Some call it a double standard: there are some things a black person can say that whites can't. Black people: entertainers, comedians, rappers, even amongst friends use that language every day. Rutgers university, by condeming a white public figure's exercise of the first amendment, is teaching thier students that some people don't have the right to say what they think, some people don't have the right to free speech, it's ok to discriminate against some peopel and those people are white! Their's a new face of racism and it's Rutgers University. If anyone at Rutgers University had any class their professional response would have been: "who is Don Imus and why do we care what he says?" It's good that this has happened really; it has brought to the public forum an issue that is long over due for debate. Do minorities have equal rights or just the right to descriminate?

Their's a new face of racism and it's Rutgers University. Nice try at deflection but that dog won't hunt. First these women get insulted by a jerk who doesn't even know them. Then they get vilified on these boards for responding to these insults. Finally, they get hate mail and their coach gets death threats after Imus is fired and they are the racists!?

Why did the Rutgers team wait until after Imus was fired before they said they accepted his apology? If he had not been fired do you think their reaction would have been the same?

I disagree with this statement. The players of Rutgers did have every reason to be insulted. But they were not calling for Imus's head on a stick. They were not looking for him to be fired. In fact they accepted Imus's appology. The one to focus on is that loudmouthed race riot inciting clown Sharpton. If Sharpton did not stick his nose in the affair, it could have gone a lot differently for all, and a much better outcome would have prevailed. But no, Sharpton in his thirst to start s**t to boost the raitings in his own radio show, decided to take it upon himself to be their mouthpiece. And probably even coached the girls on what to say to the press to make the situation look far worse than it actually was in reality. As Sharpton has blood on his own hands from 7 dead people resulting from his race baiting, and ruining lives with no remorse when he is wrong, coaching these girls would not suprise me a bit.

No! Minorities don't have equal rights. While speaking in front of blacks at a fund raiser; a black city counsel woman in northern California made a gesture, to slant her eyes in references to Asians. The same type of furor erupted in the media. The counsel woman was forced to resign. True we all can say whatever about whomever in the private conversations. The media however is held to a higher standard. The comments made by Imus may fall within the guidelines of a "hate crime". His statement was not a generic comment. It was hateful slander of the Rutgers women basketball team. Without justification mind you.... I hope they can sue him.

there are some things a black person can say that whites can't.

I completely disagree with this.

just because you are black doesn't give you permission to call anybody a w h o re.

and if you dont' want a term to be used, dont' use it.

i think your sentence should be, there are things a black person THINKS they can say....but in reality, no, they can't.   IT's just as repugnent for them to say it, whether they are ignorant to that fact or not is really besides the point. 

How do you think it would be different had Sharpton not been involved?

Even If Sharpton wasn't involved, Imus would have to go. You don't go on the air and slander private individuals, and open your employer to legal liabilities.  In the private business world say that to a woman of any color and your unemployed.

Ahh, but they weren't "private individuals" - they had just competed in a national championship the day before. You can't have it both ways. I don't think the Rutgers women were at fault. I blame the race pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, both of who proclaim themselves to be men of God and the Bible but can't seem to find the passage that says "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

The academic world has swung too far to the left. Leftists cannot handle free speech thats why every lefists government either has it banned or puts serious restrictions on it. Leftism is not individualist like America was founded on, it is collective. This means everybody must be forced to agree to the propaganda of the state, and everybody must agree to work towards the goals of the state. Dissent is not tolerated. These leftists use minorities as a tool and teach them to not be able to handle free speech. They teach blacks to be ashamed of their past and to not tolerate any criticism.

Re: The academic world has swung too far to the left. Leftists cannot handle free speech thats why every leftists government either has it banned or puts serious restrictions on it. Leftism is not individualist like America was founded on, it is collective. This means everybody must be forced to agree to the propaganda of the state, and everybody must agree to work towards the goals of the state. Dissent is not tolerated. These leftists use minorities as a tool and teach them to not be able to handle free speech. They teach blacks to be ashamed of their past and to not tolerate any criticism.
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Well no one should be subjected to indignities. Would you agree with that/

I've been on the forefront of the issue of race relations. I have to tell you, there is no lack of racist comments.

The problem, as I see it, has also much to do with unpaid and paid people to cause rifts among people. They are the entrepreneurs of stereotypes.

Subsets among them have emotional problems.

Re: Their's a new face of racism and it's Rutgers University. Nice try at deflection but that dog won't hunt. First these women get insulted by a jerk who doesn't even know them. Then they get vilified on these boards for responding to these insults. Finally, they get hate mail and their coach gets death threats after Imus is fired and they are the racists!?
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It's not simply the face of racism. It is the new face of a backlash toward women generally. Through history women have been vilified because they have been easier targets.

It's incumbent on women to take men, and other women, to task for such behaviours. And quite often rumours are spread by ethnic groups. This is most certainly a reality.

By in large, the culture of deception and control is what we are facing worldwide. And this vilification of women is a large consequence of this kind of culture, since sex used for information and entrapment.