Although Don Imus made those comments, there is nothing in the constitution that states we cant do that. I personally do not support comments like that, being a woman myself, but he has a right to say what he wants. He should not have lost his job, I think mostly the comany thought it would put a stain on their good record. But they have no legal reason to fire Don Imus.

....He should not have lost his job...But they have no legal reason to fire Don Imus... Here is the point that I believe you are missing: The comments Don Imus made were not made inside his home, in someone's backyeard at a barbeque, private card party, etc. Had he made the comments in a private venue, you may have a point. But that is not what occured. Those comments were made in the WORKPLACE. That makes it a WORKPLACE issue. Human Resources/legal departments have a RESPONSIBILITY to address such issues offering advice based on LAW, not on feelings. Employees within MSNBC complained. For MSNBC to have ignored the situation would make them complicit in maintaing a hostile workplace. Once they became AWARE of the issue, the onus was placed upon MSNBC to take appropriate actions consistent with their policies and the LAW, which may include sanctions up to and including TERMINATION.

I personally think his comments were purely offensive and I don't care that much that he was fired for them.

He called a bunch of upstanding hard working college women ####.  Yeah, I can see someone getting fired for that.

What I think is just pure silliness is the outrage by the black community that this is some holier unheard of thing

 

read this:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/terrymoran/

that is what I'm talking about!

"And many Americans ask: How is it that so many parents are supposed to tolerate the bombardment of our daughters with the most degrading imagery and language? Because it's promulgated by black artists? Huh? A white man says stuff like that, and he must be fired--but a black man can degrade women and himself, and it's "art"? Where's the real racism there? Which man is being treated as beneath our shared values and standards? "

 

Who stopped Don Imus from speaking?

Did some one sew his mouth shut.

Please do not confuse free speech with free commerce.  The two are not the same.

Also Free Speech means that you cannot be incarceraed for what you say not that everyone must listen and enjoy what you say.

Did you ever stop to consider that this thing has been blown way out of proportion? By one simple comment, Don Imus lost his job that so many people really benefited from and enjoyed. Maybe it wasn't right for him to express such blatant views on the radio but he apologized now get over it. I'm sure the girls basketball team isn't minding the publicity anyway. Free speech is free to anyone and I think this issue is ridiculous and should be seriously considered before all offended people start suing and causing havoc for companies and possibly individuals.

Why are we still talking about race issues in the 21st Century?  Because it was embedded into our hard drives for over 200 year going on 400  and we have not upgraded our thinking.  We are divided on things that we can't change.  There is one race -- the human race -- and the first race of humans began in Africa -- which means brothers and sisters that we are just that -- evolved from the same race.  Genocide in Africa is just a means to hide the destruction that was done there and it will happen here one day -- if we don't stop wasting our time hating each other and start focusing on what our leaders are doing to us -- we have a choice -- but we'd rather call each other degrading names and believe that we are protecting our "groups" through self preservation -- If a space ship landed tomorrow with a load of super intelligent beings that look like Squids -- and they wanted to kill humans -- would we support one another then?  We could be so much more advanced if we stopped hanging back in the past.

Why are we still talking about race issues in the 21st Century?  Because it was embedded into our hard drives for over 200 year going on 400  and we have not upgraded our thinking.  We are divided on things that we can't change.  There is one race -- the human race -- and the first race of humans began in Africa -- which means brothers and sisters that we are just that -- evolved from the same race.  Genocide in Africa is just a means to hide the destruction that was done there and it will happen here one day -- if we don't stop wasting our time hating each other and start focusing on what our leaders are doing to us -- we have a choice -- but we'd rather call each other degrading names and believe that we are protecting our "groups" through self preservation -- If a space ship landed tomorrow with a load of super intelligent beings that look like Squids -- and they wanted to kill humans -- would we support one another then?  We could be so much more advanced if we stopped hanging back in the past.

 

^^^^^^^^^^

Awesome and very true post!

 

Imus was actually complimenting the women's team, as tough players, which they were in the NCAA Championship game.

 

The race card has become the Bower in this euchre game.