Update. Your boy has been suspended.
The Rutgers team is going to “meet” with him.
Here are some interesting quotes that I have collected around the internet.
The players said today that,
We just hope to come to some type of understanding of what the remarks really entailed,” said team captain Essence Carson. “We [would] just like to express our great hurt ? the sadness that [this] has brought to us.”
Carson, Coach C. Vivian Stringer and other players described how Imus’ remarks and the controversy that followed overwhelmed their achievement.
“We were stripped of this moment by the degrading comments made by Mr. Imus last Wednesday,” said sophomore Heather Zurich. “We were insulted and, yes, we were angry.”
Stringer, the coach, said her team was hurt by the remarks, but that the issue reaches beyond those 10 women. She also called on the nation — and national media companies — to reject hateful speech such as Imus’.
“This is not about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, it’s about women — are women ho’s? Would you want your daughter to be called that?” she asked. “It’s not about them as black people … it’s about us as a people. … I don’t know how anybody could have heard this and not been personally offended.”
Some New York Times readers respond,
My questions are as follows.
Is he going to have to call a jewish women a cheap hot slut in order to get fired?
Or an asian woman a chinky submissive maid?
Really. What does this dude have to do to get fired?
FIRE HIS @SS.
No one else, in ANY WORK PLACE, regardless if talk was apart of their job, would be allowed to make these comments, and keep them. You would be rushed to human resources w/ the quickness, and fired.
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Fire.
Him.
Now.
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