I haven't seen one person say that he had no Constitutional right to say what he said, so drop that straw man right there.
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I fail to see how calling some women ugly hos warrents a "zomg! die you klansman" response.
Maybe I am not in touch with reality, but it seems to me that there are more important issues that the "black leaders" should be getting upset over.
I can't speak for them, and it does seem like a lot of the people making noise about racism go around looking for reasons to complain more for self-aggrandizement than real condern for the cause. Whatever. This isn't about Sharpton.
The problem I have with it is not so much the blatant racism as the misogyny. Here you have these college girls playing their hearts out and doing so much better than they'd ever expected, playing a perenniel contender for the national title. It's the stuff movies (not great movies, but again: off topic) are made about. I mean, show of hands: who ever heard of the Rutgers basketball team, either gender, before this happened?
They're not in a beauty contest, and they're not in a "girls gone wild" video, putting themselves out there to be judged on the basis of looks and/or acting slutty for the camera.
They're there to win a game, not to look demure and appealing to some washed-up old fart.
So what he said was well, for one thing, not funny. For another, it was completely outside the context of a basketball game. Like Sharpton seeking reason to take offense, Imus was seeking reason to give offense. Demeaning the looks of a group of college athletes was just his subject of choice at the time.
It wasn't earth shaking. It was just uncalled-for and rude. /shrug