Okay, maybe Imus shouldn't have called some innocent collegiate women athletes
"nappy headed ho's". I don't find it to be the
most offensive racist message I've ever heard lately though, I mean it's not like he used an actual slur, or vulgarity, or called for thier exclusion due to thier 'race'. After all, racism is really all about bigotry in motion. Maybe he made an inappropriate physical critique with some biggoted/sexist overtones, but the reaction to it seems to be the real surprise story for me.
And it's a shame too, because there is plenty of real racism in this country allready. Sure, theres
plenty of people like
myself that consider all humans equal, until they prove otherwise. But
a lot of people I know are mildly to extremely prejudiced. Black, White, Asian, Mexican, Central and South American, all with degrees and divisions amongst themselves, all seemingly getting more divisive and more aggressive against each other as time goes on. Concentrating on petty issues like the Imus event distracts from real issues that should be addressed. The real issue to me being that we are currently engaged in full-blown, economically waged and
nuclear class warfare on a global scale. The mega-rich and connected are fucking us all, distracting us with emotionally charged bullshit that stimulates or fear laden minds into looking the other way while they
stick it deeper in our
collective asses.
I'm still not sure this event would garner the media firestorm it has without a lot of people in this country not wanting to talk about the important things anymore. Why the fuck is this national news? Why has the 'Current Affair/Fox' model that was laughed at in the early 90's become the standard format for deciding a full 50% of what is 'National News'? People might call it paranoid, but does it really make sense that what was called sensationalist, intelectual trash 10-20 years ago passes as responsible journalism today? Do you really think that could happen on accident? That the laws governing corporate media-monopolies could be changed
just in time for this 'dark age' to begin? Isn't it obvious to everyone that it's really
the other way around? And will anyone under 30 even relate to what the fuck I'm saying anyway? They never saw the strong and responsible people that
were back then, and I feel sorry for them for that. But the young people of today should be made aware that they are being ripped off in ways thier grandparents and great-grandparents would have shot at people over.
The lesson for today is that no matter what you do, now you must
apologize to Al Sharpton, for some unknown fucking reason.
Oh, and all I really have to say about Al Sharpton is two words:
Tawana Brawley
from the wiki:
The case still hangs over Sharpton, particularly following his entry into mainstream politics (his race for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination involved his addressing the convention from its podium), not merely because he defended Brawley's story well after its veracity came into question but for the unfounded accusations he leveled, and, according to some of his critics, his "playing the race card".
And people still listen to him again why?
Thanks for listening MF, soap box rant finished. Now go get drunk and shop with your own kind, and pay your fucking taxes. Peasants.