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.
