Imus just another "whte-faced" fatality in the unequal world where Heimytown good; nappy-headed ho's bad!

I don't want to get into the Imus "thing" except to say, Ann Coulter has a point in saying public figures make themselves "fair game" for slurs and regular citizens don't. Imus said nothing worse or even close to as bad as the typical music coming out of rappers and other such personages who are wont to slur anything "white". But think back to a time when we were not so "thin-skinned" with our feathers plucked ready for the kettle of boiling water. We had shows such as All in the Family - the dupe, a white man named Archie Bunker; or how about Chico and the Man with Chico the great comedian raking in the Yankee dolla' as Freddie Prince proudly drove his '56 Chevy with the large, foam dice hung over the rear view mirror and the little bobble-headed doggies in the read window. How about the Jeffersons? I know you can name more. More recently, we have lost the funniest commercial - bar none - when the little dog I call "Dinky" was pulled for the adds on Taco Bell. Come on, the dog was cute, his accent was perfect. But some soper thin-skinned Hispanics tossed Dinky on the ash-heep of really great commercials. Yet we have had Will and Grace and not one scream of homophobia from the "gay" crowd. And then there is our little gecko in the Geico commercials but then geckos don't seem to have or need an advocacy group. And then along came the skin-thinner: a prominent baseball club owner (white woman) got reamed because of a conversation over-heard by someone on a commerical flight. Howard Cosell got the boot for saying "look at that little monkey run" during a football game. Now, who in their right mind thinks Howard meant a racial slur? He called his grandkids little monkeys for goodness sake. Rush Limbaugh got canned from a football commentators broadcast for something he said. Help me out here. Give me more examples where the WHITE man/woman has had to bow and scrape the ground for their dreaded racism but I been called Honky, Turkey, and worse. The NCAA, with no authority at all, gives the axe to various college sports teams because of their logos. On that I say, ALL of the teams in the NCAA should have shut the NCAA down. Slam the old boycott on the NCAA for messing in something that was none of their damn business. How stupid is it that the ever-so-sensitive-to-people's-heritage NCAA stripped the feathers from a logo honoring an Indian Brave? That's choice. We're trying to maintain a culture we look up to, ya NCAA bone-heads. But now, When was the last time you heard someone called on the carpet for slinging slurs at poor, institutionally discriminated against, white folk? Name them, please. Most recently we have Geraldo Rivera and his "Bubba", a racist code if ever there was one. Did he have to apologize? Is he still on the air? Of course he's still on the air. Not to give Imus a pass but he was only mimicking rappers. The decision about the Imus case is that MSNBC, noted for their high ratings, especially in the morning, canned the only person who was getting them ratings. My dog gets higher ratings than anyone on MSNBC, And where is Lester Holt? Now he is a good news caster. Fox News has a great news caster - Harris Faulkner - she's good, she happens to have black skin, and she's nobody's "token". I am also pleased to report that she seems to have canned the tons of lip gloss and that makes her even better. Matte lipstick for the news on Fox, ladies. Much better, more professional. You don't see the men layered down with lip gloss - Thank God. Help me out here: what white people have been creamed for what they have said in innocence and some one else has been offended by? And as Rush asked yesterday: where are the "black" faced news folks on MSNBC? We could use some fresh faces instead of Chris Matthews and all his rants. I say get Bob Parks. Get him fast, Black & Right.