Originally Posted by: schmangePersonally, I think they're just gonna crawl back into their hole and wait for 'whitey' to make another stupid mistake again.

I think you're right on point here Schmange. This is something that should have never exploded into the level it did. It was a stupid thing for Imus to have said but he said it. The Rutgers team met with him and accepted his apology. CBS should have suspended Imus IF he had violated their stated on-air policies. If not, then reprimand him and let it go.

But, and here's the problem, much like good ol' conspiracy theories, if you look hard enough into something, you can find a conspiracy in everything. In this case, those willing to look hard enough, were able to turn this from a stupid attempt at being funny and outrageous into something hateful and racist.

It's a dangerous thing to move from advocate to conspirator. I have to wonder what MLK would have thought about this incident. Not only do you have those who want to turn this into something it's not, but you have to add a healthy dose of white guilt in there too and you end up with the media circus that it eventually became.

I hate to see this sort of thing because it is far more devisive than it is inclusive.

Have you ever wondered if maybe the reason that we are in such a strange time now is because these are the last throes of the group of folks who lived through the Civil Rights and Anti-Establishment movements? I would like to think that things will be different a few generations from now.

Of course, I'll be long gone by then so I guess I'll never know.... :rolleyes: