Rachel paid us a visit
Back in college, whenever my buddies or I said that Rachel came to pay us a visit, we were referring to any situation where race is an issue. You see "Rachel" was code for "racial". Corny I know, but you had to be there and if you refer to racially heated situations in a female sense, it tends to chill it out a little bit.
This week Don Imus a nyc radio personality, who hasn't been relevant to anyone under the age of 50 for about 20 years, got fired from his job as a morning disc jockey for calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team a "bunch of nappy headed ho's" Why do we care? We shouldn't, Imus should have been put out to pasture a long time ago, but guess what, he made money for people. Specifically his employers. Don Imus made his bosses at CBS about 15 million dollars annually. So it kinda makes him a big deal.
The funny thing is that it took CBS about 2 weeks to act on this and fire Imus. Strange they didn't fire or suspend after the comment was made, it was only after Imus' sponsors, the people who pay that $15 million dollars pulled their advertising from the show, because these companies kowtowed to public outcry. Read: about one hundred vocal people, probably black, probably led by the reverend al sharpton or blowhards like him, who would rather sit up on their high perch and pass judgment rather than help their own people. Don Imus went on al sharpton's "radio show" this week to apologize to everyone, I use quotation marks because his show is not carried in New York City over the airwaves, just the internet, which makes him as much listened to as I would be if I screamed out the window of my apartment building.
Needless to say al roasted him, Imus did not know what hit him. Imus could've have just gone on 60 minutes and spoke to Ed Bradley, shit I just remembered, he's dead. OK, maybe he could've gone on Oprah, wait she's only black when it suits her. OK, maybe al is the only person left and it does allow al to be relevant for another 15 minutes for what he perceives as doing the right thing. It is better than what al normally does, which is accuse an innocent white guy of raping 15 year old black girl. Or incite race riots in Brooklyn. I'm sorry I got a little sidetracked. My point is that Don Imus didn't get fired for hurling a racial epithet, hell I have heard much worse things than that at the dinner table at my family's house during the holidays. He got fired because sponsors pulled their advertising dollars from the station and Imus was no longer making CBS money. Now excuse while I look up al sharpton's internet radio show and write a letter to the penis lengthening pills that seem to sponsor every other stupid internet site out there.
