The comments are obviously offensive in nature and, as you would expect from the black community, they just can't get over the unbearable hurt those two (or three) words from a complete stranger caused them.
The 10 members of the Rutgers team - eight of whom are black - have spoken of their hurt over the "insensitive" comments Mr Imus made in his 4 April show.
Bless their hearts.
The comments are racist AND sexist and it is right that Imus is lambasted for them. But the subsequent media reaction has been a trifle aggressive. The President of a US Christian media watchdog has welcomed the sacking of the DJ. Meanwhile, opinion pieces all around America are filled with guilty liberals trying to assert their own squeaky clean moral superiority by banging on about how America is FILLED with racists and that if you don't "hate" it in the way they do you are a bad, immoral person. Well, guess what - I don't care what Imus said. No American outside of Don Imus and the powers that be at CBS should care about what Imus said. It is an isolated incident. True, it was said publically and thus given a wider exposure by nature. But let's move on, shall we? There are much more important things happening in the world. Such as Iran developing nukes.
Luckily, we do get the odd sensible opinion piece, such as this one which, despite the misleading title, makes the points that freedom of speech should be defended no matter what is being said, that if a black person had made the comments about whites it would have gone largely ignored, and that sticks and stones may break our bones but words can never hurt us. I just wish people would learn that. We also have to remember that Imus is a "shock jock" and so anything he says should probably be ignored or taken very lightly.
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