"Happy Feet" should be banned!

This past weekend I watched a couple of movies at home that I didn't catch while they were in the theaters.
Amidst all the flap regarding IMUS, imagine my shock and revulsion while watching the animated penguin movie "Happy Feet" and hearing the following lyrics............

"Looking back on when I was a little nappy headed boy."

My God! Quick, someone call Hollywood and have all the copies and master's of this movie burned immediately! And someone get a hold of Mr. Wonder and have him donate all the royalties he's ever received from the song "I Wish" of which the above line is the first!!!! Do it or we'll all burn!!!

Obviously I'm making a point here. Do I agree that what Imus said was wrong and repulsive? Absolutely! I think he probably should have gotten even a longer suspension, maybe a month or two without pay - and the pay should have been donated to a general Rutgers's scholarship fund or specifically to the Women's Basketball team scholarship fund.

The penalty Imus got, was nothing less than a lynching at the end of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's rope! The end to his broadcast career in NYC on that note was wrong. Especially .........

• When O.J. Simpson can murder two white people and get away with it, but Imus says 3 words and looses his career. BTW how much money has OJ paid the Goldman's?
• When Jessie Jackson can refer to NYC as "hymietown" and remain a leader of the black community and have the "balls" to ever show his face back here
• When Al Sharpton can continually get away with playing the race card - FOR DECADES - but still be held up as some sort of "avenging angel" for blacks (There are just too many examples of Sharpton racism to list only one!)
• When the white mainstream media can simply nod it's collective heads and agree as Snoop Doggy-Dog (what a great name, not too stereotypical) says, "When rappers use it, it's art - when Imus use it, it's racis!"
• When black comedians can call white's any vile thing they want - but paraphrase a Stevie Wonder song, and we're scarring the black children of the world for life!
• When Harry Bellefonte, Danny Glover, and Charles Barron can go around the country, (and to other countries as well) spewing white hatred, spewing America hatred - and not be called on it equally as hard as Imus has been ... that's just part of the GROWING DOUBLE STANDARD. Soon that double standard could cause a violent white backlash.

What so many people have lost sight of in this whole Imus fiasco is - A "REPENTANT" DON IMUS -BACK ON THE AIR AFTER HOWEVER LONG A SUSPENSION - WOULD HAVE BECOME THE SINGLE GREATEST PROPONENT AND CHAMPION OF BLACK CAUSES THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!! In this regard, Don Imus would have become blacker than Bill Clinton - blacker even than Barrack Obama!! Let's face it, Bill Clinton can only lend his name to things, he's not going to be there for the long haul. A better deal comes along it's "bye bye Harlem!" IMUS could have been the single biggest generator of contribution $$$$ into the black community via the radio waves since Moses parted the Red Sea! But not anymore.

Bottom line folks is that by getting Imus fired, those responsible did nothing to relieve the antipathy between whites and blacks in this country. The "RIFT" between the races (that everybody knows exists but never wants to talk about) isn't smaller because Imus got fired - it's much bigger! Because there are an awful lot of people (me among them) who have been long-time Imus fans....and who see this as the Lynching of Don Imus.

I may have been ashamed of Don Imus for what he said, but he didn't deserve that. And he didn't deserve all "his friends" and those who glommed onto him during the good times....deserting him in their silence like rats leaving a sinking ship when he needed them....adding their boots to the stomping he was getting!

I know Don Imus had to learn a great deal from this, he's a very smart guy. That's why I'm sure he would have done more for the black community had he remained on the air rather than off the air. But you know what, I hope most of all that Don & Dierdre Imus have really Looooonnnngggg memories, especially for all those rats & "fair weather friends" who last week spoke volumes by their silence.


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