard down and listen to their stories of what racism is like for them. Most likely, it is NOTHING like the occasional anti-white bigotry you may have experienced.

  5. circuitsmith says:

    #1. Believe it or not there are Black people who don’t listen to “rap music singers” or approve of the lyrics.

  6. Mike says:

    #34, you’re correct, they are different.

    Racism is the belief that one race is innately superior to another. Bigotry is just an intolerance towards a group of people out of some form of prejudice.

    Unfortunately for your argument, very few people are actually the racists you and others like to claim.

  7. Mr. Fusion says:

    #32, Fish Breath,

    (NOTE: Poor, poor Mr Confusion is highly upset that I said allowing his 7-year-old daughter to listen to hip-hop is irresponsible child abuse.)

    I think you really are not only an asshole, but a truly narcissistic one at that. Your idiocy is what is “Hip Hop should not be confused with “gansta rap”. Of coarse, being the drunk and drug addict you have admitted to, I understand your inability make coherent thoughts. That also explains why you love to invent accusations. I don’t know what explains your racism.

    Quoting some columnist in near entirety in order to make a point shows YOU can’t make the point yourself. I don’t know who Jason Whitlock is, I don’t believe I have ever heard of him, and couldn’t care less what his opinion is. If he has something to add to this discussion, then let him make his own post.


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