Mary Mitchell

i'd bet if Tom Joyner made those remarks instead of Don Imus there would be no blog here.

Mitchell comment:

Even Tom Joyner knows what Imus said wasn't funny.

I'm guessing the only thing we'll agree on is that what Imus said was disgusting...

Before Jessie does his daily walks on NBC tower, I think he should look back on those words he spoke years back, calling New York, "hymie town". Jessie, let he who has not uttered racially/religous insensitive words, cast the first stone. And Reverend Al...for someone who helped initiate a false story about a white on black rape in NY years ago, you too know what it's like to fall victim to "do anything or say anything" to generate ratings or popularity.

Then again, if Jessie plays this right, he'll negotiate a radio station out of NBC for one of his sons!

I was just discussing the fact that nothing was happening to the guy that referred to the teammates as "ho's" first. It's an absolute shame! We do know that if he had been referring to a team of white women, he'd be fired for sure.

Imus is an elderly, overgrown past-his-prime shock jock. Look at him, he's ugly. is he married? probably not, who would want that ugly mugg. So he "hides" on radio. He looks like a drunk to me. And drunks say damaging illiterate things -- remember Mel? We don't want him fired, we want his advertisers to blacklist his show. instead of Jessie and Sharpton marching in the streets, they should lead a letter campaign to Imus' advertisers. Like me, I'm going to find out who they are and write a letter; who's with me?

Ms. Mitchell, my anger or pissivity has simmer to barely a blip on a radar screen seeking large meteors headed to destroy earth in the last decade or so. It is NOT because I do not want to "Man Up" as some would say. It is when I do, I get into heated debates and some times it becomes physical. Please do not think I am easily intimidated. Meanwhile, I can give a whipping and take one without resorting to gun play. This means accepting the fact someone got the best of you. At my age I shouldn't have to resort to such matters, but it happens.

But a Don Imus, Michael Richards, Rush Limbaugh or any white male can NOT insult me as much as my own people have.

Case in point: Barack Obama is scutinize by other Black people to pass the so-called "Is He Black Enough" litmus test. In comparison we do not demand any white candidate set forth a realistic political/economic agenda with us. Also, we recently re-elected a White mayor again, who was States Attornery at the time Black men were tortured, and his cohort John Burge, are elected to office and retired, living comfortably off tax-payers money, respectively. He knows what happen, but plays dumb and we dumb down lower with him.

Do not demand for me to become angry with a silly white male who espouses racist remarks. (No you didn't say directly, but others in the media and alleged Black Leadership wants us to. You have stated you have never said any of the things which are commonly heard in the Afican American communities. Unless you are living in Oprah, Bill Cosby, Linda Johnson Rice, John Rogers and other such financially well-to-do neighborhoods, you have heard the words. I bet they have heard them too, ASK Ms. Condoleeza Rice.

Mr. Obama even admits to hearing them as a child, also.

It was\is media-savvy wrong to used the words Don Imus allowed to espouse from his head, BUT why not allow Rutgers University, the Coach, and the Female Players to respond to this slight before rushing to protest? I sit here thinking these young women need to be STUDYING making up for lost time on the basketball court, instead of worrying about another racist statement. It won't be the last one. They are losing valuable class time because OTHERS can not find a true cause to grasp onto.

HOW DO WE COMBAT IT? Exactly as the Rutgers female basketball players are doing. EDUCATE the HELL out of ourselves.

These young women parents were not allowed to sit down with them first to discuss the matter before others want to jump up and down and shout RACISM.

I do not need for others to tell me when a racist has slapped me. I need to plot my course of action to best handle the matter, and not appease every Negro, who hear worst when walking in the neighborhood.

I will be attacked for stating it, BUT RIDE ANY CTA BUS, and listen to the young people between 13 to 20. Listen to the adults between 21 to 30 years of age. I did not nor ever speak publicly in front of older Black women or women in general in this manner. My grandmother would have had my butt, and my mother who is only five foot five inches tall would grab my over six foot tall butt, and ask "What did you say?"..."Nothing!" would be my answer.

No the words were not created by us, but we used them so well, the White Male Executives of the music industry facillate BILLONS OF DOLLARS off of the foul words. They are words from a horrific past, but why do we dredge them up?

I understand well the ethno-centric, euro oppressive regime against people of color, BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!

IS THIS THE OPPRESSOR STILL KEEPING HIS MINIONS ON THE INCOME STATEMENTS, BALANCE SHEETS AND DISPLAYING HOW THE CASH-FLOW STATEMENT DISPENSES ITS CAPTIAL?

We need to wake up and realize, just like our parents told us when little, "Bricks and stones will break your gones, but words will never hurt you (unless giving them the power to do so)!!

I refused to give small people that power. Why are you?

In closing, FORGET THE DAMN APOLOGY, SUE MSNBC, CBS AND DON IMUS FOR DAFAMATION OF CHARACTER!...Learn to Play the game which the oppressor has put in place until being able to supplement it with OUR OWN economic and political power game!

Have a good day

I guess Imus came up with the phrase "nappy-headed hos" all by himself. If blacks would stop calling their women hos or refuse to continue allowing this kinda of conduct toward one another as a race, maybe white folks wouldn't get criticized for using terms you simply choose to accept as OK. Those terms would cease to finid their way into conversations...humorous or not. No double standards. Stop barking up the wrong tree and fight the real fight...yourselves.

Hi Mary,

When will you be posting in your blog about how Chris Rock should be fired from HBO for racist remarks?

When will you be posting in your blog about how Dave Chapelle should be fired from Comedy Central for racist remarks?

Please advise.

Mitchell comment:

Rock and Chapelle are not news commentators or talk show hosts. If you believe HBO should fire Chris Rock, you should start your own campaign.

Unquestionably, Imus must go, and I do not fault Rev. Jackson and Al Sharpton for speaking out, but I would like to see these two gentlemen speak out with the same passion and fervor against all these rap artists who songs are sexually explicit and contain lyrics that glorify the degradation of woman.

Whites don't go around calling their women hos. And if they do, guess where they hear the term used most frequently.

Hi Mary,

I do not think Chris Rock should be fired. :-)

But you do raise an interesting point.

By your response, are you saying it is "okay" to be racist in certain platforms? (chris rock on stage vs. don imus on his radio show)

Please advise.

Mitchell comment:

Of course not, but we're not talking about Chris Rock's comedy routine. I think you know the difference between Rock's on-stage comedy sketches and Imus's commentary.

Mary, you say Imus has to go. Guess what, I agree the guy is a jerk.

However, Mary, did you say Jessie Jackson has to go after he made his infamous racist and anti-semitic "hymies in hymietown" remarks?

Did you say Chicago Alderwomen Dorthey Tillman and Emma Mitts have to go after they made very vulgar racist anti-hispanic comments?

Did you say basketball player Isiah Thomas has to go after he made a very racist remark about a white basketball player (Larry Bird)?

Did you say Dick Gregory has to go after he said, "I heard it on a good source that all jews called off who work at the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?" He said that one morning a couple of years back right here in Chicago on the 'Cliff Kelley Show' (WVON-AM radio). Guess what Mary, he never told his source and he failed to mention 552 victims of that horrible incident were of the jewish faith. Talk about a lie and an insensitive comment. So again, did you say he has to go?

What about when Chris Rock calls President Bush a 'retard'? Does he have to go?

Are you aware that this Bernie character on the 'Imus Show' said two weeks earlier, "Atty General Gonzales should resign and then go caretake the lawns in Washington DC like all them kind of people do". Mary, where was the outrage then? There was none because the people complaining now were the ones laughing then. Afterall, Imus was a Bush-basher and considered a good liberal. And also, its okay to have open-season on any republican, which Gonzales is. So Mary, why didn't you say Imus has to go then?

Mary, what about all these rappers who demean women in their lyrics? And all these black comedians such as Chappelle, who make fun of whites and women (especially black women), do they got to go? ...I'd like to hear your reason on all of these why these are all acceptable.

Mitchell comment:

Obviously you know I've written about all those rappers who demean women in their lyrics. If you don't, check the archives. As for the rest of your set-up, what is your point, that I can't say Imus should be fired because I didn't Jesse should have been what--stoned in 1988. Well, guess what. I wasn't around in 1988.
As for what you would like to hear, when did you get to be editor? I'm doing good to post these long-winded, race baiting responses. Stop pushing your luck.

to Richard: Yes, I suppose Rock and Chapelle can always claim its just part of the comedy routine. But were Mary has to be careful is Imus I suppose can claim the same....All of them are WRONG. Also, remember this, Rock and Chapelle are at the mercy of the very rich, arrogant, and corporate men (most likely white) who pay them. Whoever is behind HBO. By the way, look how Jesse Jackson had to cow-down several days back when Gov. Blagojevich wanted to tax the big corporations in Illinois more. Make the big boys pay their fair share. Jackson had to back-off, take the corporates side, and go against the governor because Jackson knows damn well whose paying him, giving him his contributions, so he can jet-set around the world and stay at the finest places....So remember, if there guilty, which they are, there are silent and powerful people behind the scene who pull the strings, so they are more guilty...Am I right, Mary?

Mitchell comment:

Apparently you have inside information that I don't have.

First Michael Richards, now Imus in only the last few months. What goes around comes around. Memo to black people, this is only the beginning. You people have over played your hand badly. The everyday racist insults and little racist comments that whites have to endure is coming back to bite you. Because what you heard from Imus & Richards is just the hostility from white people coming out that has been building up for ten years now. I remember back ten or fifteen years ago I barely ever heard white people use the N word, now, I hear it used much more frequently by my people. I remember every white person I know saying how the cops in the Rodney King beating should be convicted. But today, most of those same white people would laugh at the beating and say "good, finally a case of a group of whites beating up a black instead of the other way around". My point being, most white people have been pushed to just about our breaking points. We are tired of being demonized by blacks as racists for no reason, and being blamed for black people's problems. If you are boiling a pot of water and keep turning up the heat, sooner or later the lid on that pot is going to blow off. And that is what you are starting to see now. Sooner rather than later, us white folks are going to blow our tops and we are going to say "screw equality and screw tolerance, we're tired of providing special privileges to people who just mock us and demonize us and rape us and kill us, lets look out for ourselves". And when that day comes, 1964 Alabama might look like a picnic. As pertaining to this issue, you black folks might want to use different people to lead your cause. Because using two racist haters like Jesse Jackson and Sharpton to speak and think for you only makes you look like fools. As for people being pissed off that Imus gets paid to entertain white people by bashing black people, grow up! You black people fill auditoriums and arenas all the time to hear blacks bash white people. Hell, just two months ago Farrakhan brought in 65,000 supporters in Detroit to hear his vile garbage. So as I said at the beginning, what goes around comes around.

Truthfully,we ,black folk do need to stop using derogatory words like they are words of endearment. No other race use terms that are deragatory as words of endearment. Rap artists and television and radio executives are just as much to blame. They pander to the groups who buy all that negativity and accept that negativity. Young white males buy more hardcore rap that all black people put together. If the executives thought it was bad they wouldn't release it. They are only selling to the ones being catered to. No one put out records to sell only to blacks. These young rappers are only taking the money and they don't care about the fall out. Why glorify something if there is no money to be made? If they thought Imus was wrong they would've fired him. But they won't because someone else would just hire him and say accept his apology. Most black people don't need Jesse or Al to tell us when things are wrong. We already know. Most black people never heard of Imus before last week. We don't listen to his station and wouldn't even know where to find him on the radio. He's been making racist remarks for years and we've been boycotting him for as long as he's been around. It's not up to black people to say "enough" with him. Truthfully, it's up to whites to tell him when he's crossed the line,because they are the ones who make him or break him. Just like everything else in this world. No one caters to black people. NO ONE. Now, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle sell to more whites than blacks. We're only 13 percent of this country and it's no gaurantee that all blacks will like someone just because they're black. We have a great tendency to not like our own kind especially when we see them doing well. Look at Arsenio: more black people disliked him because they considered him a sell out and they abandoned his show long before whites did. Before he had a show there was no forum for black people to sell whatever they did in entertainment. He helped a lot of black people and who were his greatest critics? Black people have to get it together or we'll become extinct. Imus is one of the least of our worries.

Mary, I think you are missing the point.

There is not a rule of thumb as far as what is "Racist" and what is "Comedy" and each person is going to view it a bit differently.

Case in point. Dave Chappelle mentioned on Oprah that he had to rethink his comedy sketches because the intent of his comedy differed from how the audience reacted. You cannot make the assumption that everyone is going to see comedy the same.

Much of comedy points to satire which will ridicule and often demean its intended target. Whether that comedy is racist or insensitive is up to each of us to determine.

I think that in many cases that black entertainers are not held to the same standard that white entertainers are held to because of this double standard. Blacks see Chris Rock as a black person and therefore it's alright. Whites see Chris Rock as a black person as well, however, since they have no emotional connection, nobody really cares to respond or say anything.

However, white entertainers are not given that same leeway because that same "Black Stereotype" is looked at as an attack on blacks and then is racist.

This is not me condoning Don Imus's remarks, just an observation. I do believe, however, that Don Imus's remarks are rich in his own brand of comedy that a certain element of the population finds to be funny. Rock, Chappelle and Imus have similarities because their comments exist as a social commentary of the age we live in.

When I was a kid I was offended by jokes about Polish people because I am Polish. I would assume that Fat Jokes would particularly offend people that are overweight and that Blonde Jokes would particularly offend people that are Blonde.

I personally believe that Imus went too far, I do not think he should lose his job because what Imus is responding to is his own impression of an element of the black community. In certain cases he stole direct comments from that he is being criticized for from Spike Lee.

The question I have for you would be is the message from black entertainers being lost by the audience? Do they have an even larger social responsibility than white entertainers in promoting their own ethnicity.

Most of these comments on this blog sounds like playgroup conversation. Why can't people on here view Imus comments about these young ladies as they are, racist, sexist, and very deplorable ? It's not about throwing rocks back and forward saying, Well if Chris Rock said this and rappers said that. The culture will never be able to heal properly unless The I-man comments are dealt with in an acceptable manner to those ones who he offended...

I think this is a women's issue that has been played out, in this instance, against black women. If they were white women that Imus didn't like, he wouldn't call them "ho's," but he would have called them "skanky bitches" or something equally insulting.

It's a shame this is being seen only as an issue against black women. The networks would have dragged their heels just as long if Imus had called white women something equally derogatory.

The sports media, like the society from which it comes, still has a long way to go before it understands how to respect women fully.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Hello Mary

I wanted to make a comment about Imus to you and I got off on something else I was reading about the Post Office, but I will get back to you on that later because it is very fishy.

I wanted to make a comment about Imus. When I first heard about it and I really couldn’t comment on it at work. I thought wow! But I went beyond wow. I said and as I write I don’t want to justify this man’s comments, because they deserve no justification. But listen, we live in a very segregated society, blacks with blacks; whites with whites; etc. Everyone lives in neighborhoods according to their ethnicity. Those that live in areas outside of their ethnicity are few and far between. We are only are in diverse surroundings at work. Suffice to say, most of the time at work, whites approach us talking black. Why? Prejudice and Ignorance to blame. But mostly the only images that whites see of us are from our black actors, comedians, singers and rappers. The images that they portray are always stereotypical. They in fact reinforcing stereotypes, but as blacks we accept this nonsense because they are black. The rappers which I like to refer to as “rapers” because they have raped an entire culture of decency, for money. They are fake gangsters that promote violence and live in crime free neighborhoods. But, I digress. Here is the thing. Whites listen and watch and think that this is the way we talk to each other. Calling our women B--- and h---- and let’s not forget the N___ word. Who would not think that this is the way we talk to each other. I was in a store the other day and heard this man calling this women b___ and h____. I was appalled and talked about him like a dog. The women never said anything. I think I hit the fan when he said “Hoe.. I just bought you something. Come on Bitch; let’s go to this other store.” I was in another store and I heard this man say to this girl “Hoe, get what you want.” She just laughed it off. We as a people have to break our own chains. Calling us out of names should not be accepted or promoted from anyone, and especially from black men, actors, comedians and rappers. They are the looking glass into our culture. What they say and do is a blueprint. The rappers started this deplorable mess, but are we trying to boycott them and get them fired from their jobs. That’s what we should be doing. We should stop promoting blacks that reinforce stereotypes. These are the only images they see. But then when it comes to white women on television, the images we see are always good and they always refer to each other as “beautiful” even when they are not. I will sum it up with this “what the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.” In so many ways, we are responsible for our demise. Let’s start voicing out on these rapers. Let’s stop eating our own s___, because it is given to us by these rapers and these actors and comedians. Halle Barry (sp) is coming out as I was told with a new movie. I believe the name is nappy something. Come on now. We can not expect people to treat us better than we treat ourselves. We have to cut this out of own culture and then it will be totally appalling when someone else does it. Would you expect your lover or husband to treat you like a queen when you act like a tramp? The rapers and actors have to be taught that they have to stop stereotyping us. Have you listened to the radio lately, listen to them degrade us. It’s all funny. It has to stop. We have to break our own chains. I am not excusing what Imus did; I am just saying there is a lesson to be learnt here. They won’t stop until we do. Now Sharpton wants him fired, and rightly show, but how many rapers is he protesting to be fired.

The words used by Imus were indeed insulting...

Where is the outrage for the Duke lacrosse team who were not called names by black leaders and a bullied DA, but were indicted by made up charges. Charges that will finally be dropped by the North Carolina States Atty soon. Go back and check the "insensitive" comments made by various black talking heads over the past several months - about these "priveleged white boys". It really is a case story for future business schools. The Rutgers girls team were given a blanket name by a dried up disc jockey but it does not compare the the treatment of three members of the Duke lacrosse team have been branded by name by made up charges and their life has been a living hell.
Where are Jessie and Rew Al?

Too bad that the only ones taking the lead on this are Rev. Jesse "Baby Daddy" Jackson and Al "Conk" Sharpton.

Is that the best we have in our community ?

BTW - look at the team pictures of the Rutgers women and I would have to admit, they would not be the first women I would approach for a date by any means.....

http://www.scarletknights.com/basketball-women/roster/roster-alph.asp

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l312/willielee/ajavon_m.jpg

IMUS is getting his just dessert and although Rev. Baby Daddy Jackson and Rev. Al "Conk" Sharpton do not have a moral leg to stand on, I applaud their taking the forefront on this.

The suspension is a slap on the wrist. Black journalists who work on NBC and CBS, the parent companies of the broadcaster and the producer respectively, should take a stand on this.

Derrick Baker, Marion Brooks, Steve Baskerville, Diane Burns, etc. should demand that this guy be fired. Just like the Cubans took a general work stoppage during the Elian Gonzales saga, our black media people employed by NBC and CBS need to take a stand.

This will never happen though. These vanilla Negros love that paycheck too much to make a real stand and risk their jobs. There are no Tommie Smiths and John Carlos' among our people today - brothers who will take a stand at their own risk for a cause.

Also, the reaction of the Rutgers girls and Black Coach is critical. If they say he apologized and they consider it a done deal, then they are just as much at fault. That coach, Vivian Stringer, will not say anything to upset white folks that employ her and the girls have their futures to look out for. If they will not speak out for themselves, how can they expect others to do so.

I believe all we have done is help this guy increase his visibility. He is crazy like a fox.

What Imus did is flat out wrong...

Not 5 minutes ago, I heard Stuart Scott, a black sportscaster say on ESPN:
"bitches and hos are affectionate terms in rap music".

Congratulations Black American women....you've got Stuart Scott in your corner!

Like everything in America the view of the Imus issue is based on Race. Most white's have adopted the company line, passed down by the Whites in Authority that: Imus comments were wrong; but, the offense doesn't warrant firing; then, Sharpton and Jackson are bad people and are seeking the camera and are really not concerned about the issue, just their own self-gratfication, and, that Sharpton and Jackson are both bringing up the race cards.

The rest of the Nation is taking the course of Truth, this is, it is obvious that Imus is a Racist. It is obvious that white people enjoy Imus on the airwaves and find humor in his racist, disaparaging remarks about Blacks and other racial minorities in America. It is obvious that Howard Stern is equally a racist with a radio show that too, makes it's basic foundation, the belittling of Blacks and other minorities in America as a priority and theme of it's show; and, whites love these types of programs.

At issue: What king of America do we want? Social Scientist already has said that by 2050 3/4 of America will be black and brown. I think we better then start having regulatory stipulations that govern the extent of where people can go on Public forums: radio, television, newspapers, records, CD's etc.. No not censorship but we can't have Nazi Gobbell's propoganda enraging and facilitating civil unreast in America because this is where this is going: Racial War and not of just Black and White. The other Races in this country will join in also. We better get it together. Imus should be fired. That is the Truth of the matter. He harms America with his Nazi, Gobbell's rhetoric.

Listen, Black people know who they are. They know they are not the stereotypes portrayed by Racist whites. They no African Ancient history was great and that it was destroyed by the Romans. The only folks who find humor in belittling blacks are racist white people. And, hip hop is not the same issue. White monopolise own the music industry and sanction what music goes on. Black politicians, yes, including Jackson and Sharpton and Farrakhan as well as many prominent and not so prominent blacks have all tried to get Rappers to stop using the (n) word, and degrading Black women on their lyrics; however, Black people don't run the government so they can't write laws to stop this.

Dear Mary,

My outrage starts with society for allowing this to become acceptable everyday conversation, where are the women actresses and journalists(aside from yourself offended) while I can understand Mr. Sharptons and Mr Jackson's anger there has to be a powerful african american woman out there equally offended (Hello Ms. Winfrey)

"or the fact that black people had to protest before CBS Radio and MSNBC took any action against Imus."

Please stop. There is a group in this country that is maligned by the media more than all other groups combined. The American male of all colors, economic position, and familiar status. And it's not just by the media. Major media corporations have long ignored the American male's pleas for relief from denigration. There are few major outcries when men, especially fathers, are degraded by the media. The media only relents when there is an outcry large enough that it might cause their profits to be affected. Do I blame them? No! Their job is to generate profits for shareholders and to sell advertisement. They go so far as to offend groups until those groups stand up and say enough is enough, and that should be their right (I am one of those annoying people who believes in the concept of free speech). If blacks, as well as whites, other minorities, men, women, and shareholders, will stand by for years while people like Imus spouts his vitriol, then CBS and MSNBC should not feel obliged to remove him. They apparently know their audience and shareholders and that's all that matters. If the audience wants Imus off the radio, all that they have to do is stop paying attention. If the shareholders want him off the air, all they have to do is vote with their feet and take their money elsewhere.

"the White Male Executives of the music industry facillate BILLONS OF DOLLARS off of the foul words"

You do realize that there are hundreds and thousands of BLACK producers, promoters, and executives who help the industry profit from foul words? You do realize that these rappers (and it's not just rappers) are grown adults who make the choice to make this music. You do realize that rappers would not have a voice if millions of people, blacks included, did not buy their albums. It's time the black community stop laying the blame on the white community for the rap industry. The black community has just as much, if not more, culpability for the state of rap as the white community does.

"all these rap artists who songs are sexually explicit and contain lyrics that glorify the degradation of woman."

Oh please! The objectification of men is just as bad. Music lyrics, television shows and movies, and even the state and federal governments have objectified men. Music artists, television shows, and movies have decided that the only men worth having are men with means. The state and American governments have decided that men are walking wallets to be picked (men without children are paying child support every month, thrown in jail, having their licenses revoked, forced into homelessness, and even committing suicide because we have laws that encourage women to commit paternity fraud). As long as these hypocritical pressure groups and media outlets continue to ignore these facts, I have no problems with the objectification of women. If women have no problems with looking at men in terms of monetary worth (the classic excuse is that women are looking for "security", but we all know that means money), then I have no problem with music artists portraying women as nothing more than sex objects. Until these hypocritical pressure groups and media outlets start to look at both sides of the coin, I am going to actively campaign against them.

Let me be clear, what Imus said was offensive by almost anyone's standard, even mine. But he does not deserve all of the blame. We have a culture that turns a blind eye towards sexism, racism, and injustice until someone with a mouth tells us that we should be offended. We, that's right - we, helped create this situation by not saying anything when he first made offense remarks. We helped create this situation by not demanding true equality. Our country is filled with hypocrites and people who lack the courage to do the right thing at the right time. We should stop paying attention to a talentless hack who's way past his time and look in the mirror at the true culprits - ourselves.

The most frequent guests on the Don Imus Show over the years have been Democrat politicians. How strongly have they come out to denounce the racist and sexist comments of their buddy, Imus?

Their answer is loud and clear....they have chosen to use the same people MSNBC, who host the Imus Show as the host for their presidential debate. These same "brave" wannabe's who hope to lead the world, Obama, Edwards and Hillary, refuse to debate if FOX hosts or particpates in the debate....BUT the friendly convines of MSNBC, Imus's racist home, is okay???