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...There is a collective mixture of guilt, shame, anger and resentment given our past with slavery that makes it difficult for us to have an honest discussion. I don't believe we will see the end of it in my lifetime. It is still very raw. Ask Don Imus...
Ousted on-air personality DON IMUS is suing his erstwhile employer CBS, saying the company contractually required him to be "irreverent" and even "controversial." (Contract fulfilled!) Media blogsite JOSSIP poses this koan: "When a disgraced former radio host gets fired ... and there's still $40 million left on his contract, will anyone write him a check?" SCORE...
...Whitney also defends comedians of all political stripes, from fired shock jock Don Imus - "He's has been doing that crap since the beginning of time. Don't draw a line in the sand while a guy is walking over it" - to libertarian Bill Maher - "Don't agree with him, bless his heart. But he's hilarious." Comedians, Whitney says, are like beverages. "Everybody has different taste." (Whitney says he's Coors Light...
Immediately after the Imus flap, you spoke out against hip-hop censorship. Now, you want rappers and media outlets to stop using these terms over the airways. Doesn't this make you a hypocrite? -Keyon Jeff, Houma, La.No. I think it is some self-analysis. The outrage [over the Imus situation] made me think about it. I am allowed to have a different opinion...
...claimed to oppose the censorship he’s now proposing. Ten days before requesting the deletion of the three reprehensible words, Simmons defended hip hop artists from critics who claimed that what they say about women in their songs is just as vile as what Don Imus said about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. “Sometimes their observations or the way in which they choose to express their art may be uncomfortable for some to hear,” he said of rappers, “but our job is not to silence...