These should have been the points of the Imus discussion, but got little or no play that I heard:
1. Even though Imus had no value as even a radio personality, it's bunk that he got fired for trying to sound like something more virile than the walking mummy he is.
1a. It's bunk upon bunk that no one's admitted to knowing that Don Imus is, in fact, not racist. It's 2007 and we still have to pretend white people only use rap slang in derogatory mockery, never in playful (or) admiring emulation? Nigga please.
2. And he gets actually fired, to boot? Anyone else reminded of the IRS using whatshisname to make an example out of tax-evading celebrities?
3. This blog is maybe too young to take on Godwin's Law (so I'll just suggest it), but is there any way at all to see Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and I'm sure there's more whose names I'll never know, as valiant champions of unloved downtrodden who never, never get a fair shake? With the Imus stoning, aren't we at the point where that story doesn't hold water anymore? How have black organizations not been full-on thugs here, crushing someone because he said something they didn't care for, otherwise having caused them no injury?
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