I have a lot of fear for the future.

I wonder what will happen now that Don Imus has been fired. I myself being an avid fan of talk radio, as well as the occasional practitioner of it in the Internet, I can’t say that things are heading in the right direction. I have never seen an entire culture get so whipped up over something as nonsensical as ‘nappy headed ho’.

Yet, at the same time, as disturbing as the outcome of all this is, I have to sit back and laugh. Because now that it’s all said and done, the aforementioned phrase (which I still contend isn’t racist and now I can *really* prove it,) has been made culturally acceptable. Thank you Don Imus, for detoxifying what was left of an already benign phrase, and giving it back to the people. It shall now be used without discretion, and will become just as much a part of the American lexicon as “I’m Rick James, bitch!”

If you’re asking me how he did that, it’s very simple:

Stop and think for a moment. How many times have you heard ‘nappy headed ho’ in the last week? Scores? Hundreds? Thousands? You’ve heard it enough, right? Everybody’s saying it, and it’s stuck in your head. Not only is it the talk of all major media outlets including the Internet, the Internet community has taken it one step further. You can now by T-shirts and such with the words “nappy headed ho” printed on them quite easily. Looks like Al Sharpton’s campaign to stamp out speech has had the opposite effect. We are now out to embrace the concept of nappy headed hos fully. Thank you Al Sharpton, and thank you, Don Imus.

As far as me still contending the actual racist overtone of the word “nappy”, I have another angle to dispute that with, and that angle comes (unwittingly) from a black man I know. I explained what nappy meant to a lot of white people. He said he didn’t know that, and that’s fine. I’ll buy that. When he explained the concept of “nappy” to me I still didn’t get it. When he explained it to me, he explained it as “hair like his”.

All right, then. Let’s take this one step at a time:

Firstly, there is nothing wrong with this person’s hair. It’s very short, and it looks fine if you ask me. He looks like a black person would look when they have short hair. It appears to be low maintenance. He certainly doesn’t need to comb it or pick it or any such thing. He’s a black guy, with average black guy hair.

Supposedly, that’s what ‘nappy’ means.

I looked it up, and as far as blacks are concerned, that is in fact what it means. Very well, I will concede that point. However, let’s take a look at a second point, which at the time went unnoticed by me:

My friend said, “Hair like mine.”

…Hair like his.

You know what that means? I’ll give you 15 seconds.

It means that, by his own admission, my friend has *nappy* hair.
So, in that context since he used the term to describe his own hair (which again, doesn’t look bad) that makes the word ‘nappy’ a proper descriptive word. More succinctly, if my friend *says* he has nappy hair…that makes it *true*, doesn’t it?

And if it’s an honest description of oneself, I can’t see how it could be considered as derogatory. *That* being said, since defamation is the underpinnings of racism, by definition, “nappy” can’t be racist. You can’t have something be defaming/racist *and* true at the same time. It’s intellectually dishonest, and it doesn’t work.

Not that I should be surprised though, because it’s not like there has ever been any intellectual honesty in the media, especially when it comes to minorities. If CBS President Les Moonves is going to stand up and say that this is wrong and something has to be done because it “affects children”, if he were to be consistent, wouldn’t he have to revamp MTV, VH1, and BET? Of course he would. But he won’t. The same would go for NBC, which also fired Imus, but has no problem with Comedy Central’s Carlos Mencia. Has anybody watched *that* show lately? Of course not. Why? Because those are examples of media that place minority in the forefront.

General rule of thumb:

If you are a minority, you are completely innocent and incapable of any true wrongdoing. If you’re white…you’re the devil.

Imus has been thrown under the bus for no apparent reason. This has been nothing more than a targeted hatchet job. If you follow the media trail back to the day the “incident” occurred, it was picked up immediately by the bloggers, and then spammed into infinitum. If you do any honest research on Don Imus, you will find he has said much worse things that have gone completely unnoticed.

I’m getting tired of people being all bent out of shape and offended by words. I know that it happens to all of us, but this has reached epidemic proportions. People need to wake up and see what kind of constitutional crisis this poses on us all. America was founded on the principle that we all have the right to speak our minds. While I agree that there often can be consequences for doing such a thing, we are spiraling out of control. We all should be able to say what we want when given a public forum in which to speak. That’s kind of the idea.

People don’t seem to realize that the most effective way to deal with something you don’t like is to turn it off. When you make that kind of conscious choice, our capitalist system works this kind of thing out itself. That’s the beauty of it.

Point being, I may not agree with people like Al Sharpton, or Rosie O’Donnell or whoever the whack job of the moment may be, and as much as I would like to see those two in particular go away, it will just end badly in the long run. Despite the fact that I think they are idiots, I will stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their right to speak their mind. You should too.

The only true solution to this problem is for the culture to grow a spine. Be it the minority *or* the majority. I refuse to accept the Rutgers women’s basketball team’s claim of “Don Imus stole our joy from us.”

If that is your pretext, no, he didn’t. The media is who took away any supposed joy. It’s a safe bet that no one on that team listens to Don Imus or even knew who he was or is. If not for the manufactured media firestorm, Rutgers never would have known. Those girls don’t really care about Don Imus. They’re only acting like they care because they’ve been told to. You can only be offended if you allow it to happen, and honestly, who really gives a damn what Don Imus says? Get over yourselves, ladies.

I wonder what kind of joy they’re talking about anyway. Last time I checked, Rutgers got their butts handed to them in the NCAA championship game. That’s a whole other cultural flaw that is eating away at us. Finding joy in losing. That *has* to stop. Don’t even get me started on that.

If we really want to talk about stolen joy, why not talk about the Tennessee women’s team? They won the game, securing the school’s 7th national title. Nobody is talking about this team, that is led by Pat Summitt, the winning-est coach in the *history of college basketball*. …Pat Summitt is a *woman*, you know.

Nobody’s talking about Tennessee. How sad is that for those ladies. Where is *their* joy? This is sad. Rutgers has no right to complain, because all the attention is on them.

Perhaps the team who won (mostly white….’oppressors’ perhaps?) just isn’t as interesting as the poor downtrodden “abused” minority team who lost. Who knew?

We’re headed down the wrong road.

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