The article was taking the extreme side; that all minorities problems are caused by minorites is the other extreme to the side you were taking:

At any rate, I still haven't received reparations from either whities for what they did to my Native American peeps, or from Bruce Willis for fucking too many women and being a general horndog. :rolleyes:

Haven't you heard? It is okay for one minority to insult another minority!!

Either extreme side is wrong. No matter how much everyone helps the inner city nothing will happen unless everyone in there works to help themselves too.

Reparations are tough because the people that screwed over the Native Americans are long dead. Before jumping to conclussions, what do you think you should happen?

And the people who held African-americans in slavery must be MUCH older than I am.

That's my point. I don't expect anything to happen. And I don't demand apologies and firings every time I hear the racist words Injun, squaw, scalpers, redskins, or savages.

Jumping to conclusions? Not sure I catch you; I think you've used the word "conclusion" out of context (better apologize now.) But here is a pic of Humbug jumping to the Island of Conclusions just for you:

But Rosie isn't a minority, she is white.

and gay.

But what does that have to do with racism?

It has to do with being a minority

Sometimes I think Rosie just sticks her nose into these things (recall her recent feud with the Donald) just for the free publicity.

I don't have anything against Rosie but it seems like she always shows up when there's some extra cameras around.

I like this article. I never could stand Sharpton or Jackson.

http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/ti...11111509990001

And he'll have to swim back; we know that.

Last night on the Nightly News they spoke with Maya Angelou (who I have had the honor to see in person twice.) She spoke about what Imus said being a sad thing to say, but went on to berate rappers, et al, for degrading women. I can't speak as eloquently, but I was pleased that she didn't go the Sharpton route, but didn't back away from the issue either. That woman is a class act.

I have a lot of respect for Maya Angelou, and reading her autobiographies did help me see a difference between racist assumptions made by blacks against whites and those made by whites against blacks.

I'm not saying it applies to anyone of any age, but certainly the world she grew up in and what she had to face, I'm surprised her views have mellowed to the extent they have.

She's a good argument for tolerance and integration as a way of changing prejudices.

Getting back to Don Imus, he has always been a jerk. On the other hand I thought his comment was about actions and self determined appearance. I contrasted the Rutger's five that were mostly in the game with three black commentators on Meet the Press yesterday. These three (2 men and a woman) were well groomed in professional buisness dress. The future doctors and lawyers on the Rutgers team were some of the roughest and unsportsmanlike players since the infamous Minnesota team. They were tatooed and scruffy looking and I am sure it was an intentional "look" similar to the "gangsta" look of the hardest hardcore rappers. They were not trying to look like future doctors and lawyers (and I'll take your bets that not one of the starting five ever becomes a doctor or lawyer). In short, they looked like a bunch of n_____, h_____, h__. I won't deny the racist overtones of the comment, but it was a fairly accurate discription, in the Black venaculare, of what one saw, and the tough image that THEY intended to project.

If you and an African American were standing next to each other, what can I call you that would differentiate the two of you?