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Smed - 2007-04-10 14:27:12 - http://smedindy.diaryland.com
The issue with playing the 'hip hop' card is that many people who love hip hop aren't minorities, and many people who loathe the 'gangsta' rap and all of that image are minorities. Sharpton himself has called for that crap to get off of the air. To me, Sharpton has always been an opportunist to the extreme. However, the issue to me isn't 'nappy' or what Steve Wonder called himself, it's that the tone of the words 'nappy headed' implied something and 'ho' also delivered. So Imus and his minions were way way way way off base.

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Dave - 2007-04-10 15:10:06 -
Smed, the point that I'm trying to make is this: With all his baggage, Sharpton has no right to be screaming. Yes, Imus was wrong. I don't listen to him, but from what I understand Imus is this way toward EVERYONE. He's insulted all ethnicities (I believe he called someone of Arab descent "raghead", and called a Jewish man a "boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jew boy") and there hasn't been this level of protest. Sharpton spoke out against the rap artists? News to me. Never heard anything about it. Imus, a white man, said something that rap artists regularly say. That's what's unforgivable - a white man said it. If Imus had been black, NOTHING would have been said. If "nappy-headed hos" is such a racist derogatory term, then why isn't there just as much outrage when it's said by a black man?

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Unknown Merchant - 2007-04-11 06:24:50 -
No one is born racist; it's taught by us. But, on the other point, you're right: we're all racist in thinking the HUMAN race is the best race. Comments about out part of ecology and "being one within nature" aside, I can live with your kind of racism just fine; it infers we're all the same across the board, and that's the only thing we need to teach our kids.

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