I’m kind of glad Imus was fired from MSNBC and CBS for making the “nappy-headed ho’s” comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team but… what about people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others who make racist comments?Â? Do we just expect it from them?
I also want to just say that those members of the basketball team who spoke at the news conference, especially Essence Carson, were incredibly poised and just sounded brilliant.Â? They were tactful and quite diplomatic about the whole thing and I really wish these ladies well in their future.
I think that there are two major differences — first, between racist slurs and racist concepts and second, because Beck and Limbaugh (and their counterparts on the other side of the aisle who are similarly classist and sexist on many occasions if not racist) tend to limit their commentary to public figures, which the Rutgers team is not.
And then there is another double standard–that in which other entertainers (comedians and rappers come to mind readily) say racist and degrading things regularly, and are rewarded with record contracts and adoring fans.
Left off part of my comment. . . .
say racist and degrading things regularly, and are rewarded with record contracts and adoring fans and not held accountable. As they should be, and as Imus was.