What is the difference between remarks by Dan Imus, and comedians such as Chris Rock?
17 years ago by Black Comedy News
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Some comedians such as have made their careers out disparaging racial remarks against a certain target, and political leaders have done absolutely no less. In all these years, you haven’t seen the main targets of such remarks trying to boycott them or censured them.
But if anyone from that targeted group even implies anything in kind, they are automatically labeled as racist and call for the severest punishments possible.
Can anyone with a TRUE open mind, see the hypocrisy in this?
This is AMERICA. Why should one group be allowed to say anything they want no matter how derrogatory, but another group has to walk on eggshells?
This certain group has claimed that they want equality, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that this group really wants PREFERENTIAL treatment, and will accept no less.
In other words, civility and tolerance has to come FROM ALL SIDES TRULY EQUALLY. Otherwise, we’ll never be able to resolve the racial problems in this country.
To DeeLee:
You obviously have never seen a comedy act by Chris Rock, or you wouldn’t have made such a remark.
He has made a career out of making even worse remarks than that out of white people.
To Nicole J:
With all due respect, but I have heard such self-serving excuses way too many times, and it wore thin a long time ago.
When I was young, I felt guilty, but no more. I’m sick and tired of people using this to excuse their bad behavior and demand that they be given a free pass.
Your group doesn’t hold a monopoly on abuse, lack of self-esteem and other such issues.
Let history stay where it belongs and let’s move on into a TRUE egalitarian society where everyone should be tolerant that we all are infallible human beings, and be willing to take personal responsibility for our actions, instead of excusing our backgrounds… or history. It’s gotten old a long time ago.
I meant to say “fallible”.
I do not recall Chris Rock calling the basketball team of Rutgers Unviersity nappy headed hos. Do you?
I think they should can Rosie for her hatred remarks against America and use her as an example of bad journalism instead of making an example of Imus!
there is no justification for inflammatory speech by anyone.
the whole intent of that type of rhetoric is to stir up the fire.
what all too many expect is that they can say anything and there will be no consequences.
people who willingly run their mouths and spew filth, racial hatred or malign others are their own worst enemy and they alienate the people who support them, they alienate advertisers and they alienate mainstream Americans.
it doesn’t matter what race, creed or color a person is – saying tacky things about other people is still WRONG.
comedians are trying to be funny and make you laugh.
Imus he is just racist it is not the first time he said stuff like that. but i understand your point besides what happen to freedom of speech
I guess if you are black and call someone the “N” word, it means something good…..and if you are any other race and do it, you are racist. But this problem will always exist, guess people like being insulted. In all out honesty, it’s just words, someone could call me a cracker and i would laugh at them. Thats the problem with America as a nation, we are seperated in our country, what makes us think we can unite the world.
Generally spoeaking comics do say worse but do not direct it at a specific person ( or team) as Don did on his radio show. It was a stupid remark and he is getting off easy as far as I can tell. His remarks came off as racially insensitive and gender insensitive also. I never much cared for him before and really dont care at all anymore.
What got Imus into hot water is that he used those terms “directly” toward a named group of people …
If he used those words ( which are on thousand and thousands of CD’s) used those words in a general meaning, there would have been no problems……..
The main problems in this perticular episode, are the aggitators who fan the fire under the falsehood of racism…….
One is white, the other is black. One can be called a racist, but not the other.
I see racism everyday, and it’s done by blacks.
Here’s an idea, let’s drop the labels. You’re either an American, or you’re not. If you want to be called “African-American”, you are declaring yourself an African over an American. Same with “Mexican-American”, or anything other hyphenated label. Either you are, or you’re not. I think that I would sound rather silly saying that I’m an “English-Welsh-German-Native American-American”, but I am. And, oh by the way, I’m planning to sue the African nations for holding my ancestors as slaves.
While I agree with your responce, there are some other issues at hand in this situation. You may not be aware of this unless you grew up in the African-American community, but there is a serious “self-hate” mentality within my race. I know all of America witnesses media portrals of us calling each other n*gg*, b*tch*s and h*s all the time and you also hear some of us ‘justifying’ our use of those terms on ourselves and then getting defensive about someone else doing the same.
Something I want you and others to understand is that it’s only been about 50 years since the civil rights movement. We are “growing up” in our civil freedoms, OK? Think of this as the teenage stage where “everything is everyone else’s fault” and “he’s messing with me so I’m going to get him back.”
Now that I have said that, I also want you to think about this. I’m going to continue with the metaphor of a teenager- Look at the enviroment we have been raised in. Our “step-parents” (White America) brought us over here as free labor to build their worth and power. We were stripped of any knowledge or language of our motherland so we had to develop our own roots. Unfortunately, some of those ‘roots’ are not healthy. Have you ever wondered why so many black women straighten their hair? We started doing it to be accepted within white society. Even today, many black women (especially in the south) feel they have to look a certain way (as white as possible) to be taken seriously. Whether or not we have to from a white standpoint, I don’t know because I personally could care less.
Then, we were ‘freed’ (not because Mr. Lincoln felt black was beautiful, but because green always looks good) and legally kept at the bottom of society for about another 100 years.
So sweetheart, we as a race carry a lot of pain and it doesn’t feel good to have someone who does not come from that same pain to say what Imus did. Call us hypersensitive, childish or closedminded.
While I do not support Jessie Jackson and Sharpton in most circles, I can say this for them- they have actively boycotted and repremanded other African- Americans for promoting demeaning language about ourselves. I honestly think this incident received so much attention because it was a white person making the remarks.