Don Imus vs Al Sharpton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF9BjB7Bzr0

This above You Tube link includes what former MSNBC and CBS radio host Don Imus said about the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team as he said it on April 4th 2007. Now there is one simple issue about this post and it is regarding racism. At first glance, it appears that Don Imus is the guilty party due to his saying of "Nappy Headed Hos." Now the simple definition of this phrase is simply dark haired prostitutes. Now we know that prostitutes are women who give themselves up for money, but the word prostitute and ho can be taken in different contexts. That what Don Imus was trying to establish with his comments and the final score, in which Tennessee won 59-46, backs him up.

Now the only thing that can realistically be racist is the comment about the tattoos which can be understood to have been said tattooed as in tattooed to the court by Tennessee. For the record though, tattoos are on many women nowadays. If you don't believe me, check out season one of Survivor in which Kelly has a tattoo down her back.

Now to get back to the comment, here is what I believe Don Imus actually said in the context of the Women's National Championship on April 3rd: "Those Rutgers girls, they were pretty sick last night (after the loss), they got tattooed , those are some dark haired prostitutes (In this case, they laid down to Tennessee which the sports media had them ranked #4 in the final poll of the season while Rutgers beat #1 ranked Duke 53-52 en-route to the final.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaw/polls;_ylt=AlB8Vx8bOeW6h7_xZg_OK0dMvrYF

This above link means that Rutgers can beat good teams. Now I don't know Don Imus personally, but he might have liked Rutgers Women's basketball as well as all sports. For the record, Imus might also been lead on by one of his guests. Right before he said the phrase "nappy headed hos" one of his guests called them "Hard-core Hos," and Imus simply decided to stay away from calling them hard-core knowing they lost.

Now here are some links of Don Imus together with the "Rev." Al Sharpton, a few days later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknRJnuTCn8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaftrHk0e1c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJD1Pfqxk10

The first link in this group is simply a 4 plus minute clip of Don Imus with Al Sharpton on Sharpton's radio show. Here, Don defends himself yet again and Al calls for him to be fired. For the record, their meeting on Sharpton's radio show took place following the Easter weekend. Last I checked, Easter celebrates Jesus rising from the dead after paying for our sins including those of Don Imus and Al Sharpton. The second includes Imus asking forgiveness, while the third is Imus simply calling out Sharpton for the bully he is.

However, bully might be a too weak word to describe Sharpton, but here is a good compromise. Al Sharpton is a pig-headed, racist, bully. I arrive at this comment after asking myself What Would Jesus Do? When it comes to Don Imus, he asked for forgiveness and Jesus asks of us to forgive one another seventy times seventy. Now this is a super far cry from what Al Sharpton preaches which is hate while Jesus Christ, the living son of God, preaches love. God willing, Don Imus will come back and while I do hope he sues the living daylights out of CBS radio and MSNBC, it better be just for the pay that he lost during Al Sharpton's 2007 PC Witch Hunt.

The View from Dakota Country will continue to follow this story as it develops.