Don Imus’ New Sidekicks

Posted on December 3rd, 2007 - By Bossip Staff

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Don Imus went back on the radio today and has two new nappy-headed sidekicks. Comedians Tony Powell and Karith Foster joined him and will be discussing race relations among other topics on the show. Imus also made a statement for the ladies of the Rutgers Basketball team:

“I will never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me. And no one else will say anything on my program that will make anyone think I did not deserve a second chance.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Don. We bet he would say pretty much anything to get his ass back on the air.

Via NY Times

Chamillionaire will appear on Larry King Live this evening on the show that will discuss Don Imus’ return to radio and whether or not he deserved the second chance he is getting.

Source

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  • ???

    Don Imus went back on the radio today and has two new nappy-headed sidekicks.

    ^^^^ Smh.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Well, if we’re all about second chances, can the exes at Grey’s Anatomy puhleeeeeze bring Isaiah Washington back. It’s not the same w/out Dr. Burke!!

  • BETTYEJ

    Who in their right mind believe anything that comes out of his mouth. That hair he got on his head looks mighty na_ pp_y to me! lol

  • shawn

    shame on those black people accepting to work with him but then again why am i not surprised? there must also be some “slave“ willing to please his master

  • mydixiewrecked

    that dude is no more racist than those clowns at Faux news… I’m riding with Damon Wayans on this one.

  • weezy

    There is always a black person out there willing to be bought

  • Mr O Dot

    Ps,

    why you guys all upset?? No such thing as a second chance anymore?

  • Lovely and Amazing

    All Don Imus did was repeat the hatred balck men have for dark skinned black women. Just like the Spike Lee movie he referred to. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton hate the dark skinned rutgeers team and probably called them worse behind closed doors. Don Imus was scapegoated for black racism and ignorance.

  • JillyBean819

    shawn & weezy,

    I agree with you both. After all that Imus said, what respectable black person would want to work with him? I wouldn’t work with him is someone offered me 20 billion dollars to do so b/c, imo, working with him would make it seem as if black people are okay with what he said.

  • justme

    notice he didnt say that he didnt mean it, and that he was sorry, all he said was that he would not say anything like that (on his show) anymore…… so it aint no tellin how hhe relly feels, or what he is sayin about black people at home! he is basically stating that he is still a racist,ignorant ass, only this time around he is smart enough to not say the sh*t on his damn show! pathetic!

  • AND…

    @mydixiewrecked

    “that dude is no more racist than those clowns at Faux news… I’m riding with Damon Wayans on this one.’

    I’m with ya.^^^^^

    @JillyBean819

    I don’t know…20 billion dollars and I would be right up there with his ass…hell 1 million will do lol.

  • Mr O Dot

    lol, yall ignant

  • http://angstriddenblackwoman.blogspot.com RedCloud41

    Was it bad what he said? Yes. However, part of me wanted to tell Vivian Stringer to shut the hell up and stop playing the “woe is me card.” I kept seeing her on television and she was making all black women sound like victims, and I’m no victim.

  • AND…

    Lovely and Amazing

    All Don Imus did was repeat the hatred balck men have for dark skinned black women. Just like the Spike Lee movie he referred to. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton hate the dark skinned rutgeers team and probably called them worse behind closed doors. Don Imus was scapegoated for black racism and ignorance.

    Exactly, as if he does not have rights. He can say whatever he wants to say. Doesn’t mean it’s right or that he should be some people in here want to take away his constitutional rights. Hell how do you know that anybody isn’t dogging black folks behind closed doors? You don’t and never will so what difference does it make. Let him be full of hatred if he wants to.

  • Anonymous3

    so he managed to get two Tom’s to make him acceptable in Black America’s eyes???? I don’t think so

  • 504okaay

    “I will never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me. And no one else will say anything on my program that will make anyone think I did not deserve a second chance.”

    ^^^^

    OF COURSE NOT IMUS….YOUR ALREADY 9/10TH IN THE GRAVE ALREADY…TIC TOC TIC TOC….I KNOW, I’M GOING TO HELL FOR THAT !

  • AND…

    OF COURSE NOT IMUS….YOUR ALREADY 9/10TH IN THE GRAVE ALREADY…TIC TOC TIC TOC….I KNOW, I’M GOING TO HELL FOR THAT !

    lolololololol^^^^^^^

  • http://www.abovethespotlight.com cutie pie

    SELL OUTS!!!!

  • http://greatmindsthinklikemerainlillie.blogspot.com/ rainlillie

    Why is it that Bill O’Reilly, John Gibson, and Glen Beck can get away with saying racist things on a daily basis, but Imus was fired for his remarks. We should hold anyone that makes disparaging remarks about someones race, religion or sexual preference accountable.

    The difference between Imus and the other people mentioned above, is Imus was against the war and spoke out about it on his show.

    Of course what he said was offensive, but Fox News making false claims about Obama’s childhood was also offensive. Glen Beck asking the first Muslim congressman to “prove to me that you are not working with our enemies” Is also offensive. I believe that Imus’s firing was more about politics and less about the hurt feelings of people within the African American community.

  • NubianGoddez

    Now he got 2 nappy headed coon’s by his side. SMH

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal Sun Goddess

    I agree with you, rainlillie. No offense, but I think all those men are nothing but racist white ‘honkies’, in the words of my grandma.

  • AND…

    rainlillie

    Why is it that Bill O’Reilly, John Gibson, and Glen Beck can get away with saying racist things on a daily basis, but Imus was fired for his remarks. We should hold anyone that makes disparaging remarks about someones race, religion or sexual preference accountable.

    The difference between Imus and the other people mentioned above, is Imus was against the war and spoke out about it on his show.

    Of course what he said was offensive, but Fox News making false claims about Obama’s childhood was also offensive. Glen Beck asking the first Muslim congressman to “prove to me that you are not working with our enemies” Is also offensive. I believe that Imus’s firing was more about politics and less about the hurt feelings of people within the African American community.

    _______________________________________________

    So true and to add on why is it that black people get away with saying racist things on a daily basis? I watched about 4 mins. of Boondocks the other night and was in shock. How the hell do they let them play that? Is it b/c it’s black characters saying racial and stereotypical stuff or b/c the creators/director is black that it is excused? Please, if you’re gonna be outraged by someone’s racist comments then be outraged at all of them not just the WHITE FOLKS.

  • Kay

    It’s so funny how we as a black race, can sit here each and every day and call each other nappy headed, black as tar, and n*ggas, but get real pissy when a white person says it????? If we stop saying it to each other and especially in front of company, they have no choice but to stop saying it…..Whites aren’t the ones setting our race back, we are. We are our own worse enemy!

  • AND…

    @dani

    I never watched Grey’s so why did Isaiah get kicked off?

  • mydixiewrecked

    @ rainlillie

    my sentiments exactly!!!

    Hannity and Colmes (Faux News) attempt to belittle the black community on a daily basis but are never reprimanded. Imus’ remarks were made to entertain and shock, he was not placed on the air to “make nice”, hence shock jock. If anyone on here believes that Imus is the grand dragon then you definitely don’t need to listen to Howard Stern’s show. The intent of these shows is to boost ratings and revenue for the parent company (Viacom). They could care less about embracing or supporting a minority group. What’s really scary is that the same company that owns BET also owns Faux News.

  • AND…

    It seems that it’s okay for each race to say offensive things to their own but you can’t do it to any other race without getting in trouble.

  • dani

    AND..

    he got kicked off because he called one of the co-stars a “faggot” on set which was said behind the cameras and someone snitched and told the media and then it got out so he was fired. I’m not saying that it’s right for him to disrepect gay people but some people get second chances..if you get Don Imus a second chance than they can help the brotha out and give him his job back..he was a damn good actor on the show

  • TXbred

    I knew this clown would be back… he made too much money for radio to stay away for long

    Maybe it is cause I not struggling, definitely not rich, but Imus couldn’t pay me enough to be on his lame ass show. There are plenty of way to get money that dont involve his old racist ass.

    I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that he found two no-name black comedians who don’t feel the same way….

  • AND…

    Just like Halle Berry talking about her jewish cousin and they turned on her saying she was racist. Hell, that’s her cousin but her complexion was too dark to get away with it apparently and hollywood loves halle.

  • AND…

    @dani

    Is he working now? I mean for someone else. Imus got a job back but not his original job right?

  • dani

    AND..

    I agree but isn’t that prejudice though? Doesn’t that affect how we the human race communicate with one another?..I mean if some white person called me a watermelon eating black person..I wouldn’t get upset because I don’t like watermelon..I understand the negative connotation said behind it.but ignorance is to be laughed at..why get so negative and when it was already negative to begin with..that’s not helping it..lol..prove to that person their ignorance doesn’t matter…instead of getting Don Imus kicked off air..they should’ve had him fund his money into Spellman College

  • dani

    AND..

    I don’t know if he was working but the brotha does need some help with anger management though..he is too talented to be acting a damn fool..but I know in some way it hurt his career

  • AND…

    @dani

    I agree (11:35 post). I just can’t stand double standard. The same people calling each other the N-word and every variation of it meaning the same thing want to call Imus racist. If he is racist then so are they and yet I haven’t seen half as many people get upset about that.

  • brightseatbully

    It’s okay that a white person calls you a watermelon eatin black person? WOW…

  • hey

    whose Tony Powell? i’ve seen Karith Foster on Comedy Central. she’s mildly humorous.

  • http://musicisourhigh.blogspot.com AnOldieButAGoodie

    Guess I’m out of touch. I’ve never heard of Tony Powell nor Karith Foster

  • hey

    **who’s

  • nahnah

    Ummm, Imus’ whole establishment if offensive. That fool had a history of making ignorant comments against blacks.

    And so he’s got black folks as tokens, and I’m the only who find it offensive?

    Regarding him and making comments against the war. Umm, well, nobody wanted him fired accept for a lot of blacks. In fact, they tried hard to keep him, the pressure from Sharpton and ‘em was too much – and Sharpton himself is anti-war. So I seriously doubt that was the case.

  • nahnah

    *is offensive.

  • Pops

    Don like Isiah Washington didn’t get his old job back. Its a total different show now. He’s no longer allowed to make jokes without the fear of tactical censorship. just like Isiah Washington. Washington didn’t get his old job back but is now on nbc staring in the Bionic women. Unlike Imus, nobody was “OUTRAGED” over this. He was allowed to work with out idiots protesting him and he barely got any press from the media about it. Its just another example of the double standard.

  • follow the leader

    SMH, LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://whoseamerica.blogspot.com/ daria

    Home girl better keep the relaxers coming.

    Pops, a character on a TV show is less important than a man with his own show. Also, people did boycott ABC and many signed petitions online that led to the decision to have Isaiah fired.

  • Constance

    MSNBC audience is more sensitive toward blacks than Fox audience that’s why Don got the boot. Sponsors were pulling out as well. It’s a business you can’t let one ignorant person sink the network. Fox’s viewer’s(besides the ones that watch Fox simply because they love to hate Hannity and O’Rielly)have a very racist mindset so O’Reiley saying racist stuff doesn’t shake thier viewers. Very High rating on that show. Scary!

  • Cindy Shaw

    hell, that girl looks JUST LIKE HIM! are we sure this isn’t his illegitamate child from some nappy headed hoe? i don’t know .. and the gay brother looks like he stay clowing blacks, so good look for the uncle tom .. wow .. i can’t wait till something pops off ..cause you know it will :)

  • Crap Talker…

    Now white people are going to say that those two black people who now work with Don Imus were given Affirmative Action positions.

  • Bruce

    Your blog is really a joke. Get with it. White people do not think two African American comedians are tokens. Are you NUTS?

    Give the man a break.

  • http://myspace.com/thagrindaholic BLUNTBLAZER

    WHY TONY GOT THA GAY NEYO LOOK

    WHO R DEZ PEOPLE DAT SOLD OUT TO GET A JOB

    http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THAGRINDAHOLIC

    PEEP THA NEW SMOKERS ANTHEM “SMOKED OUT”

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    Larry King is really unattractive. I mean, really.

    There’s a more bangin’ dilemna…Larry King or Don Imus?

    Gotdayummmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!

  • Bahama Mama

    does anyone else find this funny? he gets in trouble for calling a race “names” then goes and hires said race on hs next show? It’s like those ppl that say ” I’m not racist, i have black friends”

    LMAO!!!

  • dani

    @ Bahama Mama

    I thought that too that is hilarious!

  • Curly Fries

    This could be hella interesting. I wonder what Imus’fanbase thinks of this.

  • John

    Nothing but white folk double talk. Yes, Don will say what he think people want to hear just to get back on the air and as to his two black cohost, I bet they won’t be there long!!

  • Curly Fries

    Yeah, WeSSide, Larry King is TOE up! He looks like the gecko on the GEICO.COM commercials. And he has a little girl, so somebody’s been giving him the puddy….ewww!

  • helltothanaw

    Curly Fries-

    And he has a little girl, so somebody’s been giving him the puddy….ewww!

    ^^^^The thought alone makes me wrech….Ugghh.. Lawd, help me..

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    Curly Fries…

    uh…i’d happily, willfully and graciously give it to that GEICO gecko… Sh*t…i’d give it to any gecko before I’d let a toe up alien headed lookin’ lizard like Larry King near my puddy!!!

  • AND…

    Bahama Mama

    does anyone else find this funny? he gets in trouble for calling a race “names” then goes and hires said race on hs next show? It’s like those ppl that say ” I’m not racist, i have black friends”

    LMAO!!!

    I heard he had a black guy on his last show so these two are nothing new and I doubt it’s for acceptance. He has his show back meaning he’s getting paid. What the hell does he care if the blacks accept him?

  • Lil Ray Ray

    I can’t wait to hear Chamillionaire talk about that racist Don Imus. Maybe he should apoligize to the white folk for going in white face in a rap video. I guess its funny when we make fun of whiteboyz, but its bad if a dude like Imus wore black face. I doubt Larry King will call him out on that. You would never see some haevy metal singer in black face in a music video. They know better. Its wrong on both ends.

  • Gerald

    Thats true. If Fat Britney Spears dressed like Oprah, we would want her banned. This hate gots to stop.

  • alecia

    did Chamillionaire had a baby with yaya from american next top model

  • Shawn08

    I’m glad he is given a second chance. We need to do that with Michael Vick as well. Let’s see if it happens!

  • dani

    @ AND…

    he sure did..lol

  • Kdogg

    Superman That Ho!

    More black kids know and are affected by that line than will ever be affected by Imus’ comments.

    AND >/B>

    No I am not distracting attention from or taking up for Imus,

    BUT

    What’s the point of scrutinizing this guy and not our own?

    AND

    If Rap is just entertainment andis protected by the 1st Amendment,

    SO

    Is everything else anyone wants to say about us includin Don Imus.

    I say, Protest Them All

  • Kdogg

    As someone already stated, he had at least one black person on his show the first time. If I am not mistaken, this so-called brotha, actually participated in the use of the word “ho” to describe the women as well.

    Superman That Ho

  • AND…

    dani

    @ AND…

    he sure did..lol

    Damn now why didn’t that get national news like Imus and Dogg.

    @Kdogg

    You are right. $100 says you go into a high school in inner city and ask the kids who is don imus they couldn’t tell you but ask them to sing the lyrics to crank that soulja boy and they would all be in unison. You are on it man. We (that includes me) are focused on Imus like he is reaching everybody. These kids are calling each other ho all the damn time and WE don’t throw a fit about that. SMDH…

  • nahnah

    More black kids know and are affected by that line than will ever be affected by Imus’ comments.

    AND >/B>

    No I am not distracting attention from or taking up for Imus,

    BUT

    What’s the point of scrutinizing this guy and not our own?

    AND

    If Rap is just entertainment andis protected by the 1st Amendment,

    SO

    Is everything else anyone wants to say about us includin Don Imus.

    I say, Protest Them All

    __________________________________________

    I agree!

  • dayg715

    yeah, yeah, excuse the real racist by blaming our own. just goes to show, black people get dumber and dumber as the days go by.

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    I say, Protest Them All

    __________________________________________

    I agree!

    ___________________________________________

    second the motion!

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    I second the motion!

  • http://deleted IBW-Ideal Black Woman

    I definitely watching Chamillionaire on Larry King…that’s gonna be way more interesting than seeing Cam’ron on 60minutes.

    Never heard of these two comedians…they must be trying to jump start a career that never got off the ground. I bet you those two grew up in the surburbs, went to an all-white school, and are conservative.

  • nahnah

    Commercial Hip Hop AND certain R&B/pop are in need of major reforms. And that goes to the Beyonce lovers out there. Her style of music is as DANGEROUS as commercial Commercial Rap.

  • Mahogany

    Chamillionaire is a pretty well spoken individual.

    I bet he’d sound even better if his mouth didn’t weigh 3 lbs.

    :)

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    Commercial Hip Hop AND certain R&B/pop are in need of major reforms. And that goes to the Beyonce lovers out there. Her style of music is as DANGEROUS as commercial Commercial Rap.

    ^^^^

    i agree, nahnah. and of course, not only her style of music but her “style,”

    —period. The hair, the image, the empty chatter…gross! Once, i would love to see that sister come out with her little afro…but it will prolly never happen. all hopes of that prolly died when she/her handlers had her real nose cut off and the fake mammaries slapped in.

  • Kdogg

    Some people have tried to defend our music and minimize its effect on our music by pointing out the fact that whites are the main purchasers of it. Whites are probably the main purchasers of most things in the US since they are the majority, but thats beside the point. They probably were the main ones purchasing tickets to the minstrel shows as well. They came out in droves to watch hangings. Slave Auctions were social gatherings.

    Our music has become a parody of our culture and has become guilty of defining our culture as well. Whites have always loved watching us make fools of ourselves and they have never had a short supply of minstrels to please them. Our entire culture right now is labeled as “The Hip Hop Culture.” We are the only ethnic group (African American) to have their culture limited to a style of music. We are the only ethnic group that lets the music define our behavior…our speech, dress, etc.

  • Kdogg

    @ nahnah

    Obviously I am talking about the public use of those words. I am also clearly directing this at the music as I would get paid everytime a song was made using those words. I’m also accurately describing our youth as their vocabularies have become increasingly limite. Nah mean? Nahmsayin? That was a hypothetical statement and nothing more.

    However, I take my kids to a park on Sunday afternoons. Why do I hear the “N” word constantly coming from the black kids at the park? White kids are there too. They may be saying it behind my back but the kids that look like me are saying it out loud in front of everyone. Thats a reality. If we don’t use the “N” word more than whites, we definately use it in public and in our music more than they do. Thats more harmful in my opinion, especially if an impressionable 5 or 6 year old is around…like mine were, at the park.

  • AND…

    nahnah

    Commercial Hip Hop AND certain R&B/pop are in need of major reforms. And that goes to the Beyonce lovers out there. Her style of music is as DANGEROUS as commercial Commercial Rap.

    _______________________

    IDK about her style of music maybe I’m too much of a fan to see anything wrong with it but her style in general needs to reform. I also agree with your 5:09 post but disagree with the 4:54 post. I could very well be wrong (and I hope that I am) but I think the majority of black american use the N-word

  • Sun Goddess

    when I read your posts, the song that pooped in my head was “Man in the Mirror”. Michael Jackson wrote truth when he wrote that song. We got to start with ourselves….I agree with you one million percent!

    I’m Starting With The Man In

    The Mirror,

    I’m Asking Him To Change

    His Ways

    No Message Could Have

    Been Any Clearer

    If You Wanna Make The

    World A Better Place

    Take A Look At Yourself And

    Then Make The Change

    You Gotta Get It Right,

    While You Got The Time

    ‘Cause When You Close Your

    Heart

    You Can’t Close Your . . .Your

    Mind!

  • Sun Goddess

    My last post was to KDogg.

  • AND…

    @Kdogg

    I really enjoy reading your threads.

  • nahnah

    If we don’t use the “N” word more than whites, we definately use it in public and in our music more than they do.

    __________________________

    Yes, we do, in public. It’s true.

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    i wonder if I am awaiting moderation on all threads…

  • brightseatbully

    i can’t quote you any statistics, but i know MANY black professionals (doctors, nurses, bankers, professors, attorneys, teachers, social workers…) that use the n-word. it’s wrong, but it happens. at no point, however, does that make it ok for don imus to do such.

    more importantly, did Sun Goddess quote mike in a previous post? and nobody’s gonna say anything?

  • dani

    @ brightseatbully

    why should that matter if sun goddess quotes michael jackson? That song is very postive and he he didn’t write it…but he sang it from his heart..lol.however I agree with that i have heard black people from different backgrounds use it

  • dani

    @nahnah

    that’s the question that I’ve been asking for so long..why do we use it..where did it begin???..How did this happened?..i dunno we might not ever know..lol

  • http://www.myspace.com/ilovemyfans Beyonce

    I GUESS IT PAYS TO BE WHITE!

    CHECK THIS OUT GO TO:www.myspace.com/ilovemyfans

    FOR SOME REASON BEYONCE HAD THIS SONG REMOVED. LEAVE ME A COMMENT AND TELL ME WHY YOU THINK THIS SONG WAS REMOVED FROM MYSPACE!!!

  • brightseatbully

    it matters that she quoted it simply because it’s FUNNY. i like and know the words to many songs from 20 years ago. am i about to write the words on an internet message board? no. hence the humor. it ain’t personal. just comical.

    Mamasay, mamasah, mamacusah.

  • Bruce

    Continuing to discuss Imus is a waste of your time. He is back and if you don’t like it don’t listen.

  • brightseatbully

    extreme, yet appropriate.

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