"Nappy-Headed Hos"The Don Imus lynch mob
Don Imus - a radio personality
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April 11, 2007
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The Walkman, Imus, Racism,
and My Being an Insensitive Smart Ass White Guyby Norman Horowitz
After writing a piece about the "Imus" incident, I have sought the opinions of two of my African American friends. One of them who wishes to remain unidentified said to me "Norman, you just don't understand what this means to Black people." He is right, and understanding in my brain means little to nothing compared to what he feels about this in his soul.
Much of "comedy" offends someone. If you are the someone, don't watch or listen.
I have heard Imus denigrate Jews, Catholics, overweight people and a broad variety of other available minorities. I do not like everything he says, and in so many areas of life, they were not designed for me to like them all. He is an opinionated pain in the ass, and you never know what he will say or do at any moment, which is one of the reasons that I watch him. HE DOES NOT DO THE TODAY SHOW!
The "let's lynch Imus" ground swell is upon us, and I wish it wasn't. As with Janet Jackson's breast, the seven dirty words of George Carlin, as well as all other "vulgar and indecent" content, if you do not like it, do not WATCH IT OR LISTEN TO IT." How simple.
Sooner or later, if we allow the "I do not approve of what he said or did" mob control content, we will get what we deserve from the broadcast media, and it will all turn into overcooked Cream of Wheat.
Unbeknownst to many, the Constitution, Cable Box, radio tuner, and off and on switch still exist.
Do not assassinate Imus for being and acting the part that he has always played. I am sorry that he said what he said because of the fire storm that it has created; I am now saddened by his marathon "Mea culpa." I would have proffered that he say: "I regret that what I have said has offended anyone."
Ed Lawson (a.k.a. The California Walkman) has been my friend for about 20 years. He is an African-American who wears his hair in dreadlocks and is a dedicated activist.
This is what he sent me about the Imus incident.
OPEN LETTER TO AN OPEN MINDby Edward C. Lawson
Dear Brother Norman,
In their effort to railroad Imus off the air for his un-popular speech, the lynch mob of Sharpton, Jackson & feminists ad infinitum are the modern moral equivalent of the cops who dragged Lenny Bruce off the stage, outlawed Jackie Moms Mabley from Alabama for life, and ran Ray Charles out of Georgia. It is the same shoe on the left foot, instead of the right foot, that is now kicking the Bill of Rights in its angst.
Ladies and gentlemen, this evening's main event is for the Intellectual Light Weight Champion of The Air Waves.
We have in one corner the contender, Don "Nappy Hoes" Imus.
In the opposing corner is the champion heavy weight tag team of Sharpton, Jackson & feminists ad infinitum.
In this evening's match of mental-midget-mud-slingers, the contestant who can do the most damage to constitutionally protected free speech will win this event.
This means no matter who wins, America will lose.
Black America will lose. Liberal America will lose. Feminist America will lose.
This evening's melee is brought to you by the ABCNBCCBSCNNFOX Wrestling Federation, who also have brought you Nicole Ad Nauseum, O. J. All Day and the Michael Jackson Marathon.
At the same time they managed to overlooked the countless conspicuous lies, that let the Bush/Chaney Tag Team murder over 3000 American military boys and girls, drown their colored counter parts in Katrina incompetence, reverse robin hood the poor to pay the rich and mortgage millions of unborn infant Americans to the Peoples Republic of China, which will probably be flooded under "post global warming" water by then anyway.
The judge for this evening's title match is the indelibly black civil rights activist and social commentator Edward Lawson, who most of you Bill-of-Rights-Fans will recognize from his 1983 U.S. Supreme Court "California Walkman" Case or his repeated appearances on Oprah, Larry King and every one else, as documented at:
EDWARD LAWSON
-- ED TV: http://EDTV.blip.tv/ |
-- http://edwardlawson.com |
-- http://youtube.com/watch?v=0ETaiYugYxw |
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Lawson |
Host:Mr. Lawson, could you give our fight fans a few words
on where you think this evening's fight is going to go?Ed Lawson:
In a contest where every body is wrong, let me start with Brother Imus.
We can assume he is guilty of normal male locker room language, at best, or "Birth of A Nation" expletive out takes, at worst. In either case, the Bill of Rights Doctrine of constitutionally protected un-popular speech is advanced, if Brother Imus has your permission to say "nappy hoes."
The honest open public exchange of ideas between blacks and whites, young and old, men and women, Satan and Jesus is only possible, if you give every side, every opportunity to speak their mind, in their own words.
Honest open public discussion is impossible in the milquetoast, mealy mouth, mumbling of politically correct speech, a.k.a. censorship.
Brother Imus, if he gives a voice to his audience of the NASCAR dudes (and their beer bellies), the Archie Bunker heirs or the Casual Klux Klan, than Brother Imus has performed a public service in bringing honest opinions to the air-waves. And that is the only way you will ever have a chance to see them, talk to them or change them.
When Brother Imus and his audience come out of the closet, it's the same as when Elton and his audience come out of the closet.
You should support them both because, regardless of whatever you might think of the individuals, their honesty advances your best interest.
The solution is not to muzzle Brother Imus.
The solution is for all of the nationally own black television and cable networks to counter those errant Imus-isms.
The solution is for all of the nationally owned black radio networks to counter those errant Imus-isms.
The problem is that there are zero black national radio, cable or television networks.
The difference between Martin Luther King's Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and Al Sharpton's Madison Avenue march 2007 is the sum of all the black billionaires, many of the biggest athletes are black millionaires, many of biggest Hollywood actors are black millionaires, many of the biggest music idols are black millionaires, many of the biggest television personalities are black millionaires.
But all these millions and millions and millions of black millions add up to zero black owned national radio networks, zero black owned national cable networks, zero black owned motion picture studios and zero black owned national television networks.
And so all of black America is obliged to bend down on our collective knee, and beg white Brother Imus, "please, please massa Imus, don't say da "n" word on yoe sho."
Niggers don't need a Million Man March.
We need a March of Millionaires.
And the harvest of black zeroes goes further.
If we turn to the other team in Imus vs. Al et al "Rumble in the Jungle," we find there are more zeroes to go around.
The only good that has come out of Brother Imus's mis-mouthing is a modern day "acid test" that illustrates that there is zero black leadership, zero black movement, zero black political organization, and zero black financial organization, which add up to the death of black power.
If Brother Imus had called Brother Bill Gates a "nappy headed hoe," Brother Bill would not have bothered to say a thing.
That's' real power" -- and Brother Bill really is a hoe. Have you seen the price tag on the new Microsoft operating system!
The magnitude of all the empty histrionics is a measure of the impotents and irrelevance of Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, as they waddle to the microphone that neither of them or any other black man owns, to yet again announce for the millionth time that they are going to drag a bunch of protest signs up Madison avenue in an antiquated minstrel show of senile church ladies, old ideas and a few old men that represent almost nobody.
And finally let's turn to the young sisters on the Rutgers basket ball team.
Ladies, you are the referee in this evenings wrestling match.
Ladies if you look at the roll model of the older generation you might find more militant black power if you all dropped out of Rutgers and instead form a Rap Group called the "Nappy Hoes" because your generation has failed to foster a new generation of black leadership that would replace the older generation which has ripened passed its prime and rot as empty symbols and symbolic actions.
The rag tag remains that the right wing ruled were not worth assassinating.
The average hip hop rapper has more independent black power than the people who will parade before the media in your name.
They are false prophets who can not protect you from words or deeds that might harm you.
This whole thing has nothing to do with the life of Brother Imus, and everything to do with the death of black power.
Brother Imus won't be on the radio for the next two weeks. He's on punishment on his yacht.
But I bet the first call to his absent show will be one of his listeners named Brother Voltaire, who will simple say:
"I do not believe in what you say, But I will defend to the death your right to say it."
No one will call the black talk show host, on the black owned national network, because a half century after Montgomery it simply dose not exist.
In good conscience, can we blame Imus for our own failings?
In common sense can we compound our injury by killing free speech that forces us to face our failings which we would prefer to blame on others.
The measure of any man is how he responds when his children are attacked. Real or imagined, this Imus attack on our children reveals an older generation of black leadership that is ideologically bankrupt and a younger generation of black youth that has squandered its inheritance of affirmative action, organization and righteous struggle.
Imus didn't do that.
The Bill of Right's Free Speech didn't do that.
Sincerely yours,
Edward Lawson
site: http://edwardlawson.com |
email: mail@edwardlawson.com |
EDWARD LAWSON
-- ED TV: http://EDTV.blip.tv/ |
-- http://edwardlawson.com |
-- http://youtube.com/watch?v=0ETaiYugYxw |
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Lawson |
The other night, Chris Rock appeared on the Bill Mahar HBO show.Mahar referred to the use of "the N word."
Chris Rock said that the person did not use "the N word," he called him a nigger.
GOOD FOR HIM!
Norman Horowitz
Part time racist, All the time Smart Ass, Full time American
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Larry King Show |
I appreciate this article. I am on the fence on Imus. As a constitutional warrior, I agree with his right to speak and that we can turn this offensive language off. The other side of the fence is that this is done in the context of commerce. The market tends to regulate itself and will ultimately do the same here. His remarks are offensive and divisive. I suspect, however, he will end up on satellite radio.good things to think about
Mike S
Mikobro at aol.com
THANK YOU!All of these over-hyped melodramatic histrionics have been driving me out of my mind.
I heard one of the Rutgers girls say in a press conference yesterday that she was "Scarred for life."
Really?
Look, the guy said something that struck a nerve. It's not like he went completely nuclear like Michael Richards.
Can't we collectively say:
"Wow... Don Imus is kind of a dick..." instead of calling for him to be lynched?In a pot-calling-the-kettle-nappy-vein, reality check:
after the Tiwana Brawley case, Rev. Al
has "zero" right to berate someone for making an ass out of themselves in public.slyphon
Wow, it's a good thing that some of your best friends are black!elayneriggs
This is yet another of HP's campaign to shame the Lynch Mob for Imus into disbanding.Is there no place in America safe for a PC crazed, left wing bigot?
Damn, damn, double damn.
larry278
Don Imus said he was trying to be amusing. What was so funny?He would have gotten a lot less grief (or perhaps grief of a different sort) if he had instead applied that insulting term to a black woman of power who has used that power to the detriment of others; e.g.
Condoleeza Rice.What did the Rutgers basketball players ever do to deserve such treatment?jbl55
Thank You!!!This is making people calling for his ouster look like idiots who cannot tell the difference between the serious and the ridiculous.
The man you quoted, Mr. Lawson, CLEARLY can separate the two.
More power to him!
I agree with Bill Maher on the issue. And given the smart asses like Kathy Griffin, Carlos Mencia and (especially) Lisa Lampanelli who use crude talk and stereotypes, this is just crazy. Why doesn't Sharpton et al. go after the WH who has killed African Americans disproportionately in his idiotic occupation-for-oil versus Imus who said a stupid thoughtless thing?
Let the Rutgers women sue if it's so bad.
But these holier-than-thou protests are pointlessly non-productive.
Fight the real enemy, ya know.
lisakaz
Don't do anything to Imus.WFAN, MSNBC and NBC have been well aware of what Imus has said on his show.
Would they have suspended him in the absence of public outcry?
NO!
Don't apologize, don't fire or suspend him... just take the consequences of you actions like a man. Rev. Sharpton and women and the good people that do not listen to the show have 1st amendment rights too!
Let's stop blaming Rev. Sharpton and Rev Jackson for indignities they protest.
They did not shoot Mr. Dialo 40 some odd times or plunge Mr. Luema's rectum in the police station.
Were it not for the activism of there ministers, those two atrocities would have gone unknown.
hotep