nice post. I read an article by a Washington Post columnist this morning that said something of the kind -- that firing Imus does less to amend the situation than having him talk women's basketball up on his show. There are still huge disparities in how women's sports are treated. FWIW, I can't remember her name but the picture shows an older white woman. I mention this as it may speak to perspective. I am not a sports fan, but she may have a point. Rutgers has taken the championship something like six times. You would think that would be enough to get them some respect.
>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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232505 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
