Unsought Input

Unless you’ve been under a rock I’m sure you’ve heard of the Don Imus controversy. They underlying point of this whole thing is free speech. Yeah Don Imus made a bad joke that wasn’t PC, but in this country he has that right under the 1st amendment.

The point of free speech isn’t to protect speech that you like and isn’t offensive, but the kind that is. Pretty much anything you say someone will be offended by. This country is made up of diverse groups of people from different backgrounds. Its impossible to know every little thing that will hurt people’s feelings. And if you do you should be able to say your sorry and move on, not his witch hunt that is currently happening. I can’t stand it when people say, “I’m for free speech, but…”, no there’s no but, either people should be allowed to say whatever they want or they shouldn’t there’s no middle ground.

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Don Imus is all over the news. CNN, the radio, newspapers. Everywhere you turn you see Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton denouncing him, protesting him, making demands that he be fired.

It’s because he called some basketball players “nappy-headed hoes.” He’s apologized, and now he’s lost his radio show, but I don’t blame Jackson and Sharpton for continuing to call for marches, punishment, and penalties. Imus has been around for a while and he should know by now that you don’t go on the radio and call black women “nappy-headed hoes.”

You call them bitches. And also hoes. And then you threaten them, and tell them to Get Low:

To the window, to the wall, (to dat wall)
To the sweat drop down my balls (MY BALLS)
To all these bitches crawl (crawl)
To all skeet skeet motherfucker (motherfucker!) all skeet skeet got dam (Got
dam)

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