Im Gonna Have to Defend Don Imus

Don Imus has become a lightning rod for tons of shit that's wrong with our culture that he maybe tapped into but certainly isn't responsible for. There is plenty of really heinous racism in this country. I really don't think Don Imus has much to do with any of it. What he said was pretty distastful. But I really hate when someone draws a bunch of fire for basically telling the truth that happens to be politically incorrect or offensive to certain parties. The Rutgers women's basketball team are not hoes. But they pretty much ARE nappy headed, they pretty much ARE mannish and I'm guessing they probably DO more closely resemble the Toronto Raptors than they do the Tennessee women's team. If he made a joke calling muscular female atheletes lesbians rather than hoes, no one would care.

Its just ridiculous that he should be fired. He's made plenty of other racist comments before, like calling Arabs rag heads, and Jews money grubbers. If stereotypes weren't true, they wouldn't persist. Most arabs DO wear cloth on their heads, most Jews are wealthy and very tight with their spending. Most white people are stupid, have a terrible sense of personal style, and can't dance as well as black people. Most Mexican people, whatever, you get the idea. Why are people offended by things that are predominantly true?

Again, I'll say that calling them hoes is unfounded, but Rush Limbaugh says things 10 times as outrageous every single time he's on the air, why isn't anyone firing him?