Feigned politeness and denial

The title comes from a post at G-itch spot. As I stroll through the blogosphere to eavesdrop on conversations. ConverStations with conversations about injuries and triumphs of African-American communities, black communities. Trying to get a handle on the different takes on Imus comments. I posted a few.

Temple 3 stated its all about Jackson and Sharpton. I relax.

I am not a big fan of Jackson, one of among many warriors in the battle for civil rights. But, who am I to complain? So Temple 3 has a point. Why sit on the porch and keep a waving my fan waiting for Jackson or Sharpton to cool things down. The two are busy mixing it up and being blamed for so much other mess. No wonder folks are citing the high murder rate from each others hometown, waiting. Jesse ain't coming to stop the killings. Sad as the poem on Electronic Village.


Asabagne lays out a plan. Something that he shared with the freeslave long before Imus low blow hit the blogosphere. Those who are committed are committed. You know them. They are fearless and humble. What are their names? When we see them coming, we shake their hands, and tell them we will call them on Monday. But their names, we call them nobodies. They don't have the clout of Jesse or Al.

The second book of Asabagne suggest, more Gideons are needed. Jesse, nope,Sharpton no way, as a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Nelson Mandela or Gideon. They may have filled a void, Jackson and Sharpton, while we waited for someone else to come alone to solve our problems. But..

Bronze Trinity is in on a plan. Bronze Trinity wrote a petition to commit to making a change in patterns of behaviors. To push the button STOP on those who wish to play word games in debasing community. More than likely she will be very busy.

But she is in, her mind is working, young, and she will watch out for the miner's canary. Mirror of America requires us to look at us. We have such a person in our hometown. She had collected evidence upon evidence on the negative language in the music coming from our radio and its impact on our children. But few listens. Including a store stocking the shelves with something called "pimp juice." But not many are rushing to hear her message or funding her cause, because its just music. Well how long before our children starting drinking this and call it just soda pop.

Action must be taken. That is what the bloggers reinforced. Do something, write letters, email, call, walk let your voices be heard not muted. Lets' not whisper to one another, but go tell them . And we all know who them is, or do we?

That's what happen, was it not? It was all those in the know folks on the blogs , adding their ingredients into the recipe, of this is how much I know, and this is what I would do. Folks willing to share knowledge and information on how to get it done. That's what happened with Shaquanda Cotton, and what bout Katrina three years. We used the cheapest form of media outreach. We used the internet, we used cable radio, cable television, we used the tools that are public accessible to get the word out. Where those who work for MSM believe we are not news worthy.

We know Imus was wrong, and so many others before and after him will be wrong. The question was, and is what shall we do? and the answer or action was and is get rid of Imus. But Imus did not have clue that he could be brought down simply for calling those he targeted and believed it was okay to call nappy headed hos.

Yes that's what Black in Business says, Imus targeted Rutgers Women Basketball Stars. Heck, Imus probably thought, the girls wouldn't be offended, they hear it all the time. so that made it okay. But, just in case, the name calling did offend, he would sit down with them later, and maybe invite them all to his ranch. Who would care?

We cared, not corporate America, but we cared. Where is that lawsuit? It's a crime.

Go read temple 3.

Coach C.Vivian Stringer, it ain't about you

New Jersey Rutger Women Basketball Coach C. Vivian Stringer got it wrong. It is about the Rutgers women's basketball team members.

It is more than the Rutgers women's basketball team. It is all women's athletes. It is all women," said Stringer, the third-winningest women's basketball coach of all time who has taken three teams to the Final Four.

Don Imus and gang, specifically pointed out Rutgers' women basketball players. Coach, no softpeddaling for Imus, please.

And may I throw in this point, Coach Stringer is getting paid as the third most winning women's basket coach. But the team members are not getting paid. The team members success brings in revenue for the university and serves as a recruitment tool for the university. But more importantly, the coach nor the university reputation was attacked.


The sistas are not getting paid for their skills or talents, you and the university are getting paid. The sistas reputation were and still is being attacked. So let's not play this game of let's quiet the masses with fake press conferences.




Coach and University lets get some legal representation for those young women to protect their interest. I bet if a student was raped on campus, the university would not be so willing to make this student sit in the room with the rapist after the attack. But everyone thinks its okay for these women to meet with Imus.

Rutgers' athletic director, Robert E. Mulcahy III, thought a meeting with Imus would offer the team's players a chance to listen to him and hear what he has to say. Several players said they wanted to ask the host why he would make such thoughtless statements.

Or seems to be the ideal solution for the women. Wrong, but these were not his daughters.

"It kind of scars us. We grew up in a world where racism exists, and there's nothing we can do to change that," said Matee Ajavon, a junior guard. "I think that this has scarred me for life."

, according to a Forbes article.

The essence of these women characters were assassinated without provocation. These women had no defense against such attacks. Attacks sanctioned by the media and its advertisers. These sistas need to speak out about the harm and damage from these remarks and everyone else needs to listen.

That's going to be hard, because who listens when a sister speaks?

"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."

It is reported that some advertisement dollars are being pulled from Don Imus show. There should be more. There is a cost to the harm done by Imus and the sistas should be paid. This will stop protected speech shock jocks and others with a microphone from spouting off libelous comments when on the airwaves libelous comments that others would not dare to speak in mixed company.

Where's the lawsuit?

H/T to African American (Black) Opinion


Update: April 11 Note here C. Vivian Stringer is one of four African-American female coaches.

Update: April 11 MSNBC cut Don Imus Simulcast. Bruce Gordon former NAACP spoke out about the Imus racialist rant.

Abigail Adams told John, Remember the ladies

Abigail Adam was warning one of the founding father of America, John Adams not to place foreign men rights before mothers of the founding fathers' children. Fearing that their daughter should be protected first and that protection should come from and be guarantee by the future sons of patriots.

Adrianna Huffington from Huffington Post reminds us just who the ladies are that Abigail Adams was talking about:

We're kicking off this collaboration with a new campaign celebrating the special relationship between Mothers and Daughters -- and not just biological mothers and daughters, but the special bond between women of different ages, including mentors, and aunts, and grandmothers, and godmothers, and older friends.

This is the take our daughters to work, now rising to a level of a political campaign.

The motivation behind this campaign is our belief that there is no better gift we can give our daughters to help inoculate them from all the negative and soul-sapping messages our culture is bombarding them with than giving them something to care about besides themselves.

Imbuing our daughters with a sense of social responsibility is important not just for the obvious reason that caring for others is a good thing, but because making a difference in the world -- however tiny -- is the antidote to the pervasive narcissism of our consumption-crazed culture. Children brought up to feel that their lives have a larger purpose are more likely to keep their own troubles in perspective and less likely to fall into drugs or other self-destructive behaviors.

America is plagued with disconnections -- blacks from whites, rich from poor, and, perhaps most troubling, parents from children. One of the greatest ways to bridge these divides is by teaching children from an early age the importance of making service an integral part of their lives. It helps them to move from the fear of not being popular to the satisfaction of being useful.

The take our daughter to work political "fearless" campaign will go beyond the day at work. It will extend all the way until Mothers Day. And you were worried about Don Imus.

Bernard McGuirk

Enough of Don Imus, where is Bernard McGuirk in this nappy-headed mess? This not a joking matter, a pattern of intent has been long established.

Brothers are gonna have to learn how to turn off the television. In the blogosphere, brothas can get all bend out of shape on bloggers dissing Senator Hillary. They can recognize misogyny in the whitosphere, but not in our own community? If our brothas don't mind calling each other dog, no surprise there is not more outrage when sistas are called nappy-headed hoes. Turn the radio off too, let's have a moment of silence for our Rutgers women.

Don Imus- I help nappy headed children

Don Imus was to appear on the Al Sharpton radio program.

By DEEPTI HAJELA, of the Associated Press writes:

He pointed to his involvement with the Imus Ranch, a working cattle ranch for children with cancer and blood disorders in New Mexico. Ten percent of the children who come to the ranch are black, he said.

"I'm not a white man who doesn't know any African-Americans," he said.

Imus said he hoped to meet the Rutgers players and their parents and coaches, and that he was grateful for the appearance on Sharpton's nationally syndicated show.

And what a spokesperson have to say about all of this:

Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio _ Imus' employer and the owner of his New York radio home, WFAN-AM _ said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."

I wonder when was the last time, Imus called her a ho?



Some a whole lot like a Bil-liary statement to me. I refused to say it was a huge expense mistake. I've not been able to get onto Imus show blog its down for maintenance. You think !!!

Here we go again, get to writing. all the information you need is from Zuky.