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Why was Imus Allow to Remain on the Air for so long? Wonkette Speaks

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Do the right thing.

4 Words.

So simple.

But not necessarily because it requires you to think of the impact that your words AND OR your silence has on others.

Do the Right Thing Brings me to Wonkette and how she along w/ the many other White people appeared on Imus despite what he said, because he helped her shine.


As the invites kept coming, I found myself succumbing to the clubhouse mentality that Imus both inspires and cultivates. Sure, I cringed at his and his crew’s race-baiting (the Ray Nagin impersonations, the Obama jokes) and at the casual locker-room misogyny (Hillary Clinton’s a “bitch,” CNN news anchor Paula Zahn is a “wrinkled old prune”), but I told myself that going on the show meant something beyond inflating my precious ego. I wasn’t alone. As Frank Rich noted a few years ago, “It’s the only show … that I’ve been on where you can actually talk in an informed way ? not in sound bites.” Yeah, what he said!

1. For the record, a reasonable person would infer that “casual locker room” placed infront of misogyny was intended to soften the crudeness of the term misogyny.

But It doesn’t. It merely demonstrates what she thinks is acceptable language from a man that helps HER get cake.

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Girl. Don’t be embarrased have some integrity.

And ask yourself.

What OTHER clubs am I a member of whose entrace price requires a jar of vaseline and extended periods where I suspend my integrity?

And here is where the gettin’ gets good.

It’s depressingly easy to find female journalists who will tolerate or ignore bigotry if it means getting into the boys’ club someday. (If only I were the only one.)

This astute observation brings me to another questions.

At the end of the day do the Wonkettes of the world feel more kinship w/ the nappy headed ho’s or the boys clubs of the world?

Based on her article and previous appearances. Her choice was clear.

Perhaps the future will tell us something different The Wonkettes will Do the Right Thing.

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Blog fam.

I am clearly on a tear w/ this topic.

You know what it is.

Here @ MM, we talk about these topics all the time.

But now the rest of the world is yapping, so we have oodles of
good source material. NICE!

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Why was Imus allowed to stay on the air for so long? White People’s Complacency w/ bigotry. Part I.

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I thihk that its dope that Post Imus (p.i) there is more dialogue ABOUT how harmful g-rap is and a very small, yet significant conversation on about the WHITE PEOPLE who appeared to benefit on his show.

White Privilage Analysis.

De.lic.ious.

So far, only two white people have written about the benfits of rockin’ with Imus.

1. Ann Marie Cox aka Wonkette.

2. Sam Tanenhaus
Sam basically says that he was able to look the other way when it came to Imus’s bigotry because Imus helped him shine.

Cool. At least he aknowledging it.

For a period lasting many months I was one of Mr. Imus?s collaborators, or enablers ? in fact one of the more conspicuous ones. In October 1997, when I was a freelance writer, a friend phoned with the news that Mr. Imus had begun talking up my book, ?Whittaker Chambers: A Biography.? He did not succeed in making it a best seller, as he did in some other cases, but his efforts resulted, by my estimation, in an additional 10,000 sales, plenty for a densely footnoted biography with a $35 price tag.

More gratifying still were the letters and phone calls from readers, not the presumed yahoos we?ve been hearing about in recent days, but civil and courteous people from all walks of life ? students, retirees, history buffs and, in some instances, professional authors ? who also were part of Mr. Imus?s following.

Which brings me to the contributory negligence.

You see. In life. We all give up a little bit of our integrity for something.

Its the way the game is played.

Below, Sam disloses how he gave up some of his for some Imus Shine.

By now, I was tuning in regularly. It had become part of my routine: waking up each morning to WFAN and the frisson of hearing my name broadcast on the radio. Of course, I was hearing other things, too, and they were disturbing at times: slurs against black athletes, an ?impersonation? of Clarence Thomas that didn?t sound like him at all (unlike the impersonations of white figures), but instead drew on the stalest of the ?here come de judge? grotesqueries of a previous era; the almost continual soundtrack of leering sexual comments.

Today, in the harsh light of Mr. Imus?s disgrace, it is hard to explain why none of this bothered me very much. But the truth is I tuned it out. One reason, I think, is that my position seemed paradoxical. I was pleased to have been admitted into Mr. Imus?s club ? alongside famous columnists and TV pundits and celebrated authors.

My only question for Sam and other white men is, WHAT ELSE ARE YOU TUNING OUT IN ORDER TO BE A “MEMBER OF THE CLUB?”

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Talk about being contributorily negligent.

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Im posting today yall, then imma cut back. Gotta go down the rabbit hole. Its that time of year. I will respond to your comments tho.

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All I wanna do is just ride around shinin’..

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Go head and LEARN UP on the mexican Bill Gates.

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When I see sh*t like this, first thing I say, is I hope it ain’t in Oakland, then I say, I hope it ain’t Black people. You know how you be holding yo breath and sh*t.

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Why in the hell is this Bullsh*t on instead of my Simpsons.
Don’t Fox KNOW that this is how I get my head right for FOUR hours straight of
class on Mondays.

F*cking F*ckwads.

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Subway hero dude learns. Mo Money, Mo Prollems.

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At the end of February, Wesley heard from Robert Autrey Sr. for the first time in three decades. His father had been living in Pensacola, in sporadic touch with Wesley?s mother but never with him.

?He had a mild heart attack,? Wesley says. ?He ended up in the hospital, and his sister called my mom?s house, and I picked up the phone.?

Wesley called his father at the hospital. ?I don?t hold no grudges.?

What did his father say?

?That he was happy for me doing what I?d done, you know?? Wesley pauses. ?Then him, like everybody else, ?I need, I want, give me.'”

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“Unfortunately, it doesn’t fully surprise me. The perception that the Bronx is some lawless place that you have to be fearful of is just not true.”

I heart the Bronx.

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Obama is getting that hip hop scrill and n*ggas is trippin.

Dear Helen Kennedy,

Democrats ANNNNNNNND Republicans get that Hip Hop cake.

Everytime a corporation, that has a label that employs a gangster rapper,
donates to the Dems/Repubs, the Corporations, the dems, the repubs, benefit.

It isn’t a democratic thang.

Its a power thang.

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German dudes wanna shoot @ n*ggas in the Bronx. Nice!

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How Imus know n*ggas call women ho’s in rap music?

He lissen’ to Snoop?

Jay?

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Hello Black America, Philadelphia is calling.

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I love Philly. I love New Orleans, Detroit and Oakland too.

D.C. can get it also.

That being said, this article appealed to me, so I gaffled it. Enjoy.

In a hospital emergency room, a young man winces as doctors try to determine how badly he has been injured.

His name is Karim Williams, he is 27, and he is this city?s latest shooting victim. He says he was hit around 12:30 a.m. by a shot fired while he was walking from his girlfriend?s car into a bar.

Mr. Williams was fortunate. The bullet went through his leg without hitting bone or major blood vessels, and after a shot of morphine and a few hours? observation, he will be discharged from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania back into the West Philadelphia night.

In some ways, Mr. Williams is a typical patient at the trauma unit: young, mildly intoxicated and apparently with no idea why he was shot. What makes his case less common, doctors here say, is that he is neither seriously injured nor dead, since Philadelphia is in the midst of an epidemic of gun violence that has left the police struggling to preserve public safety and government officials renewing efforts to tighten the state?s gun control laws.

I wonder how many dudes will have to die before……the national guard is called.

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This year, the pace of the killings has worsened; as of Friday the death toll stood at 110, or 16 percent higher than at the same time last year. By comparison, in New York City, with six times the population, there were 102 homicides from Jan. 1 to April 8, a drop of almost 24.4 percent from the same period a year ago. The rise in violence is evident at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, whose trauma unit treated 479 gunshot victims last year, a 15 percent increase over 2005. Some 18 percent of the attacks were fatal, and 16 percent of the victims will suffer permanent disabilities, like paralysis from head or spinal injuries, amputations, or long-term damage to internal organs.

Is Philly the East Coast Oakland? No I guess that would be Newark. Why don’t the Mayors and the governers and police chiefs of these cities get together to talk about problems and solutions? Oh. I guess that would be too much like right.

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It’s raining cats and dogs yall and I have a baked potato in the OVEN. I HATE the fact that the C train is jaked on the weekends. How was your weekend?

Its gonna be cold for the rest of the week.

That will make camping out the the lib that much easier. LOL.

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"Just like every rapper wants the baddest video chick on his arm, so do AGs."

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The Village Voice has an article on how young lesbians agressive’s (ag’s) embrace hip hop thug paradigm for the purposes of appearing hard.

When you go to the club and you’re an AG, your mission that entire night is to find the baddest femme in the club and make her your girl,” says another woman, who calls herself Don Vito Corleone. “Just like every rapper wants the baddest video chick on his arm, so do AGs.”

I have allways had a problem with the idea of women who embrace women but take on a male persona as the main WAY of appear tough, ’bout it and handling yours.

Rap videos have long provided men of color with milestones on their journeys to manhood. From being a successful street businessman (Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments”), to learning how to treat a woman (Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit”) and protecting their manhood (50 Cent’s “What Up Gangsta?”), guys are told how to be indestructible, sexually assertive, and in general, badasses. The misogyny and homophobia implicit in that message has long raised the hackles of critics. Oprah Winfrey and columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. made news recently for saying “enough” to the influence of rap’s rougher edges on black culture.

My problem with it is not that they do it, but that that persona is appears to be the only acceptable viable “tough, hooded up persona”.


Im sure women can use their imaginations to be tough, fierce and gully in a variety of ways. No?

“These AGs have a disrespectful mentality, and they get it from men, hoodlums, dudes that are in the ‘hood all day,” says Kysharece Young, an AG, rapper (“Ky Fresh”), and freshman at Monroe College. “They act like a bunch of little damn boys that ain’t got no sense.”

The issues that face young women face young men as well.

In 2005, filmmaker Daniel Peddle chronicled the lives of AGs in his documentary The Aggressives, following six women who went to lengths like binding their breasts to pass as men. But Peddle says that today, very young lesbians of color in New York are creating a new, insular scene that’s largely cut off from the rest of the gay and lesbian community. “A lot of it has to do with this kind of pressure to articulate and express your masculinity within the confines of the hip-hop paradigm,” he tells the Voice.

I knew from the tone of the article that the writer, Chlo? A. Hilliard, was either brown or had an urban history. Then I found this out about her. She was most recently and editor @ the Source (scroll down, after you click to get her article).

She is hella fresh.

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Ohhhh. Wu Tang Renunion Doc just came out.
I can’t go.

But somebody needs to go and tell me about it.

Dude.

This right here is worth seeing it:

Capturing onstage and off with equal energy ? at one point only the inspired freestyling of artists like Redman and MC Supernatural stand between Mr. Weisberg and an all-out riot ? ?Rock the Bells? is a fascinating glimpse of a dreamer and a music culture that has always depended on dreams.

ROCK THE BELLS

Opens today in Manhattan.

Directed by Casey Suchan and Denis Henry Hennelly; directors of photography, Jeff Bollman and Leif Johnson; music by J. Force; produced by Kurt Dalton and Henry Lowenfels; released by Seventh Art Releasing. At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 East Third Street, at Avenue A, East Village. Running time: 103 minutes.

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Think imma lay of the posting for a min. Unless.

Um. Unless something de.lic.ious happens.

Baby on the right kinda bad.

I planned on posting this last week.

But I got Imus’d.

On a more curious note. I wonder what the Jesse, Al and Oprah would
think of these women?

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