Rutgers B-Bawlers Want You To Feel Their Pain

Oh give me a freaking break. Imus was boorish and stupid, that's his shtick. But this is just pathetic: And talk about being coached.

The Rutgers women's basketball coach and several of her players expressed pain and outrage at the racially charged comments Don Imus made about them, saying he overshadowed their success with remarks that degraded women across the globe.

"These young ladies before you are valedictorians, future doctors, musical prodigies, and yes, even Girl Scouts," said Stringer. "These young ladies are the best this nation has to offer and we are so very fortunate to have them here at Rutgers University."

One of her players, Heather Zurich, said her pride at going so far in the tournament was undercut by the radio host's on-air insults.

"We were stripped of this moment by a degrading comment by Mr. Imus," she said.

Clue up, ladies - if the best this nation has to offer simply hands over any sense of pride or accomplishment to a second rate, mostly used up shock jock like Imus, our best simply isn't good enough.

No one can take your scholastic or athletic accomplishments away from you, unless you empower them to do so. And empowering an idiot who makes millions of dollars from offending people is a stupid move. Maybe if you weren't so practiced at being victims, you might actually have won the championship. How about thinking on that for a spell?

Junior Essence Carson, who said she felt "great hurt, anger and disgust" over the remarks, explained that she wanted to meet with Imus to understand why he said what he said.

"We just hope to come to some understanding of what the remarks really entailed," said Carson.

Oh, Essence ... how splendid. If only we could all name a child after a perfume. And now Essence wants to understand Imus ... no doubt one day she'll be a great liberal politician who wants to understand terrorists, too. What the remarks really "entailed." It wasn't exactly a Kafka novel, Essence buck up - throw away lines from shock jocks usually entail nothing of value at all, stop looking for meaning when it isn't really there.

"Somehow, some way, the door has been left open to attack the leaders of tomorrow," she said.

:::sniffle::: It's all about the children ... uh, or maybe the leaders of tomorrow, you see. What a load of crap, why don't they admit that, just like Imus, this is becoming all about the me in them. And it would be a much smarter world if so many useful idiots wouldn't walk around wearing their me on their sleeve.

This team came into this looking like winners and almost champs, thanks to the usual nonsense dribbling out of the leftist academy, they now look more like the tournament losers that they are.

Comments

[Hard Right]

Way to play up the victim angle ladies. Way to represent "strong" women everywhere. Pathetic.

[Victor]

Meanwhile, in real news:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8ODSCR80&show_article=1

I wonder what those evil libruls could want with good ole Alberto???

[Phoenix]

Yeah. Stupid me thinking Rutgers had handled this well by shrugging it off as 'funny'.

Doesn't anyone 'rise above it' anymore? What if the girls had banded together with their coach and said, "We understand Mr. Imus is a shock jock and this is what he does. We take no offense because we know he meant no offense."

Jaysus. If they'd done that, people would fall over at the show of grace. Maybe they'd go down in history as starting the movement to end this victim crap.

[Victor]

This is almost as bad as holding up a sign that says "Hannity Sucks Ass". That was the worst! Those damn libruls!

[Lilo]

-"We just hope to come to some understanding of what the remarks really entailed," said Carson."-

Should have added "And we believe that a few million dollars from him will aid in our "understanding".

BTW, if these are really the leaders of tomorrow- I want a refund. I have a 9 year old that could have handled this better, without all the whining and hurt feelings.

[bloodrage bob]

"it HURT, know what i'm sayin'? it hurt BAAAYITT. i needs some hundered-dolla bills to rub on it, take tha pain away."

[nova]

I think cable tv added to this trend of "Let's call a newsconference". Cable has to fill up 24 hours a day. So endless "news" conferences about little or nothing are what is shown on MSNBC CNN AND FOX. If there is no real news they have to make some news. And endless talking heads. I think this is being blown way out of proportion just like the size of those female basektball players from Rutgers. Nobody can tell a joke anypmore and nobody can understand a joke anymore it appears.

[Hard Right]

It seems they are fishing for money or a little payoff of some kind.

Gone are the days they would simply have called him an idiot and gone about their business. Pathetic.

[toolboxnj]

As a Rutgers alumnus I can disgusted by the way the university has handled the situation. They are starving for cold cash from individuals like myself to support the bloated budget that goes on there. Get a clue, McCormick. Quit abusing these girls for your political gain.

[nappyheadedwhore]

Now ya'lls knows I is got to have my monies' if I is goin' to feel better, and if I is gone' be de leader of tommorow. You's white motha' fuckas better pays up, cuz jes' caz we hears all dis shit in dem' rap songs don't mean shit, cuz wes undastands dat de brothas is just bitchin.

[nova]

This whole sorry affair could be a publicity stunt for Imus's telethon later this week. And to raise MSNBC and NBC ratings.

[darcy_lane]

They were only "stripped" because they and others decided to make a big deal of it. Imus says a lot of boorish crap. If you don't like it, ignore him.

I have heard plenty of black rappers describe women as "hos". Its almost become a generic term for women, and you don't hear any bitching about that. And the nappy headed thing, they might not like it, but its accurate. Some are nappy headed. Now describing the texture and style of someone's hairdo is racially offensive? Its not like he called them pickaninnies.

[lonetown]

Someone should tell them to "come down from your cross, we can use the wood!"

[Althor]

Update On The Imus Catastrophe Endangering The Survival of Humanity And The Future Of Our Planet!

Topics: Follies of the Mainstream Media. From Hyscience:

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2007/04/update_on_the_i.php

Move over "Global Warming"! The media has a new far more ominous and devastating development to follow!

Gaging by all the uproar and the coverage on the news networks, you'd think that we must now be at Defcon-2; there is turmoil and angry mobs on every Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard across the nation, the President has had to call in on the already strained National Guard to calm the black rioters looting big screen TVs and other fancy electronics, in protest of course, from ransacked Best Buy and Circuit City stores, and setting fire to cars (after meticulously stripping them of anything of value), in LA, Detroit, Atlanta, and other heavily black populated cities; the restraining bars of "white frosting" Martial Law had to be reinstated as a preventive measure in Katrina ravaged New Orleans, "The Chocolate City"; the UN Security Council has been called into a Special Session to draft a resolution condemning the incident; and the International Tribunal in the Hague avidly works as I write this, to press charges in the matter and charge the nefarious perpetrator with a "Crime Against Humanity"!

And what is all the fuss about? What ominous event seems apparently on the verge of threatening the very future of humanity and the survival of the species -judging by the way the news outlets are covering it?!?! What is this catastrophic event shaking humanity?!?!

Why non other than shock-jock Don Imus' offensive comments on a simulcast last Wednesday referring to the, mostly black, women of the Rutgers basketball team in a game he was covering, as "rough...tattooed...nappy haired hos"! Imagine that!

Ok, until now I have taken all the "Much Ado About Nothing" concerning Imus' "nappy haired hos" remark as what it is, and should be, nothing but the off-the-wall remarks of an asinine shock-jock, whom I never listen to or like for that matter, and whose trademark as such is to offend anybody and everybody given half a chance - though I must admit he should have chosen his words more wisely when trying to convey that he thought the female Rutgers basketball players were tough...and having a bad hair day!

I also know that in today's world a "spine" is very rare to come by, as shown by the actions of, from the 15 captured British sailors and Tony Blair all mushy and weak at the knees with that barbarous madman Ahmadinejad, to the now "going out with a whimper" President Bush, to the sell-out turn-coat Republican politicians that lost Congress, to the yellow streaked cut-and-run defeatist Democrats that have succeeded them!

But after having had to seat today, while constantly switching channels trying to avoid it, through hour after endless hour of nothing but Imus hooplah, and what seems like an eternity of Imus "spineless apologia" on his part, being trumpeted repeatedly on all the news channels as if it was a world shattering event, and the very fate of humanity hanged on it, I have just had enough of it!

This while amazingly enough Rosie O'Donnell at the same time sat spewing her daily dose of hate-America venom at "Rosie's View" with no one seemingly objecting in the least, nor outraged with her as much, or even remotely in a manner, resembling all the paranoia that is being made of imus' stupidly immature and moronic remarks!

And it is utterly disgusting! All you see, as you switch from one news channel to another, is a snivelling and fawning Imus, telling the world for the umpteenth time, in just the last few hours, how pathetically sorry he is for his "nappy haired hos" comment, flagellating himself with his endless whine of "mea culpa" in the face of the ire and contempt of obscure (no pun intended), recalcitrant, black guests on the newscasts, that no one has ever heard-of before this incident happened, who virtually spit his apology back in his face howling for blood, while a cowered Imus keeps grovelling at the feet of welfare pimp Al Sharpton, like some insect grubbing Renfield pleading "Master...Master...Mercy Master!" writhing at his feet, struck by the stare of the welfare sucking vampire. Personally, I find such abject servility more offensive than his uncouth original comments! After all, it is Reverend Sharpton who has so inflamed this whole absurd situation with his race-baiting, and all his false, puffed-up, self-righteous, outrage, who is trying to milk this racial cow for all the "chocolate milk" he can get out of it, and simply won't let it go, no matter how much more Renfield...err, Imus grovels at his feet!

I say, enough is enough! And I further agree that NBC should fire Imus and get this over and done with! But not for his stupid comments about the Rutgers team, as much as because it is truly revolting and sickening seeing all the spineless grovelling and the snivelling on Imus' part! It is time to stop playing into the racial-card games of Reverend Sharpton and the other welfare pimps making a Maelstrom "world event" out of Imus' muddy puddle.

He made the offensive comments and should face the consequences. It was well of him to apologize for his improper and offensive remarks. If NBC doesn't fire him but just suspends him for two weeks, that's fine. If NBC does fire him, that's fine as well. But stop the stupid race-baiting sensationalist circus! It's not like Don Imus will be left penniless on the street and have to go apply for Reverend Sharpton's welfare along with his "nappy haired hos" anyway. But what is truly disgusting and totally unbearable is seeing this arse Imus grovelling like a spineless amoeba 24 /7 on all the news channels!

Imus should have apologized and he did. And if then those he apologized to, for whatever reasons, or as in Sharpton's case for personal gain and or hidden "agendas," they did not, or would not, accept his apology, then the hell with them! End of story! Next...

I'd like to see who has Rosie ever apologized to, even when she recently offended the memory of the victims of 9/11 on The View, and if Reverend Sharpton is as keen to have her fired, as he is with Imus! Talk about racism, bias, and bigotry!

On the lighter side of the issue, a savvy black female entrepreneur commented on a blog by the name of "Rantings of a Creole Princess" that if the ladies of the basketball team had been using the "Healthy Black Hair Care 2007" regimen, the whole unfortunate incident could have easily been averted. My hat tip to her! At last someone puts this whole disgusting racial-wannabe melodrama in perspective!

Althor

[Rich]

Who the fuck listens Imus and believes him. Only one thing comes out of an asshole, shit (and sometimes a fart and/or cum). Now the Rutger's women bball team are victims. Woe is me, i have the ability to play Division I basketball at the championship level, but Imus' words took that all away.
Apparently, the way to defeat feminism is to make nasty comments. You've come a long way baby!

[Althor]

Do you think the "nappy haired hos" are so traumatized by Imus' unconscionable comment that they will go bonkers like Britney and shave their heads? At least that way they won't be "nappy haired" any more!

Wonder if they will have to go to therapy and sit next to the "traumatized" Geicko Cavemen???

Althor :)

[darcy_lane]

jesus, althor :p
brevity is the soul of wit and all that

no one reads long screeds like that. before you hit submit, read it back edit yourself. just a constructive suggestion.

[Althor]

Darcy I am sorry about your A.D.D. I simply posted something I had already posted on Hyscience, and I noted it so. Next time I'll try to make it as concise as a Fast Food Menu where you can point at 1, 2, 3 etc. ok?

Althor

[JammieWearingFool]

Ironically, a road running just past the Rutgers campus is named ... Hoes Lane.

[micah]

Imus was making an effort to "talk gangsta" and be funny. His lame effort was ironicially, meant to be complimentary, he was trying to say Rutgers has a tough as nails women's team... But in his effort to be funny, Imus put his foot squarely in his mouth. It was offensive and disrespectful. But unintentionally so. Imus has apologized now. Raise your hand if you've ever said something that came out sounding TOTALLY NOT the way you intended it... Yeah, it's like that!

[Phoenix]

Jammie - too funny. Maybe Imus can plan the meet 'n greet there. We'd like to thank Rutgers for providing the location......

[caseyschenkofsky]

Actually, I think they simply would like to have media coverage focus on their acheivements and not on the promotional antics of an entertainer (if you can call him that... I hesitate to use the epithet that AFTRA has bestowed upon him). Unfortunately, it's out of their hands. There are too many people on too many sides who will claim their story. Kudos to the coach for at least trying to regain control of the media situation.

It is completely absurd to try to contextualize whatever comments were made by citing other examples of the same words being used by others. The team was singled out, plain and simple. And radio hosts do this sort of thing all the time. Apparently it costs a lot less to pay someone to be an ass on the air than it does to pay people to actually do good production work.

I cannot help but wonder what the perspective on this blog would be if we removed race from the picture. What if the insult was not tied to race... just to gender. Would people then complain about the women for feeling victimized? What if we had a bunch of freshly scrubbed white boys on a basketball team from The South or even South Jersey, and they had been called, uh, how about gas huffing rednecks... How would this blog react?

Maybe if you people thought about what words or language might cause you to feel pain, you could at least begin to approach what these very young students are feeling. Then again, maybe it is more interesting and entertaining to drag out the negativity for the sake of your own amusement until you are left with nothing.

[Althor]

All the Coach has done is to whine and moan, and go running with all her Rutgers "nappy haired hos" after every camera in sight, barging into every news room to give interviews, appearing on every newscast, and be the celebrities of every Morning Show!

Yes, like the Coach said, I am sure the Rutgers players will now be "scarred for life." I wonder if they'd be as "scarred" had it been Snoop Dog who had not only called them "nappy haired hos" but also his "bitches," which at least Imus did not do?

Scarred for life? What? Are they going to go nuts and shave their "nappy hairdos" like Britney, or are they so traumatized that they will have to go to therapy and sit right next to the Geicko Cavemen?!?!

Bah!

Althor

[Phoenix]

Good god............ Three white guys just got released from being hammered into a lifelong bad rep because of a nappy-headed ho.

Quit with the stupid sermonizing, Casey, and THINK a little about context.

[Phoenix]

Speaking of that - a nappy-headed pimp is still bludgeoning a white man for making a stupid joke. It was a damn joke. Ever listened to the black comedians on Comedy Central. Jaysus - that is some disgusting crap if I ever heard it.

[caseyschenkofsky]

Fair enough... context... some college students who also happen to be on a basketball team are criticized on this blog for what? Commenting on possibly slanderous commments made against them?

And then you have some college students who happen to be at a party (maybe underage and drinking, and oh yes, a stripper is there, I think) and what else, oh yes, they are lacrosse players! Were they violating team rules at the party? Were they called out on air by Imus as n lovers, or what have you? Where is the parallel? I don't think the situations are comparable. As for the whole comedian thing... If there is slander, someone can sue. Plain and simple. We can all go on and on about who is making too much of a fuss, but there are still team rules, FCC rules, corporate rules. Comedians and shock jocks get paid for pushing the envelope. If a group of women (who happen to be black) want to address misogyny in the media, I say more power to them.

[Althor]

I have no love-lost for that liberal arse Imus, but what I cannot fathom is that black rappers like Snoop Dogg use the words "nigger," "bitch," and "ho," and they exploit and promote in their videos treating all these women as if they were nothing but pieces of meat, and they give them music awards! But if an almost senile aging shock-jock calls them "nappy haired hos" jokingly, the reaction is wratcheted to unbelievably absurd and asinine levels!

Lesbian ape Rosie O'Donnell has said far worse and more heinous things on The View with impunity, and she gets a free pass from her sponsors, but God forbid that some aging foul-mouthed white shock-jock like Imus has the audacity of poking on the touchy ultra-sensitivity of po' ole' race-baiting blacks, because then all hell breaks loose and sponsors are intimidated into pulling out, as is happening with Imus, and all the black welfare pimps that haven't done a damn thing for black Americans other than live off them and feed them institutional poverty, welfare,crime-ridden Projects, Ghettos, and nothing but political tripe, get all bent out of shape!

This farce is simply too much! How lopsided must all this racially charged political correctness bullshit must get before someone has the balls to set it upright again?!?!

Frigging unbelievable! The political correctness and the bending backwards for every race, other than white, bullcrap is killing this country! Equality means "EQUAL"! Not privileged and to be gently handled with bubble-wrap and white gloves, all effette as if handling some incredibly thin piece of very fragile china! Enough is enough!

Sickening!

Althor

[caseyschenkofsky]

Again, if you remove race from the page, it is still misogynist. And the team is predomninatly black, but there are some whites on it too. Look at the roster and you'll see what I mean.

The more I think about this, the more I feel that anyone who is complaining about the team's reaction doesn't like women to be empowered, doesn't like basketball, and doesn't like people to speak out unless they agree with their position. It's kind of hard not to imagine otherwise. And so much for representing Jersey for all you NJ people here.

If you want to know about a documentary on the 2000-01 Rutgers team:
https://store.shopscarlet.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=1331
And here is a piece that addreses the emotional fallout:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/04/11/2007-04-11_he_hit_raw_nerve_in_my_nabe-1.html
"Imus also hit a raw nerve with his sneering contempt for black achievement, playing out the worst fear of many black professionals: that in the end, everything you ever learned or accomplished might end up counting for nothing, dismissed with a racist epithet by a group of chuckling, middle-aged white guys with power."

[Lilo]

Emotional fallout? Are you kidding me?

What happened to teaching our (God Forbid!) "leaders of tomorrow" that what matters most is not what people say about you, but what you do with your life? So some white guy insulted them... they are REALLY going to let that dismiss everything they have accomplished? Are you telling me that these girls don't have enough self respect to get over it and act like adults, rather than harping on and crying about it for the rest of their lives?

As a woman- a white woman, but a woman none the less- I'd be damned before I let something some smart ass, loud mouthed man said "dismiss" anything that I accomplished.

And just for the sake of a "how stupid is this entire deal",

Nappy:

nap·py1 (năp'ē) pronunciation
adj., -pi·er, -pi·est.

1. Having a nap; fuzzy.
2. Kinky; frizzy.

If you ask me, Imus has rather fuzzy hair himself. So, we could say he's got nappy hair.

Get the f*** over it.

[Getoveritpeople!]

You find "nappy" offensive? Well, get some hair relaxant, or lodge a complaint with the Maker at your local Church. After all, He's the one that went: "Ooops! I burnt another one" before He got it right. :D