Don Imus was speaking with the producer of the show, Bernard McGuirk about the Rutgers Women's basketball team who had lost the championship game. The exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of yuppies on more than 70 stations and MSNBC. So in case you don't have the details, here's exactly what was said:
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ..."
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that now," Imus said.
Momentarily digressing, I'm fairly confident "nappy-headed" is uttered every second about Black chicks by someone somewhere in this country alone; the "hos" part I'm positive is uttered at least twenty-five times every second. If you somewhat agree with those numbers, then you'll have to agree that within a twenty four hour period, "nappy-headed," is said approximately 86,400 times a day and "hos" . . . roughly 2,160,000, and I'm likely being light on both of those figures. So why is it such a big deal when mentioned together? Ahh, that is the question, indeed.
Back on track, outrage then exploded because this particular Caucasian, white-collar republican referenced a bunch of Black chicks as "nappy-headed hos" and all I can wonder is why? Firstly, Black people have nappy hair, which is why Black chicks all have wigs unless they're broke and try to make it seem like they're solely going to bring back the disco era. And hos, well, they're in every creed. Far too many hos around these parts as of late, let me tell ya. The uproar isn't even about the "ho" part, though. If Don Imus had said, "That's some nappy-headed astronauts," the same shit would have happened in the media, which is totally fucking stupid and pisses me off severely.
What crap. If those three words were enunciated by Katt Williams or Dave Chappelle at one of their shows, no member of the audience would give a shit. Twice over, all those Rutgers broads attending either show would have laughed at the comedian then started pointing at one another to gesticulate who the biggest ho of the team was---there's the focal point.
That's what everyone should be concentrated on: the ol' double standard bullshit. Even if Howard Stern said "nappy-headed hos," no one would give a shit because you'd almost expect it. Fucking five years ago I know damn well Mancow would have said it, but that's another story what happened with that guy.
So because Don Imus is not only a White man, but a personality who's supposedly taken more seriously than the before mentioned, everyone's in an uproar. Horseshit. It's like, "Oh, Don, we expected so much more from you. How could you let us down like that?" And then it would be like, "Oh, Howard, you silly bastard you. Will your seemingly everlasting wit never cease?" It's all bullshit, man. It's the
EXACT same shit as ten years ago when Clinton got sucked off by the intern.
He was married, got a blow-job, and might or might not have stuck a cigar in Monica's pussy. Well stop the fucking presses because he's the president! It's a goddamn outrage because we respect Bill Clinton more than Prince Charles, who, by the way, cheated on the late Princess Diana with a woman he's now married to. Man, even fuck all you mullet-headed hos for thinking any of this is a big deal . . . Same assholes who care if Brad Pitt stuck it to Angelina Jolie while on Jennifer Aniston's watch. Douche bags.
So, of course, Reverend Al Sharpton had to go on The Today Show to further rid the cotton from under his dead ancestor's fingernails by saying Imus should be fired. Three days ago Sharpton said, "Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media."---Funny, that's the same thing I'm thinking every time the news comes on and I hear reports of the innocent dying because of some stray bullets coming from the under-educated who share the same race as he. It's also the same thing I thought when I saw ‘Juice' and ‘Menace II Society,' but what the fuck do I know, eh?
"We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this," Sharpton continued.
I couldn't agree more, Mr Sharpton. Affirmative Action has failed on a massive level and we need to stop it now. Oh, my fault, you weren't talking about injustices to the working White man for having to pick up the slack of
some people who aren't exactly renowned for being diligent workers. Whatever.
The coach of this Rutgers team, Vivian Stringer is a real peach, too. Funny lady. So fucking funny that I bet many people who respect her probably choked on a chicken bone during dinner when she so coyly farted out her mouth with this one:
"The 'C' stands for coach."
Well not in this house,
cunt.
Oh my God, this broad acted like someone dug up her dead mother to rip out a gold tooth or something. "It is more than the Rutgers women's basketball team. It is all women's athletes. It is all women," said Stringer. Get the fuck over yourself and take a look around the world at what women are doing, you dumb bitch! Be glad those chicks are playing basketball and not doing whatever needs to be done so they got gas money to get to the joint that has the pole so they can make money to give to their pimp or stuff whatever it is up their noses. Derogotory slang: this type of shit is said every second of every day in every city in every state. So fucking what Don Imus said it publically. It's not like after he spoke it instilled anything in people's heads that wasn't already there when their heads left the pillow that
oh-so tragic morning.
One of the strip clubs I work at has predominantly Black clientele and I got called a pecker wood roughly three weeks ago. There were no camera crews around to hear my sob story nor did I pull out a gun and shoot him because I didn't get respect. Get real.
I can't remember exactly because I was still wetting the bed back then, but in 1984 Jesse Jackson referenced New York City as
hymietown, off-the-record, to reporters. Jackson later admitted his "error," saying "Charge it to my head . . . not to my heart." Well, isn't that an awfully large poetic safety net. Shit . . . Even if I did hate Hitler because of what he did to my grandparents, that comment still wouldn't make me wanna duct tape Rosa Parks to a chain tied around the exhaust pipe rather than simply tossing her stubborn ass to the back of the bus. In essence, who gives a shit what other people say or who they think they are? Are you comfortable with yourself or not? If not, fuck off, 'cause it ain't my problem.
Whatever. Basically, if words hurt then definitely go bury your head in the sand because life gets a whole lot harder than relying on what other people think of you, say to you, or say about you to make yourself feel virtuous.
So, heads up, White people. Just to let you know so ya don't ever fuck it up again, "nappy-headed ho" is now basically the same thing as saying "nigger." Imus fucked it up for everyone . . . and just when Kevin Smith had given us back "porch monkey."
And don't even think about calling me racist. "Stereotypical, fascist, asshole," is fine. But not racist. I can find plenty of reasons to hate people on an individual level rather than their color.
On a side note, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are two funny mother fuckers . . . and look what they get away with simply because they rule so much. I didn't hear Vivian or even Condoleza crying about this episode:
So basically everyone who got in an uproar about Don Imus' comment thinks that people who listen to Don Imus matter more than the people who watch South Park. That's about what I'm getting out of this. Take a moment if you have to and really think about how stupid that is.
Z.
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