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Originally Posted by Rekna
ace the point is there is hostility toward white people from the black community. I'm still trying to see what part Imus's comment brought in race. The word Hos isn't racial it is sexist. Nappy haired could be racist but i'm not so sure i'd consider that to be a racist comment. Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson have jumped on this because it is another case where they can claim racism even though they will ignore the reverse case any time. Look at hip hop lyrics and tell me there isn't plenty of anti-white lyrics.
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In addition to the way they speak about women.
So, how many of those women decided to throw out their rap music? I'm betting.....none.
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Originally Posted by Mixedmedia
White people in America have never had to live in a world where they were treated as second-class. Black people have. My parents remember it. Al Sharpton remembers it. It was not so long ago. That's a key difference. Is it really that hard to understand? The sensitivity is there because of our very real and painful recent past. It's just not funny for a white person to denigrate a black person because our common consciousness remembers what it was like when racism was common and acceptable.
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But it's ok for every black comedian from Richard Pryor to Dave Chapelle to do racist comedy? Hey, I laugh at their routines, because they're funny. If Imus had done some bit that was funny that included his three words or if Dave Chapelle did, this wouldn't even be news.
It was and is also acceptable to do jokes about Jews and if a black comedian does them, all the better. So what?
I would tell the women on the team that Imus was talking about to also get over themselves. He's not a freakin politico, not someone with any worldly power...he's a radio personality, he's been doing this stuff for 40 years.
This country is really getting way too thinskinned about everything.....