"Don Imus has been fired"!!! For those of you who don't know who I'm talking about. For the past couple of weeks, theres been a raging inferno in the US after Imus called Rutgers female basketball team, a "bunch of nappy hos"....and unless the definition of "hos" has changed, this isn't a term to be used on air when about 10 million listeners are on...."probably" because the team is made up of mostly BLACk girls..its was unpardonable. Jesse Jackson and Al sharption, two prominent african americans have called for his head all week...and finally today, CBS succombed and gave him the boot!! Good riddance to bad comments. Can you imagine the guy telling the world that he's a "good person" who did a "bad thing"...since when did we begin to call ourselves good because we help out at volunteer camps with black kids(he says he does)....but theres still no justification for calling these women these terrible names on air...It was definitely unacceptable. And to think that he apologized immediately...which seems to be the norm now when people make racist comments and come under fire..they retract their comments and ask for pardon. My opinion is that something has to be done...it shouldn't be all apologies each time..and I'm glad with the outcome. Just because the girls were black and had tatoos doesn't make them "nappy hos", these girls had just lost the finals of the womens basketball championship in the US....and you'd rather not praise them, but insult them.
I hope other broadcasters learn from this, and carefully watch the comments they make on live events. With the perceived difficulties experienced by these enterprising young black womek, who should be praised at all levels...this sort of attitude cannot be condoned anymore. My anger has finally been assuaged, and I hope this serves as a lesson to all.
On a different note, Nigeria is set for elections and the governement has declared two days of public holidays. For those of you not familiar with the tussle between the president and his vice who is contesting to replace the president against the presidents wish...this is to prevent the supreme court from ruling on the VP's suit....which would determine if he can contest after his indictment by a corruption panel set up by the government.....that concluded its findings in approx. 5 days. Things like this makes one wish that the supreme court would give an accelerated hearing on monday, and give a verdict for this guy to contest...though I'm not sure if I want him to win, since that would mean more trouble....but atleast let him contest. Its a free society and anyone can contest. I'm looking forward to monday with high expectations.
Alright peeps, got work to do...peace out!!!Hope you enjoyed reading..
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