Recently, radio personality Don Imus made derrogatory remarks regarding the Rutgers Women Basketball team...here are some of his comments...
The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, lost the NCAA women's championship game Tuesday, and Imus was discussing the game with producer Bernard McGuirk.
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ..."
"Some hardcore hos," said McGuirk.
"That's some **** headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
There is a lot more...how does that make you feel, I mean what is your opinion of that?
Straight up, the problem isn't that he said that. For real. People talk like that all the time, black what or otherwise.
The problem is that he was able to say that as a public figure with a national platform AND STILL KEEP HIS JOB!
That just goes to show you that all is well in "The Land of Milk and Honey".
Just found out today that Imus' show was cut off....idk I'm split with this whole thing. You've still got people in high places calling black females (well females in general) hos, *******, etc. Imus and others like him are going to say what they want (one of the many perks of the freedom of speech) off the air as well as on. If we as a people can't stand for whites to refer to our female counterparts as hoes, then why should black men be able to mouth it? In any context it's still a negative term and we shouldn't get all irrate when we're the main ones using it to describe each other.
