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Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5129
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 04:47 pm: | 
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...Damn!!! I'm scurrred of THE BLACK MAN |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2051
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 05:20 pm: |
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Yawn............What time are the Lakers playing tonight? |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4106
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 5 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 05:26 pm: |
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Yawn............What time are the Lakers playing tonight?
(Apparently its true that all some Negroes are interested in is basketball. You need to get a job with Imus)
Hey Cynique and Mzuri. Ya boy is canned.
Fix him some flapjacks! |
Jmho
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Username: Jmho
Post Number: 199
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 05:37 pm: |
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Here's some more from USA Today:
CBS fires Don Imus
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters.
Imus initially was given a two-week suspension, to start Monday, for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week, but outrage continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his programs.
"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. "That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision."
Rutgers women's basketball team spokeswoman Stacey Brann said the team did not have an immediate comment on Imus' firing but would be issuing a statement later Thursday evening.
Time Magazine once named the cantankerous broadcaster as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America, and he was a member of the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
But Imus found himself at the center of a storm after his comments. Protests ensued, and one by one, sponsors pulled their ads from Imus' show. On Wednesday, MSNBC dropped the simulcast of Imus' show.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson met with Moonves to advocate Imus' removal, promising a rally outside CBS headquarters Saturday and an effort to persuade more advertisers to abandon Imus.
Sumner Redstone, chairman of the CBS Corp. board and its chief stockholder, told Newsweek that he had expected Moonves to "do the right thing," although it wasn't clear what he thought that was.
The news came down in the middle of Imus' Radiothon, which has raised more than $40 million since 1990 for good causes. The Radiothon had raised more than $1.3 million Thursday before Imus learned that he lost his job.
"This may be our last Radiothon, so we need to raise about $100 million," Imus cracked at the start of the event.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2056
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 06:33 pm: |
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”Apparently its true that all some Negroes are interested in is basketball.”
And? Is there a point to that? If you have taken the time to notice, the overwhelming majority of people paying those high priced tickets to see the NBA are white –not black! Your allegation of being a so-called Negro for watching a sports event makes no sense. Besides, I watch numerous sports events. Wanna try again?
”You need to get a job with Imus.”
Oh really? Why is that? I have no need nor desire to call black female collegiate ball players nappy headed hoes. But Chris, I’m sure you would fit in quite well with Imus given your penchant for bizarre and offensive commentary.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8257
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 06:58 pm: |
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You're so obsessed with me and Mzuri that you can sort things out in your demented mind, can you, chrishayden? I guess you and your sorry ass just can't recall how Mzuri said she wished Imus was dead or that I said I wasn't a fan of his and had, in fact, never even watched him. But you've never been one to let the truth deter you. You're too busy trying to bluff your way into being relevant and failing very badly at it. snort. watta pathetic jerk. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5134
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 01:38 am: |
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BlackAthlete Sports Network-www.blackathlete.net
AllSports
My Conversation With Jesse & Al BeforeThe Imus Beatdown
By Dr. Boyce Watkins
Apr 13, 2007
NEW YORK -- The phone rang on a Sunday morning, the way it normally does. It never stops ringing and my e-mail stays full. I am going to be apologizing to people for the rest of my life, I know it.
I knew that I was set to appear on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s radio show, “Keep Hope Alive”. I didn’t want to wake up so early, since this was a rude interruption to my dream about having Beyonce’s baby.
But for Jesse, I was willing to make an exception, especially since his daughter Santita (also a radio show host), is as sweet as chocolate covered, sugar flavored, barbecue ribs.
Don’t get it twistified: By “sweet” I mean she is a kind person. I am NOT about to flirt with Jesse Jackson’s daughter. He’s taller than I am and looks like he might know karate.
I do most of my radio interviews in my office with no shirt and a bowl of Cheerios. I usually surf the web, watch SportsCenter or get more cereal during the marathon commercial breaks.
I swear that radio commercials are longer than Rush Limbaugh’s list of prescription drugs. But as a finance professor, I know that media must also pay the bills, because that is why they exist. "It’s all about the Benjamins, baby…all about the Benjamins".
We were gathering to discuss some old white dude named Don Imus, the nappy headed hoe who felt the need to attack some black student athletes. I personally wanted to slap him because I am a strong defender of college students and take great offense when they are being exploited or mistreated (i.e. the pimps from the NCAA parading them on TV and letting their mamas live in poverty).
The other guests on the show with me were Al Sharpton and George Curry, head of Black Press USA. I’ve been on shows with Al before, it’s always interesting.
We talked about the Imus situation quite a bit. I had no idea that Imus would be the lead story in the entire country during the following week, but I knew that millions of black people listening were…for lack of a better word….PISSED.
Jesse mentioned that his group was going to boycott the NBC studios in Chicago. Sharpton mentioned that his group was calling for Imus to be fired. I mentioned that my group (consisting of me, my teddy bear, and a bunch of very angry cock roaches) were aiming for something a little different:
We wanted his corporate sponsorship.
As a “money guy”, one thing I know for certain is that corporate sponsorship is the lifeblood of any celebrity personality. Many celebrities would rather have their testicles yanked out of their ears than to lose their corporate sponsors.
The celebs gets money from the network, the network gets money from the sponsors, the sponsors get money from the customers, and customers get their crappy content from the celebrity.
It’s all a vicious circle-cycle. If you cut off one part of that circle, it’s like cutting the intestines inside your body….messy, uncomfortable and humiliating, to say the least.
So, I proposed this: Why don’t we find a list of the companies that advertise on his show and ask them if they know what they are supporting?
Then, we can ask the black community if they know they are supporting corporations who are supporting networks that are supporting nappy headed hoes like Don Imus.
The guys listened respectfully, and I think they agreed. That was my contribution to black history….at least for now.
You can imagine how I felt a couple of days later after hearing that many major corporations were cutting their sponsorship of Imus’ Show. When the money stops coming, it’s like cutting off the water supply to the human body.
Your rep, power, platform and mojo are going to die a slow, painful death. Your homeboy becomes your hater, people stop returning your calls, and unconditional support becomes a little more conditionalized.
We all think that white men stick together like super glue, but like most humans, they too abandon one another when you change from rain maker to pain maker.
One of the things that irked me the most about Imus’ “apology at gunpoint” was that he explained his actions by stating that people in the black community (mostly rappers) were the ones to put that language out there, and that he was simply repeating it.
I again wanted to go to his studio and slap him.
First of all, Imus is NOT a rapper. He is a man who regularly hosts some of the leading political dignitaries of our nation. Had Senator Obama made a similar statement, we would be hanging him out to dry as well.
Secondly, it’s a really bad excuse to say “others have done worse, which is why my actions are ok.” That’s just, as my homies would say “ig-nant”.
I am not sure why Imus feels that the Rutgers women’s basketball team should be the victims of his verbal assaults just because there are some black people who use this language.
Had it even been Tom Joyner making this statement, the outrage against such sexism would have been tremendous. Imus received a greater degree of outrage than Tom Joyner would receive because his comments were both sexist AND racist.
OK, that’s my two cents. It’ll be easy to find another 98 cents worth of opinions, and in the end, we have a dollar. But it’s having that dollar that led to us achieving something that we could not have accomplished 10 years ago.
Don’t get it twistified. A love for black folks is not what led to MSNBC cutting off Imus: This was all about the Benjamins.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Finance Professor at Syracuse University, author of “What if George Bush were a Black Man?” and host of the radio show “Boiling Hot with Boyce Watkins”. For more information, please visit www.boycewatkins.com or www.yourblackworld.com.
© Copyright 2005 by BlackAthlete Sports Network
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Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5135
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 01:51 am: |
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It was recently reported that the number of sponsors pulling out on Imus was heading into the triple digits at last count - ouch!
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8263
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 01:40 pm: |
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I heard something interesting on a panel discussion on MSNBC wherein one black guy made the point that it was not Al Sharpton, but Al Roker, the black weatherman on the "Today" show, who was responsible for the action NBC took. Roker headed up a bunch of black and white NBC employees on the station who demanded that the big-wigs do damage control by firing Imus because his latest offense was the last straw. Another panelist agreed saying that corporate America doesn't really take Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson that serious anymore because they are too self-serving and their influence has dwindled. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4476
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 01:52 pm: |
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I believe it. I had heard a few days ago that Roker was PERTURBED. And he's been around long enough to garner the support of the rest of the Black (and other) employees within NBC to stage a revolt against management. Roker has a semi-substantial television career outside of his weatherman duties and he could walk away from NBC anytime he wants.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4115
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 01:53 pm: |
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Another panelist agreed saying that corporate America doesn't really take Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson that serious anymore because they are too self-serving and their influence has dwindled.
(Damn. You got something right Cynique and I haven't laid my healing hands on your fevered brow yet.
Shows my power over you.
Al and Jessie could have never done this alone. Not only were the victims here some helpless kids who people could line up behind, but Imus had screwed over all kinds of people in the past and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4477
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 01:55 pm: |
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Cynique gets EVERYTHING right, dimwit!  |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8266
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 02:13 pm: |
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I can't take credit for what somebody else said, I can just inform that these comments confirmed what I suspected since I did notice how pissed Al Roker was on the "Today" show.
And is this the same chrishayden who went beserk when I said that Al Sharpton hadn't kicked ass and didn't have his finger on the pulse of white middle America who was probably sympathetic to Imus. Apparently all you have to do is say what chrishayden wants to hear and he becomes a pussy cat while taking credit for your "conversion." |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1997
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 06:47 pm: |
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Al Roker is married to a BEAUTIFUL black woman, has at least one daughter that I'm aware of, and is highly intelligent (probably even more so than he makes apparent) so I think he makes the perfect man to demand something be done about it.
And I'm willing to bet money there are no Snoop Dogg or 50 Cent cd's in his home. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2061
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 05:21 am: |
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Well, the good thing is hopefully this entire over-rated media for ratings circus will be over with now. Yes, Imus fucked up. We all know that. But the melodrama and pyrotechnic race theatrics that followed was just as pathetic as his comments. Throw in the antics of the self serving kings of snake oil politics and hyperbole, Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, you have an electrified carnival for race baiters and political hacks on both sides. Time to move on......
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