Quick, Quick, who was playing against Rutgers when Imus insulted them? Anyone know? Not me. I am thinking it might be Kentucky, but I don't remember ever hearing who they were playing. I bet not one in a thousand could answer this question today, yet thousands would now recognize the Rutgers Girls on any street.
Now, I don’t think people should say nasty things about other people to get a laugh. I especially don’t think powerful loud mouth celebrities should say nasty things about average Joes, or Janes in this case. But, the Rutgers Girls, and others, are saying that Imus took away their moment of Glory with his hateful words.
The truth is, very few people would even know that Rutgers had a women’s basketball team if it were not for Imus. He did not take away anything. He provided the team and coach their 10 minutes of fame and national recognition that they could not have known even if they had won the game against their unknown foe. The fact that you and I do not know the name of their foe, the national women’s basketball champions??, proves this point. And he paid with his job. Who’s laughing now?
And, while I am on the soap box, how can a person I do not know, and do not like, hurt me by calling me nasty names? Nasty names from our loved ones hurt. Nasty names from strangers should not matter. I do not care what Imus or any other stranger thinks of me or what names they call me. And, further more, they cannot make me care. In reality, most of the time, I do not even care what my loved ones think of me let alone caring about the opinions of a world of strangers. What really matters is what you think of yourself. I wonder if the Rutgers women really cared about Imus and what he said, or just thought they were supposed to care.
Here are my words to live by, for Imus and all. Try to live your life so that when asked, 'Did you do that?', you can hold your head high and say, 'Yes, I did that.' If you would be ashamed to admit to the deed, take the high road, and don't.
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I think they were playing Tenn. and I think they lost.
Don Imus would not have been fired if his advertisers had not pulled their ads. He really messed up because one of the CEOs of his backers was a black man.
What is really sick is in the rap records the singers use the same terms and folks pay to hear them.
yuk.
Tenn!
Well, to further prove my point, I searched on google to find out who the winner was. It took at least 10 minutes to find anything about the game at all. I got hundreds of hits on Rutgers women's basketball, but they all lead to the Imus thing, and did not mention Tennessee. Try to search google and find anything about the actual game.
Are you at home? Or are you in Nebraska?
I am home. And, it is finally a nice day, sunny and not too cool. I am tired of cold and rainy.
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