Comments on: The Scoop: Imus’ Harlem Connection, Uptown Clinic, “White Lady” Jokes and Unsolved Hate Crimes

By: illoquentgent

illoquentgent — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:45:32 +0000

This whole Imus thing is just another example of the double standard that exists. Problem is that to address it one would have to address black/hispanic comedians who crack on whites as well. And no one’s about to put an end to that. I’m guilty of doing it too. Especially with the license to bash that Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and David Chappelle have given us to do so it seems almost impossible not use white/black stereotypes as part of our daily humor. But when you crucify a guy (an unfunny guy at that)over it it just points to the hypocrisy of it all. You can’t pick and choose who can use racial slurs or not. That’s not the way it works.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:43:22 +0000

Karith Foster: Are Blacks suppose to give her ethnic cred because she’s Black & dwells in Harlem? Her stand up video at Comedy Central
http://www.comedycentral.com/comedians/browse/f/karith_foster.jhtml
strikes with me as her having zero ethnic cred. Her material? joking on dating a Black man from Harlem? What’s funny is her routine is based on her being this “fish out of water in Harlem and in dating Black men from Harlem”. I took one look at her and her weave looks straight out of the tackiest of weave shops of Harlem.

A guy like Imus needs a “coon”, a “step-n-fetch-it” Black who plays along with all of it and does not strike back with vigor. I don’t have a problem with Imus being back on the air, I would have preferred him getting a Black woman who’s strong enough to dish it back, on the Black tip, that’s not this woman he hired, she’s doing all she can to run away from her ethnicity in her act.

By: jonolan

jonolan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:40:47 +0000

A black, female Harlem resident…
Yep. A good way of “socializing” Imus’ comeback – it’s social politics at its finest Of course her website contains equally racist – though far less vile – comments.

“So it’s not ‘talk to the hand,’ but ‘talk to the manicure.”

But I guess if you’re a minority it’s OK for you to do that sort of thing.

Harlem residents want a West Harlem medical clinic re-opened

Some people didn’t like Chris Rock’s “white lady” joke…

Obama was pretty stupid to hire Cris Rock in the first place. Rock’s racial humor doesn’t set well with a lot of people. On the other hand, this was in Harlem in front of a Black audience, so I imagine a lot of the crowd liked it.

Maybe Obama is willing to sacrifice some of his message in order to get some of Hillary’s Black votes.

Columbia’s noose and swastika hate crimes still remained unsolved.

What has probably happened is that the security cameras didn’t really cover her door. Few security camera arrays have been setup for total coverage. They normally concentrate in ingress / egress points for areas, not specific doorways within those areas.

It’s sad though…

By: narmer

narmer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:15:21 +0000

“Columbia’s noose and swastika hate crimes still remained unsolved.”

With all the Surveillance Cameras on the site and nothing was captured on tape, means one thing, IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB, DONE BY A UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEE

By: narmer

narmer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:04:19 +0000

“A black, female Harlem resident who grew up in Texas is Don Imus’ new sidekick on his new show. Hmmm”
What does her being a Jew has to do with anything?