Racism or double standard? 37 Articles

by Joe Dimeck

Anyone in possession of working eyes and ears has certainly been exposed to the recent incident involving radio personality, Don Imus. His comments in regards to the women's Rutger's basketball team led to a week long stri...read more

by Pat -Cricket- Jones

OK, maybe I am not going to fit the norm on the Don Imus subject. I am black. Let's get that out of the way to begin with. I am also a male. My sense of humor spans a wide range. I think that part of the problem with ...read more

by Ted Sherman

After 40 years as a fixture on American radio, Don Imus has been fired by the Big Eye network. Why was he singled out from all the other shock jocks who still fill the airways with every kind of locker room sexual and raci...read more

by Serena Edwards

Oh, no. Here we go. Again. One man says a stupid and ugly thing, and the nation erupts into accusations and remonstrations. I'm not an apologist for Don Imus. Actually, he doesn't need me as an apologist. He's apologizing ...read more

by Elizabeth K Cole

Since this site is read by people all over the world, I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Don Imas and the recent injustice to his career. He is a long time radio show host with his own show called "Imas in the...read more

by Chandra Villarreal

I want to find a spot where I can be heard by everyone to say this, so I'll start here. By now everyone in America has heard about the racist and sexiest remarks made by Don Imus last week. Next week will start the ...read more

by Judy Carley

Last November newspapers all over the world were reporting racial slurs made by Seinfeld's Michael Richards. Before that it was Mel Gibson, and now it's Imus. Racism seemed to be dying by the 80's, and I myself was gl...read more

by Laura M. Fagan

For weeks and weeks Rosie O'Donnell got to say whatever she wanted against The United States, the War in Iraq, 9/11, the British Hostage Crisis, etc and no one thought anything about talking back much less stopping her, un...read more

by Reno Wolfe

There is definitely a double standard when it comes to Whites and Blacks in America. Equal Rights just doesn't exist. Blacks demand "Special Rights" and "Special Privileges", not equality. For example, many ,if not most, s...read more

by George Sistrunk

The problem with the vast majority is that few, if any, people on earth really understand what freedom means. Far too many have this infantile notion and opinion that freedom means doing or saying anything one pleases. T...read more

by Lou Rountree

Racism was almost extinct in the U.S. about ten years ago. Football, baseball, the Armed Forces of the United States and hard working people working together and surviving together began to regard their off color particip...read more

by Eugene Jacquescoley DO PhD

As an African American observing our current climate, destructive images, language and sounds have excacerbated a lifecycle of hatred, rudeness, and social discourse in all of our daily lives. This meticulous "infection" (...read more

by Jordan St. Claire

Yes, Don Imus said racial slurs towards the Rutgers Womens Basketball team. He was trying to be funny if you watched his clip. Unlike Mel Gibson's drunken "f- Jews" comment, I don't think Imus was trying to be a racist or ...read more

by C. Penlington

I hope everyone recognizes that this is a case of 'old school white guy' - I'm not interested in name-calling, and I guess that is something along the lines of labeling - but holy cow - I sighed a sigh of frustration when ...read more

by Completely Oblivious

Our society is full of double standards, and this is a bright, shining example of that fact! If a black person would have made the same comment this would never had picked up so much publicity, nor caused such an uproar. ...read more

by Jasmine Soto

What has this world come to when we have double standards for one group of people and another group is ignored. I am in the middle of the road by being Hispanic. The whole incident with Don Imus had me so frustrated becaus...read more

by Sat E

The last dust started to settle as apologies were issued to the Rutger's women basketball team yesterday. Don Imus, along with his wife, privately attended a meeting with C. Vivian Stringer, head coach of the young women,...read more

by Nicole Thrasher

Is this sensible enough to you?... So, Imus ended up getting fired. I'm not really saying its right or wrong, because 1. Who am I to really judge/decide. 2. Who the heck really cares THAT much? BUT. The thing ...read more

by Nancy Morgan

George Orwell Is Laughing Last month the nations' attention was riveted on the illegitimate daughter of a deceased stripper. After months of ceaseless speculation, we finally found out which of Anna Nicole's former love...read more

by Ross Valigura

To the people who were offended by Imus' remarks I must say "Welcome to America". This is the land of free speech and I would not trade it for anything in the rest of the world. You may lose your job for what you say, b...read more