Well, at least he doesn’t seem to be getting a complete pass from the media. It has already ignited a “firestorm”
I never really heard of this one as an insult until this board. I do realize that Imus used it insultingly but in his case it’s just one of a pile of insults.
I first heard when a high-school friend of mine suggested–after a four-hour ordeal involving washing, conditioning, the application of eye-wateringly pungent solutions, more conditioner, oil, a hot comb, and a curling iron–that she might just let it go nappy.
I’d never heard the word before that but the context was pretty clear, so I said, why not?
She gave me this look that said I knew nothing and informed me that then she’d end up looking like Paula. Paula was another black girl at school whose hairdo consisted of dragging a wide-toothed comb halfway through her hair, then leaving it there. She didn’t dress very well, either.
So–when applied to my friend, “nappy” was not an insult, just something she thought she might let her hair do and in fact eventually did. (It looked fine.) When applied to somebody she didn’t like, it was an insult.
Exactly - since when are gangsters and their PR reps supposed to be emulated? This is just like that argument that it’s ok to use racial slurs because black people do it. Is that how things work now? If black people do something that means it’s ok? I wish somebody told me that.
Well, growing up I just heard nappy applied to fabric, like clothing or couches. I think the first time I heard it used about hair was by Adam Corolla on Love Line.
Personally, I think Imus needs glasses, the hottie quotent on the Scarlet Knights is higher than that of the Lady Vols to me.
I’m about as non PC as they come, but I just can’t get around the Rutgers womens basketball team being described as “nappy headed hos” and “jigaboos”. You bet your ass if somebody pulled that shit on Sportscenter, they’d be gone before they finished their shift. It’ll be interesting to hear how this plays out for Imus, I wonder if he’d repeat it in front of some of the 6’-8" 300# NBA guys. Nah, but maybe they’d be kind enough to remind him next time he’s out in public.
This is only tangentially related, but look at the title for Halle Berrys new movie in which she shaves off all her hair!
I was hoping for Oops!.. I’m Batshit Again: The Britney Spears Story, but alas, no.
Ugh! I know someone that worked with him before and after he stopped drinking and they said he’s just a horrible person. I can’t believe the celebrities and politicians that go on his show and practically kiss his ass so he’ll be nice to them.
He’s nothing but a dry drunk bully that should have retired years ago. He has a lot of nerve talking about looks. Talk about Dorian Gray in reverse. He’s every bit as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside.
Although Imus has always said stupid shit ala Rush Limbaugh, nowadays it just reeks of desperation to get any sort of attention, negative or positive. And Jesus, the picture of him in the link is downright scary- this guy is talking about someone not being attractive- how delusional. I’ll bet he thinks the hot young wife is there for his looks.
And the really bad part is since fellow racist Spike Lee was referenced, assuming this is becomes a national deal (again, since its Imus, a nobody, I have doubts this will spread outside the Garden State Parkway), we will be subjected to his idiotic response on TV ad nauseum.
Great example - now do you give into someone who’s obviously “trying too hard” to get attention with his (her?) obvious race-baiting, or laugh at his uninspired effort and then ignore him? We’ll see.
Ugh. I do sometimes think the so-called “black community” waaaay overreacts to some things, but this is offensive from the get-go. It’s like he tried to include every racist comment he could think of.
Why is Don Imus talking about sports anyway? Is he a sports commentator or is he just a talk show host?
I’ve also heard he’s a son-of-a-bitch who’ll do anything for shock value.
And I have heard nappy as an insult. I was once told by a girl “comb your hair or it’ll get * really nappy*, like black people.” :rolleyes:
Agreed. It was bad.
Question, though. Is the Jigaboo v. Wannabee reference to team names in a movie? Because the most offensive part of the quoted interchange was this, IMO.
If it was a reference to a movie, it is marginally less so.
Yes, part of a dream sequence in a Spike Lee crapfest, which will rehash the whole “if blacks can call themselves that why can’t we” debate. 
It was a movie reference but they weren’t team names, they were racial insults that two hostile sororities used against each other. Imus was repeating the insults quite straightforwardly.
Monstro
Well, speaking as someone that is extremely un-PC, I’d say that this guy is a total jerk and should be censured in some way for this.
WTF? I didn’t even know you could say something like that on the air. I haven’t lived in the US since the early '80s and I realize things have changed, but that whole conversation just seems incredible.
So, I think most people agree that this guy was way out of line on this. What could be done to make sure he doesn’t repeat this behavior?
Regards
Testy
I don’t even recall Howard Stern in his Un-PC heyday every saying anything like this. He may have played clips of other people saying such things, and definitely has had racist guests on the show, but he himself I don’t think ever did. And the funny thing is, Stern could get a million dollar fine for saying a naughty word, but because Imus technically did not break an FCC rule, he will face no consequences, unless the station has the balls to fire him- its not like he’s an advertisers wet dream or a ratings magnet anymore.
Shoot him? Why should anything be done, though? Who cares about stupid Imus?
pizzabrat
What a terribly un-PC thing to say! 
No, not shoot him. But something. Some way to make him realize that this kind of behavior makes him unpopular and potentially unemployable. Personally, I loath the whole “bitches and Hos” kind of language anyway and have no desire to hear some asshole crapping over the women of the planet with those terms.
The Jiggaboo and Nappy remarks seem gratuitous and completely over the top. I can’t believe he didn’t just call them all niggers and be done with it. A jerk that throws those kinds of terms around on the air should get some kind of negative feedback. Considering the total shit-storm over Janet Jackson’s tit, I can’t believe someone could say these kinds of things over the air.
Regards
Testy
Imus once again crossed the line, however being surprised by what this well paid Shock Jock says would be like getting surprised when something stupid or hateful comes out of Howard Stern’s mouth.
They are both in business to shock. They have different methods, but in the end it is the same idiocy.
This statement will get him in no more trouble than any of his past stupidities have over the last 15 years.
Jim