On 4/13/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And there's already been blow back from this: The Rutgers team is > getting hate emails and I think it's going to get worse.
They are getting hate mail? Hmmm, better put that "Racism is over!" parade on hold, then. People (like me) are sick of black America portraying themselves as > victims. Once they were, but that time is over. Every heard of Ken > Chennult, Stan O'neal, or Oprah Winfrey? They're all self made > billionaires (or at least multi-millionaires) in business. Then > there's media, sports, etc. I can't agree with that, entirely. Being a "victim" doesn't necessarily just END. A little over 45 years ago, black people were still forced to use different restrooms, different drinking fountains, etc. They were still considered "less than human". 45 years is merely a tick of the clock as far as social evolution goes. The ills begotten on an entire race of people can have repurcussions that continue for centuries. I don't think we can just flippantly dismiss a hundred years of racism and bigotry with a simple "I'm sorry, get over it". When you invoke race in a derogatory statement, it dredges up an awful history, and i think I can appreciate the kind of response that could stir in some people. So I"m supposed to feel "boo hoo" for some girls that were jokingly > called a name, a mild one at that which causes confusion? Especially > when they allow themselves to be called that all of the time in their > own media choices? Especially when that name is an invention of > "their culture" that they embrace? yes, you should, because those women did absolutely NOTHING to deserve ANYTHING derogatory. They got to the final game of the NCAA woman's basketball championship for shit's sake!! Nope, I got no sympathy for that. You are letting the over reaction of some agenda driven people (Jackson, Sharpton, the idiot CBS execs who fired him) taint where your sympathies should lie. It was rightly pointed out that what he said was stupid and insensitive. He rightly apologized. The Rutgers woman rightly met with him and accepted his apology. It should have ended right then and there. Now that it's gone further, Imus has become a victim...and in rightly feeling that he has been railroaded, you've let yourself forget that you should, in fact, have sympathy for the people who were unfairly and unjustly thrown into this spotlight in the first place because of Imus' stupidity. -- I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yelling at me again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232456 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
