Do you know the difference in this ^ ?Are they both fiction,as you claim?Was Imus in front of an audience who were there for a laugh?Ask yourself that.

““Your comparisons are,honestly,laughable.You’re comparing what Imus said to those girls to an insect?”
-Again, you can continue to attack my intellect, but you know exactly my point. Insects are seemingly insignificant insects. Imus’ words are insignificant words and should be treated like insects and disregarded just as easily. And you knew full well what I meant by that.”

Yeah,racism is insignificant,Martin Luther King was just a fly on white people’s shoulders,right?I wonder,did you click those links I posted?

“You’re telling me that it’s offensive because they applied white makeup in order to have a better story?”
-YES! Just like black-face is offensive, painting yourself and dressing like white women is offensive.”

You seem to be ignoring a very simple fact:White Chicks is a movie.A comedy movie.A fiction.A work of art with no whatsoever truth to it.Think about this for a second,before you try to defend your false statements.

“Wait,you think Imus isn’t popular?Do you know that his show has millions of listeners?”
-Of course I know this. Snoop Dogg has millions of fans but I don’t take him seriously. In fact, if Snoop came on the air right now and said “pale-faced honkey’s”, I doubt you would even give him the time of day.”

You think I wouldnt care if Snoop uttered those words?You have an image of me,you think i’m simply defending the girls because most of them are black.Sorry to disappoint you,this is not the case.When Isaiah called that other man a “faggot”,I not only wanted him to apologize,I wanted him to be taught a lesson.I’m not a homosexual,yet I chose to defend one.Why is that?

“Claiming that what Imus said was a blunder is ignorance…Why is he apologizing if he can say whatever he wants”
- Again, attacking my intellect. The definition of a blunder is a careless mistake. Everybody has recognized what Imus said as careless”

Ask yourself why I say it is ignorant to think so before you assume i’m attacking your intellect.Why didn’t he apologize on the spot if it was a careless mistake?Why did he laugh instead of halt after he had said those racist comments?You and I both know the answers to these questions.

“Obviously we disagree. You have the right to attack my intellect (as you have been doing, and as I have refrained from doing to you), and I have the right to debate with you, but we both know that **these are mearly words**. When it’s all said and done, people will realize what Imus said are just words.”

No,I haven’t been attacking your intellect,I have been questioning your brow raising comments.We’ll never agree nor do I expect us to reach an agreement after 5/50 more responses.We simply have a very different view on the matter.
I’ve never and will never take racism as just words,and quite frankly,neither should you.

“So racism isn’t true,it’s fiction?Do you think that because those girls are not whores,that calling them so wont have any effect on them?”
-No, I am saying to you that my mother is not a “red light district slut”. So honestly, that remark would not bother me at all. That’s what is “fictitious” about Imus’ remark…it is in fact…FICTION. Not fiction like “it didn’t happen”; fiction in the sense that they are not- in any way- “nappy headed ho’s”.

“Claiming that what Imus said was a blunder is ignorance…Why is he apologizing if he can say whatever he wants”
- Again, attacking my intellect. The definition of a blunder is a careless mistake. Everybody has recognized what Imus said as careless. He has said, and I quote “It was completely inappropriate…insensitive and ill-conceived…Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry”. He apologized because he was pressured by the media and people like you who flipped out over what he said. You continue to call my assertions ignorant, but you can’t truly believe that. Just because he apologized doesn’t mean it wasn’t a blunder. In fact, it means it WAS.

“You’re telling me that it’s offensive because they applied white makeup inorder to have a better story?”
-YES! Just like black-face is offensive, painting yourself and dressing like white women is offensive. You continue to defend the Wayans Bros and it’s truly astounding. Why are you defending “White Chicks”? It’s an offensive movie and you know it. And don’t belittle my intelligence by making my statement a broad-brush for the ENTIRE movie business. I am not an imbecile. I know that actors act…that’s not the point I was making and you know that. How is it “baseless” to compare controversial entertainment to controversial entertainment? You know “White Chicks” is offensive but you keep trying to cover it up with these broad strokes and questions.

“What is the difference between Dave Chappelle’s SKIT and Imus’s racist comment?If you can’t find a difference,then I overestimated you.”
-Oh, I’ll tell you with brevity. 3 words vs. 3 Seasons.

“Your comparisons are,honestly,laughable.You’re comparing what Imus said to those girls to an insect?”
-Again, you can continue to attack my intellect, but you know exactly my point. Insects are seemingly insignificant insects. Imus’ words are insignificant words and should be treated like insects and disregarded just as easily. And you knew full well what I meant by that.

“Wait,you think Imus isn’t popular?Do you know that his show has millions of listeners?”
-Of course I know this. Snoop Dogg has millions of fans but I don’t take him seriously. In fact, if Snoop came on the air right now and said “pale-faced honkey’s”, I doubt you would even give him the time of day. You know why? Snoop should not and never be held with that height of respect; neither should Imus.

Obviously we disagree. You have the right to attack my intellect (as you have been doing, and as I have refrained from doing to you), and I have the right to debate with you, but we both know that **these are mearly words**. When it’s all said and done, people will realize what Imus said are just words.

Columnist Mike Barnicle gives his take on the comments made by Imus regarding the Rutgers Women’s basketball team:

Mike Barnicle: “You know Don, watching that press conference yesterday with the Rutgers woman’s basketball team, it struck me that we were watching, those of us who were watching, we’re watching the varsity of life, we weren’t watching just a varsity basketball team, these young women represent the varsity of life. I have been in the news business for four decades, I am an older white guy, I’m your age, I’m Chuck’s age, more often than not I put on a suit of cynicism because of the business I’m in. I think at heart I am an optimist, I’m a Catholic, and I view this, especially after yesterday’s press conference, is God telling us, telling you specifically in this case, as we stand on the 18th green, we can see the clubhouse off in the distance, we know this is the final round for us, that God is coming up to you in this case and he said Don, how would you like the opportunity at this stage in your life to become a better person? And he’s giving you that opportunity, and these young women are giving you that opportunity and in a sense they are giving us all that opportunity Don, because one of the great things, disgraceful things about this country, is that we continually neglect to have a discussion about race in America. You can go through all the political statements and press releases issued by every candidate running for president and they very rarely talk about race, the dilemma, the gulf of race in this country and we ought to talk about it more. We ought to put it on the table and discuss the huge discrepancy, the vast discrepancies in this life. I was thinking about it–I’ve been thinking about it for several days now, in the wake of what has happened here, especially reflecting upon the tsunami of hypocrisy that surrounds you and this issue, and it’s a national issue because of who you are and the fact that you broadcast from New York, the media capital of the world and you have all sorts of media people, people much more luminous than I on your program, on TV and radio, and that is part of the reason that it’s so big. But fifteen, sixteen years ago not only in Boston and other cities in this country there was a crack epidemic and the explosion of crack, the drug gave young kids, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years of age the ability to become freelance gangsters. They no longer had to get their product from other people, other richer peoples, mob peoples, they could do it themselves and they started killing themselves. I can remember during the summers of 1992 and 1993 I think three times a week in the Boston Globe for either both summers or one summer I wrote nearly every column from June through September about the number of black men getting killed in the streets of the city of Boston. About halfway through that summer people of good heart and good intentions would come up to me and say hey, Johnny one note, lay off of us huh? Write something about the Red Sox would yah? Get off of that. It’s too dreary. It’s too dreary a topic and it is a dreary topic. And it’s a dreary topic in our public schools that are so geared against people of color, so geared against people of less income than we make, so geared against people who have no clout, so geared against people who can’t call, never mind the school principal about the lousy education their kids are getting, they can’t even call the teacher, so geared against people who come from fractured home lives, so this could be a great learning experience, I know it has been for you already because I know you. But it can be a magnificent ongoing learning experience for the country. I am sure that when Al Sharpton lit up New York City over race with Tawana Brawley he learned something from it and became a better person. I am sure that Jesse Jackson when he referred to everyone living in New York City as living in “hymie town”, I’m sure he learned something from it and became a better person as I am sure Don that you are going to become a better person and have become a better person in the space of a week and so I’m optimistic.”

I wont even bother anymore,if you still think this issue is insignificant,then what’s the point?

But let me clear some comments you said:

“Second, I wouldn’t feel offended because those things ARE NOT TRUE.”
So racism isn’t true,it’s fiction?Do you think that because those girls are not whores,that calling them so wont have any effect on them?

“First, my entire argument thus far has been that these girls and everyone else needs to disregard these 3 measly words as a blunder on Imus’ part and move on.”
Whoa there.Hmm,if it was a blunder,why didn’t he offer an apology on the spot?Why did he continue and not try and correct his mistakes then and there?Claiming that what Imus said was a blunder is ignorance.Wasn’t your claim that since he’s a shock jock he can say whatever he wants?Then why do you now consider it a blunder?Why is he apologizing if he can say whatever he wants,since you think that only if he had touched those girls it would then be offensive,why is he apologizing for words he uttered?

“So because it was made with comedic intentions it was OK?”You just answered your own question.They made a comedic movie filled with fiction,lies,fakeness,etc.You’re telling me that it’s offensive because they applied white makeup inorder to have a better story?Are the Wayans brother’s white women,or did they play white women in the movie?By your logic,then 95% of hollywood movies are offensive,since they portray characters of different culture,occupation,color,etc.?I guess Will Smith was offensive when he acted like a soldier in Independence day,because he’s not really a soldier,right?Maybe,Jennifer Lopez was offending all maids in the world because she portrayed one in Maid In Manhattan?Was Leonardo Di Caprio offending South African men when he acted as a South African man in Blood Diamond?
Your comparison of ficticious work of art to what Imus said is baseless.

“Dave Chappelle can do a skit on “the Nigger family”; and Imus can say ‘nappy-headed ho’s’.”
For this comment,i’ll simply ask you:What is the difference between Dave Chappelle’s SKIT and Imus’s racist comment?If you can’t find a difference,then I overestimated you.

“These girls should take this as a fly on their shoulder”
Your comparisons are,honestly,laughable.You’re comparing what Imus said to those girls to an insect?Do you honestly believe that anyone with half a brain will ignore this issue?Ask yourself,why is a male(Me),even debating this issue?I’m not female,I don’t know either one of those girls and I may never meet them,but why am I here debating with you?

“but Don Imus?? Imus?? Come on.”

Wait,you think Imus isn’t popular?Do you know that his show has millions of listeners?I hope you know this.

We’ll never agree on this issue,and I can understand why you believe his racist comments shouldn’t be such a major topic.But the fact of the matter is,it is,and it isn’t going anywhere for the time being.

So if anyone thinks rappers don’t catch hell for calling woman bitches and hoes, they are wrong. So there really is no double standard. It’s not acceptable in the black community, and it certainly isn’t acceptable coming from this moron.