What a nation we have become when telling the truth or voicing an opinion can create a platform for the likes of Al Sharpton and others like him. Good for Imus telling it like it is.

Mr. Imus,
Although I may disapprove of much of what you say, I have defended with my life your right to say it. Jack Hunt (USMCR '58-'64)

I am an Imus fan and miss him terribly in the morning! What I think is ironic, is the only time he gets on television news is for allegedly making comments that got him taken of the air in the first place????

Don Imus' comment was not racist - he is the furthest thing from a racist - his show provides a forum for discussions on race almost every day.
Unfortunately there are too many people out there who want to see him smeared.

Every Black person in America who looks at every white man's remarks about Black people as somehow racist will see it one way and the rest of the Black community and other white people will see it the other way (the correct way as far as I'm concerned)
I've watched Imus for too many years to believe he is racist, or would make 'racist' remarks.
Just like the prior so-called racist remarks against the girls basketball team...He would have made those comments regardless of the color of those girls skins... Big girls, with tattoos etc...

Plus, I don't see Sharpton & company stopping the Black entertainers from making their N word remarks - as they promised ...or the vile they spew at the white community on a nightly and daily basis. (does anyone care - not so you would notice) Pure, pure, hypocrisy...of the most self-pitying kind. It's getting to be a little much.
Black hate mongers have finally found a 'whitey' they can stomp on and keep stomping on! Oh, let's hear the whine......"Well..what have they done to us for so long?" The same old script is getting boring. Same old whine...

america!!!! get over it. It's still the land of freedom of speech. I'm sure Imus was only trying to make a point.
It is amazing that the truth still hurts

Let me get this right -- Pacman, whose entourage brutally shot and paralyzed for life a bouncer in Las Vegas, is upset over what a radio personality said?

All those who called for and are calling for sanctions against Imus ought to compare his "offense" against the arrogant, gun-toting criminals who invaded that club. And Imus was trying to defend the guy.

This junk of knee-jerk prejudice against anyone who the priests of race decide have offended their constituency has to stop. If you care to, turn off your radio to stop Imus -- In the case of a bunch or 300 pound gun-carrying athletes there ain't much you can do -- As Tommy Urbanski will remember for the rest of his life.

Call the Pacman crew and those who choose to chastise the remarks what they are -- cowards.

I agree with Mr. Hunt's comment above.

That being said, we "should" have the right to voice our opinion as long as that opinion or comment does not bring harm or hardship to another person. That's why we have the Bill of Rights guaranteeing freedom of speech! Without this we are just as guilty (if we're not already) of those regimes we seek to supplant and artificially create democracies in.

When did this country get so thin-skinned and whiney??

-V

Considering his last mini-scandal, perhaps we can at least admit that Don Imus showed poor judgment in even asking the question. Indeed, why did Imus ask the question about Jones' race? And, thereafter, why did he feel compelled to comment in that manner?

As long as the establishment keeps blacks and whites fighting between themselves over things like this Imus and Sharpton nonsense, they will continue to keep us from doing something revolutionary about how this country treats its ordinary citizens.

We have to keep these folks honest, and Don Imus should be NO exception.

Maybe, he was being "sarcastic", but he either continues to try to re-write the history of his (Rutgers) comment in order to escape further guilt, or he is a closet RACIST who continues to be INFATUATED with a person's skin color! OsiSpeaks[dot]com

cmon, after him already being targeted for saying nothing bad about the girls basketball team
(if a black man said it he would of not been in trouble at all and they do say things worse)
as if he is going to be that careless again , especially when the weirdos listening to him just waiting for him to say anything that they can turn around and use against him .
he said nothing wrong
the media is amplifying this black power nonsense.
give it a rest, next it will be the terrorrists claiming they are being
slandered.
truth is truth, statistics are statistics
i dont see all the media all over the story of why marijuana smokers thrown in jail like hot cakes
no of couse not
the media is garbage
imus , i dont listen to no talk shows i think its for retards
but he did and said nothing wrong
bottom line

Imus is a racist,nuff said

The most outrageous thing Imus said was "black men get arrested for no reason in this country." Jones is a criminal and should not be in the nfl.

My agenda is simply to make a point about the ridiculous intolerance associated with political correctness. It is a well documented fact that African-Americans are significantly overrepresented in criminal activity. Don Imus simply said what anyone living in the real world often thinks. The degree of intolerance directed towards Don Imus underscores the hypocrisy of political correctness. The hypocrisy is that tolerance is an objective only if you agree with the feel-good, let’s all hold hands and sign Kumbaya mentality that defines the PC movement.
Words like “racist” and “bigot” have become the blunt instruments with which PC assaults truth and beats down any attempt at open and honest dialogue about the real nature of social problems- especially many of the challenges facing the African-American community.
What Don Imus said was not smart and agreeably insensitive. But he is not the issue! How can we grow as a nation and address real problems like the disintegration of the African-American family (7 in 10 AA children are born to a single-parent home), the fact that in most urban communities 1 in 2 AA children don’t complete high school, or the culture of violence that claims over 7,000 lives in the AA community each year, if we waste energy focusing on a shock-jock’s statement of the obvious?
In a highly publicized 1995 report, the Sentencing Project found that nationwide about one in three black males age 20 to 29 was under some form of correctional supervision. As the Sentencing Project reported, in 1989 about 610,000 black males in their twenties—23 percent of the cohort—were in custody. But by 1995 that number had raised to over 827,000—32.2 percent of the nation’s twenty-something black males. One could quibble with the estimates, but the finding is valid; in fact, many estimates indicate that the number is already closer to 50 percent.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_2_my_black.html

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVHollisCrime90306.html