Don Imus - suspended

[Kiwon]

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Imus gets paid $20 million to settle his suit with CBS.

America is the greatest country on earth. If Imus knew that three words ("nappy-headed hos") were so valuable he'd have said them long ago.

Easiest money he's ever made.

And how 'bout the braintrust at CBS. They are paying Katie Couric $15 million for CBS Evening News' lowest ratings ever and then breach Imus' contract by firing him and then settling for $20 million.

And I thought the yeh-hoos in America's heartland were supposed to be the dumb ones.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070814/people_nm/imus_cbs_dc_7

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is okay? And it's okay for black comedians to say wtfever they want?

The second ANY white person says anything close to that, you think it's wrong? WOW...THAT is hypocritical.

I completely understand what you are saying. However, the one side wasn't enslaved by this country for a few hundred years. Please, NEVER lose sight of that. Yes, the current generation isn't responsible for that. It wasn't but 50 years ago that this country was segragated. I'm in no way a bleeding heart liberal because I almost always vote conservative but I'll never discount the lingering effects of the blatent, unjust, disgusting way American citizens were treated for hundreds of years.

How long ago was slavery? My family wasn't even in this country back then. MOST blacks can't even trace their ancestry back to then let alone to Africa. That was then, this is now. It's time to move on (Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farakan, etc.). The point is, these people make it impossible to move on...

I think of Confucious time as long ago........150 years ain't shit.

I do tend to agree that it is time to move on. There is racism going both ways today. There always will be.

There have been slaves all over the world at that time. It is just a sad reality of how the world unfolded. It's not like our parents grandparents were involved in slavery. It is time everyone gets over this.

People today use slavery and previous prejudice as an excuse to make themselves and get themselves ahead in the world. This is absolutely living the stereotype and leads to more racism. It is time that everyone starts defining themselves and making their own fortune based on their own actions. Not on what happened hundreds of years ago.