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A. the Rutgers University women\'s basketball team\'s official team name.
B. nappy headed means that you look like you just woke up from a nap.
C. People with kinky hair like african americans or caribbean descent
have a problem with the hair getting matted and mishapen. It has to be
stretched out and arranged before it will look presentable. When
someone calls you a nappy head it means your hair is matted and
uncombed. a ho is a slang term for a whore. As you can see, this is
not a nice thing to say to a girl.
B. nappy headed means that you look like you just woke up from a nap.
C. People with kinky hair like african americans or caribbean descent
have a problem with the hair getting matted and mishapen. It has to be
stretched out and arranged before it will look presentable. When
someone calls you a nappy head it means your hair is matted and
uncombed. a ho is a slang term for a whore. As you can see, this is
not a nice thing to say to a girl.
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I will never understand how MSNBC continues airing Imus when his show promotes some of the most hateful, sexist, homophobic, racist garbage imaginable! I stopped watching the show long ago because McGuirk and his disdain for anything that's black. Imus gives McGuirk free rein to air out his hatred towards blacks, and in typical conservative fashion -- despite McGuirk pretending to be a free-thinker -- he'll pass it off as satire; whoever offended is being a liberal, politically correct sissy.I don't mind it when whites make jokes about blacks and poke fun at the stereotypes; at least when Sarah Silverman, Howard Stern, Lisa Lampanelli and the great Don Winkles, joke about blacks, you never sense this arrogance, ignorance and disdain in their statements. There's a deep appreciation for blacks and our culture (and no Hip Hop isn't our only culture, it's a sub-culture that stems from black urban youth).
With Imus and his team -- especially the vile McGuirk -- there's this pompous, elitist, "exclusively for whites only" attitude that comes with their remarks. They may consider themselves free-thinkers because they trash the Bush Administration and this senseless war he has gotten us to, but they’re very calculating to the sense they know exactly what to say and do to reach a particularly demographic that enjoys racist remarks dressed as social satire. Its the same tactics Rush Limbaugh and Weiner Savage employs
Imus, McGuirk and Rosenberg go far beyond racially insensitive satire; they're hateful, condescending, ignorant, destructive remarks that lack irony, grace or intelligence. What’s even more outrageous is that McGuirk wouldn’t DARE make these same remarks when there’s a black guest on the show. McGuirk enjoys bragging how he was raised in an all-black urban area and how he survived, but he’s sure spineless when there’s a black guest on the show.
- Preston_P / Wednesday April 4, 2007 07:31:46 PM EST
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Does anyone here realize what today is? This is the day that MLK was shot and killed.
For these slimeballs to spew this overt racist garbage today is obviously a provocation.
Colon-'el' Campbell: you have every right to be a racist, ungentlemanly oaf, and mankind has the right to regard you as such. I suggest you return to whatever cave you came from.
- Cartoon Messiah / Wednesday April 4, 2007 08:05:52 PM EST
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This has me shaking, I'm so angry. Don Imus thinks our athletic daughters should be held to a different standard than their male counterparts. Evidently, our daughters are there, not to play the game, but to turn on old white men. If they do not live up to this sexual standard, Mr. Imus is there to casually remind them that they are ugly whores- and he will tell our black daughters that their hair in its natural state is ugly, and that they are ugly whores. Sickening. I've emailed MSNBC, Oprah Winfrey and several blogs- Imus and Co. need to see that they can't say these things without feeling the logical, negative consequence.
- christies473707 / Wednesday April 4, 2007 08:33:38 PM EST
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I hate to admit this, but I do listen to Imus in the background most mornings. He is refreshingly bitter, pissed off and angry at everything, just like I am most mornings. It makes my fact based cynicism feel less deranged, although his is more of a personality flaw and the consequence of brain damage and the corruption of wealth and power. He is correct about half the time politically and that is exactly 100 percent more accurate than anything else on cable "news" networks. What ya gonna do when you want some semi brainless entertainment that doesn't involve teen talent shows and Oprah/"dr" Phil drivel? Imus is a country fried hick, although he is a fake cowboy wannabe from New York. But he is better than most of what is out there. Sad really. But I need something to listen to while brushing my teeth.
- lovethebomb / Wednesday April 4, 2007 11:27:00 PM EST
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You would need to define "nappy" in order to make your point. When I was a child nappy meant "tangled." Therefore are you saying the women's hair are tangled. Or are you using a racist signifer to describe the texture of their hair, and if so, are you asserting that each and every one of these women have the same exact texture of hair or are you grouping them all with one large brush stroke which would be quite racist because it would suggest they are all the same because of what signifer?
- chasingmoksha / Thursday April 5, 2007 03:40:17 PM EST
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i would define nappy as the overall texture of the hair that generally all black people have in north america. i mean there is nothing wrong with their hair, it just is what it is.
lets just say that black people generally have the same kind of hair, and for one to say that black people generally have "nappy" hair, isnt in itself racist. white people generally dont have nappy hair, its usually straight or curly. some people do though, and i imagine that some black people may have straight hair but honest to god i never seen one. of course i could use nappy as an insult, but would that itself be racist? or me just pointing out an obvious characteristic of a group of people and making fun of them for it because i want to be mean? lets be careful when throwing out the racist card, its very easy to associate it with anything when refering to a group of people. someones people are not racists, they are just jerks. clearly imus falls into the jerks catagory, is he a racist though? that i wont make a call on
- ngdoms3075 / Thursday April 5, 2007 03:54:23 PM EST
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You're wrong, but feel free to go out and test your theory. Get into a conversation with a black woman, and as politely and innocuously as possible refer to her hair as "nappy." I guarantee that she won't just take it as an obnoxious insult, but she will regard it as a racist remark.
- clams casino / Thursday April 5, 2007 04:19:38 PM EST
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On the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, host Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team, which is comprised of eight African-American and two white players, as "nappy-headed hos" immediately after the show's executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, called the team "hard-core hos." Later, former Imus sports announcer Sid Rosenberg, who was filling in for sportscaster Chris Carlin, said: "The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the [National Basketball Association's] Toronto Raptors."
McGuirk referred to the NCAA women's basketball championship game between Rutgers and Tennessee as a "Spike Lee thing," adding, "The Jigaboos vs. The Wannabees -- that movie that he had." McGuirk was presumably referring to Lee's 1988 film, School Daze (Sony Pictures), though co-host Charles McCord misidentified it as "Do the Right Thing" (Criterion, June 1989).
In a June 2, 1991, review of Lee's Jungle Fever (Universal Pictures), The New York Times described the rivalry depicted in School Daze:
"School Daze," his 1988 satire on an all-black college similar to his own alma mater, Morehouse, turned the friction centered on color into a pointed burlesque. The college's women divided into two camps, the dark "Jigaboos" and the fair "Wannabees," who taunted each other in one scene with the epithets "pickaninny," "Barbie doll," "tar baby" and "high-yellow heifer."
Rosenberg's comparison of the Rutgers women's basketball team to the Raptors recalled comments he made in June 2001 about Venus and Serena Williams, two African-American female professional tennis players. According to a November 20, 2001, Newsday article, Rosenberg said on the air: "One time, a friend, he says to me, 'Listen, one of these days you're gonna see Venus and Serena Williams in Playboy.' I said, 'You've got a better shot at National Geographic.' " Rosenberg also referred to Venus Williams as an "animal." Media Matters for America noted those comments when Rosenberg alluded to them on the March 28 edition of Imus.
Also, on the March 30 edition of Public Broadcasting Service's The Charlie Rose Show, regarding the NCAA "March Madness" basketball tournament, host Charlie Rose asked CBS sportscaster Billy Packer: "Do you need a runner this Final Four? Because I could jump on a plane and I could be there." Packer replied: "You always fag out on that one for me. ... [Y]ou always say, 'Oh yeah, I'm going to be the runner,' then you never show up."
In 2000, as noted by an article on ESPN.com, Packer made comments that were viewed as disparaging to women, when he said, "Since when do we let women control who gets into a men's basketball game? Why don't you go find a women's game to let people into?" Also, as noted in a March 4, 1996, article in The Washington Post, Packer "describ[ed] Georgetown guard Allen Iverson as a 'tough monkey' during the Hoyas' nationally televised game against Villanova" during that year's NCAA tournament. Packer later apologized for both comments.
From the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning:
IMUS: So, I watched the basketball game last night between -- a little bit of Rutgers and Tennessee, the women's final.
ROSENBERG: Yeah, Tennessee won last night -- seventh championship for [Tennessee coach] Pat Summitt, I-Man. They beat Rutgers by 13 points.
IMUS: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and --
McGUIRK: Some hard-core hos.
IMUS: That's some nappy-headed hos there. I'm gonna tell you that now, man, that's some -- woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like -- kinda like -- I don't know.
McGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing.
IMUS: Yeah.
McGUIRK: The Jigaboos vs. the Wannabes -- that movie that he had.
IMUS: Yeah, it was a tough --
McCORD: Do The Right Thing.
McGUIRK: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
IMUS: I don't know if I'd have wanted to beat Rutgers or not, but they did, right?
ROSENBERG: It was a tough watch. The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors.
IMUS: Well, I guess, yeah.
RUFFINO: Only tougher.
McGUIRK: The [Memphis] Grizzlies would be more appropriate.
From the March 30 edition of PBS' Charlie Rose:
ROSE: Do you need a runner this Final Four? Because I could jump on a plane, and I could be there.
PACKER: You always fag out on that one for me. You know, you never -- you know, you always say, "Oh yeah, I'm going to be the runner," then you never show up. But I'm sure they can find a place for you. You've got all the connections in the world. You can go ahead and be a runner any place you want to.
—R.C.
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