As a white female, I am offended by Imus remark and I think the white race is missing the point. These remarks were directed to specific women who are just trying to get an education and represent a university;had they been directed towards me or my daughters, I would be outraged. I think Jesse and Al are doing a wonderful job, especially Jesse, let's not forget when he risked his life and went overseas and got the release of several white male hostages.

Thank you. it's so funny how people have jumped on Jesse's case about Duke but when he does something extraordinary, all you hear is silence.

he did something extraordinary ????????????????

extraordinary ???????? WHAT WOULD THAT BE BESIDES STARTING AN UPROAR WHERE ONE SHOULD NOT BE

AS an intelligent white female i looked at the entire team and Lo and Behold the whole team is not black, thus the comment wasn't about race. For the ignorant few whom want to say Jesse and Al are doing the right thing, I have one thing to say: Duke female wrongfully accuses three males of rape.. Apology Please?

I understand being outraged, but people say unjust things all the time...as emotionally strong and intelligent as these women have come accross I would have expected them to blow it off as the comments of an idiot. Freedom of speech is a very important right. Imus can say what he wants - we have the right not to listen and think of him as the idiot he has shown himself to be, but he should be able to speak his mind. This issue has been blown out of porportion.

Blown out of proportion. Absolutely. They should have blown it off. Sharpton and Jackson wouldn't let that happen though..unfortunately.

" I think the white race is missing the point. " The point being that goofs in casual cconveration can gain national headlines and waste everyone's time for days on end? Freedom of Speech is not freedom to hear only what you want to hear.

Your screen name could be construed as offensive, but I'm not offended by it, nor by what Imus said. In America, we shouldn't be afraid we'll lose our job if we slip-up and say something inappropriate. Sharpton and Jackson are piranhas and when they smell blood, they're alll over it. There is no love in them.

I've seen it. Crack houses with white ho's, where the white women and teens have to do tricks and run down hallways to give the money to the puff daddys who give them more 40-second high crack to turn another trick and it goes on all night from 7 PM - 7 AM, and why has no network except ABC ever brought this out. it's been going on big-time for 20 years, and yet NBC/CBS are even worse cracksters. Imus was calling them women tough and using their own lingo, spammed and overflowing our culture more than the levies in N'Orleans. We don't have a white culture no mo, and rappers are stealing our teens too. This is a cultural war now.

I've seen it. Crack houses with white ho's, where the white women and teens have to do tricks and run down hallways to give the money to the puff daddys who give them more 40-second high crack to turn another trick and it goes on all night from 7 PM - 7 AM, and why has no network except ABC ever brought this out. it's been going on big-time for 20 years, and yet NBC/CBS are even worse cracksters. Imus was calling them women tough and using their own lingo, spammed and overflowing our culture more than the flooding over levy breaks in N'Orleans. We don't have a white culture no mo, and rappers are stealing our teens too. This is a cultural war now. ^^^^^^^^^^ It started from one website, Media Matters, last Wednesday, April 5th, 2 days before the blacko's started an uproar. What happened is leading to an all-out outcry about the degradation and sexism of women by some of the rap hiphoppers, aired every day. http://users1.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=evo-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117641076468168180.html%3Fmod%3Dhpp_us_pageone Imus has once again started and spark plugged a major national and cultural investigation and change in how women and races are put down and exploited in our media and culture, airing every day and night. It's time to expose and root it out, and see it for what it is. That's the seing eye of free speech and manipulation of our rights to some of some. Nobody gets an easy pass when it comes to sexual and ethnic exploitation and degradation, as erotic as that can seem and seen, remotely on any screen.

You missed the point babe, he was saying that most women basketball players are lesbians. Why do wear huge tattoos, play a man's game and get a kick out of it. That's what Imus was pointing to. So what if they were black aren't most basketball players former cotton pickers.

What hole in the ground do you place your head each night? You are very naive. Jackson and Sharpton are opportunist for this type of thing...and only this type of thing. When else do you see them on TV...and what do they do with their lives lately.

Your statement in of of itself is proof positive you are neither white, "buxome' or most likely a female.

I believe his comments were "nappy headed". How many white females do you know as nappy headed? How many females have ever apolized for wrongfully accusing someone of rape? White or black. 

Imus cannot say what he wants.   His freedom of speech ended, when he attacked the character of the Rutgers team.   There are laws aganist slander.   There are many things he could have said, but he crossed the line with the slang for wh###.

Imus can say what he wants.  The whole show was known all over the country.  People like you are too sensitive to understand.  You have a choice-you can avoid Imus completely and be happy, instead of having him fired from a good-paying job.  Instead, people like you force your morals on the rest of us who get the jokes.

We as a country are getting too sensitive for our own good.  This will come back to haunt us.

I totally agree and I'm an African-American female.  Imus is another one of MANY who's said thing that aren't "nice" or whatever.  It's not as serious as the entire country is making it out to be because contrary to popular belief, it happens all the time.  Freedom of speech is a right, not a privilege.  I agree, he should have had some discretion not to say that on air because of the potential uproar.  But at the end of the day, that's his opinion and he's entitled to have it.  Albert Einstein said it best, "My opinions and beliefs don't matter as much as my right to have them.  I think on this we can agree."