Don Imus

[wolfeskins]

Originally Posted by hooskins

Ok so instead of bitching at each other about stupid little points, how about discussing the big issue?

Racism is still present in America, how should we deal with it? Honestly how much have accomplished by arguing about the stupid filter.

Perhaps Imus should have lost his job, but he lost it for all the wrong reasons. He lost it because of money and image, rather than people consciously trying to deal with the issue.


Obviously quite a bit of Americans are uneducated and do not have resources to understand the issues, so I personally think we need to do more to educate people all over the US, so there will be less "bigots". To me the alarming thing is people who are racist but have money and are educated. You would think going through education people will not develop racist views, but that isn't true.

Another point that TMC brought up, and that I would like to ask some of the black members at this forum, and that is do you think Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are good leaders of the black community? I know they give back a lot and that is a positive, but as some members mentioned they seem to segregate the community rather than integrate.


Any thoughts? And please only response to my post if you want to have a civil discussion.

i agree with you. i feel though that racism will always exist simply because
blacks and whites naturaly segregate themselves from the other. look into a cafateria in a elementary school you'll see kids of all races sitting together , now look at kids in jr high and high school and you'll see most whites sit with whites and most blacks sit with blacks, now look at people out of school whites hang out with whites and blacks hang out with blacks. i know there are exceptions but for the most part thats the way it is. when a controversial issue arises people tend to side with their own race.