Don Imus’ New Sidekick Speaks

Posted on December 6th, 2007 - By Bossip Staff

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Karith Foster

Comedian Karith Foster had a chat with Essence and discusses her new job working with shock jock Don Imus:

Essence.com: What is it really like to work with Imus?

K.F.: He is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. He does have the grumpy old man demeanor. I’m not saying that is not who he is. That is definitely part of who he is. But he is definitely a very kind, gentle person. If I hadn’t seen that side, if I wasn’t aware of that side, then I don’t think this would be a position I would have considered. Our very first discussion—ever—was about the Rutgers situation and what he had said and my feelings about it. I’ve been in the comedy business for about ten years, and you (develop) a gauge for people; you can tell who is BSing you after the show. This man was truly, genuinely sincere and regretful for the hurt that he caused people. In that conversation he said he always made it a policy not to make fun of celebrities’ children or public figures and so forth because that’s not fair. And that (his comment) was wrong.

Essence.com: Did he call you first? I’m just curious how this happened.

K.F.: It was being at the right place at the right time. It was arranged through a manager. I remember very vividly when everything happened because my uncle had just passed away that weekend when everything broke, and he (Imus) was meeting with the Rutgers women. I remember thinking, Wow, I just wish I had been there to be able to say something. It’s kind of like the universe heard me.

Essence.com: I hear what you’re saying, but someone out there will say that you were hired to save face for Imus. Your reaction?

K.F.: (Long pause) Well, I am not here to defend the man. I am also not paid to be his policeman. I am here to contribute to a historically entertaining show. I have no issue whatsoever speaking up when I feel the need to. I feel as if I am here to represent. That is another reason I took the job. What an opportunity to be a positive role model, not just for African-Americans and not just for women, but especially African-American women.

Essence.com: Are you going to hold him accountable when he goes too far? Because sometimes he does.

K.F.: Absolutely. There is a fine line. The rules in comedy are this: All is fair in love and comedy, but it has to be funny. There is a fine line between being funny and malicious. But it’s a distinct line, and when you cross it, I think something should be said. And I think you should be held accountable.

Essence.com: Interesting.

K.F.: Listening to it and having heard the actual recording of the nappy-headed hos (incident), it was so obvious it wasn’t malicious. He was an old White guy trying to be young and hip and use the modern vernacular. And it wasn’t funny.

Click here to read the interview in its entirety.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    1st :-)

  • Jay

    2nd

  • http://myspace.com/minnidapooh Minners

    I don’t believe it

  • Bahama Mama

    eh

  • DROCK

    I DON’T GIVE A F_CK ABOUT IMUS…AND PEOPLE WHO READY TO START MARCHING & PICKETING THIS STATION NEED TO GET A CLUE..HOW ABOUT MARCHING ON AIDS EDUCATION IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY..AND MARCHING FOR THE END OF BLACK ON BLACK CRIME!!! HELL, I DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IMUS BREAKING IN MY HOUSE AND SHOOTING MY MAN!! BUT I DO GOTTA WORRY ABOUT MALIK AND THEM…(was that to harsh?? sorry but yall know last week with all those deaths was a hard one)

  • Bahama Mama

    PREACH ON IT DROCK!!!

  • Mrs

    dont know who she is – frizz ease is all I’m saying

  • Traycee

    Drock…….that wasn’t hard at all. Hell, I doubt if it was hard enough.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Okay, I know she won’t admit it, but her job is window dressing. LOL, kinda like when the folks at my firm pull me into a presentation or proposal that needs someone of “color”. Now, they don’t state the obvious, but when you’ve been around the block for a minute, you know what’s up. LOL, I just hope she was smart about it and is getting a hefty salary ’cause you know she’s facing backlash, so she might as well make it worthwhile.

  • T.J.

    Again black folks picking the wrong battles. We need to be thinking about electing Obama and breaking the last glass ceiling instead of worrying about this ho and her master. BTW notice she is nappy headed. SMH. Should we call her steppa fetcha?

  • http://stylerazzi.blogspot.com StyleRazzi

    She looks like a “nappy-headed hoe” to me!!!! LMAO LMAO LMAO!!!! J/k

  • justme

    cosign w? DROCK!

  • Soul Cry

    …right place at the right time…

    Token.

  • justme

    (W/) accedental question mark^^^

  • nahnah

    They gave this token kneegrow a script and paid her a few bucks. How insulting.

    Regardless, I never made that Imus thing a big deal anyway. I think we have bigger fishes to fry, yet ain’t nobody lookin’ to fry them big fishes. We’re too preoccupied with what some ugly racist has to say.

  • justme

    and i spelled accidental wrong Im sleepy

  • WOL

    Amazing…I saw she had a personal blog on MeetRich,com, a private site for millionaires&celebrities I heard of from a friend of mine. The blog is updated very often. I think it may be ture.

  • Soul Cry

    @Nahnah

    much agreed, the issue should not be how others view us, but how we view ourselves. My mother use to say, no one can make you feel anything, you only allow them too.

  • Lili

    She needs to stop fronting. She knows she and that black dude are getting paid top dollar to be his token sidekicks. Working for him is like working for the cigarette industry: just keep quiet and collect your checks.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    She’s not nappy-headed, more like frizzy headed. “I” am nappy-headed. :-)

  • AND…

    DROCK

    I DON’T GIVE A F_CK ABOUT IMUS…AND PEOPLE WHO READY TO START MARCHING & PICKETING THIS STATION NEED TO GET A CLUE..HOW ABOUT MARCHING ON AIDS EDUCATION IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY..AND MARCHING FOR THE END OF BLACK ON BLACK CRIME!!! HELL, I DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IMUS BREAKING IN MY HOUSE AND SHOOTING MY MAN!! BUT I DO GOTTA WORRY ABOUT MALIK AND THEM…(was that to harsh?? sorry but yall know last week with all those deaths was a hard one)

    Second^^^^^^^ not too harsh but it’s called tough love and WE need more of it.

  • nahnah

    much agreed, the issue should not be how others view us, but how we view ourselves. My mother use to say, no one can make you feel anything, you only allow them too.

    _________________________________

    if a lot of us didn’t subconsciously accept certain labels in our community, would we be so offended? if we as a people would more self-assured, we would not be worried about comments like that.

    and all that time spent protesting this guy could have been better spent on these bloods and crypts(sp?) who are killing each other in newark, nj or elsewhere.

  • Traycee

    RUBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    BTW, Mary Fayke, since you’re down with Carols Daughter, can you hook me up with some hair products?!?! LMAO

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Frank L, your account isn’t accurate. When Dog’s pastor, Tim Storey, was interviewed by CNN soon after it happened, in not uncertain terms, he disclosed how disappointed he was w/Dog and layed into him. Even when he appeared on Larry King, it was the same story. LOL, I got the sense that the pastor “went there” because his initial conversations w/Dog were harsh. I think you’re confused because Storey has also forgiven him and has not thrown him under the bus.

  • Mrs

    Oh dont start that one off again.

  • Sun Goddess

    There arew so many more important issues than the personality of Don Imus, or why frizzy-rizzy is his new side kick. That’s all I have to say.

  • blknykr

    There’s nothing to smooth out with the black community. I doubt advertisers will give a damn whether the black community is appeased or not. All that counts is that Imus gets ratings and the sponsors are satisfied.

  • OH YEAH!!!!

    Lili

    She needs to stop fronting. She knows she and that black dude are getting paid top dollar to be his token sidekicks. Working for him is like working for the cigarette industry: just keep quiet and collect your checks.

    PULEZZ, do you really think they’re getting “TOP” dollar??

  • Anonymous3

    like I said Don found two “Tom’s” to try and appeal to the Black Community….what she choses to do and accept is totally up to her but don’t try and spoon feed me the B.S.

  • Anonymous3

    meant to say *chooses*

  • Fiddy

    Seem, this is what they think they can still do…. I’ll get a black token on the show, so they’ll believe I’m not really a racist!! Don’t white folks know this is the oldest trick in the book.

    This goes to show black folks that they really believe we all are dumb! He’ll be callin her a nappy-headed-ho sooner than we think!!

  • http://www.biteme.com **80_RUBIES**

    WHAT UP TRAYCEE!!!

  • From the Back

    Black people are becoming the most simple minded people on the planet. If we continue to let Amerikkk paint these negitive images of us we will never make progress as a people. The problem is to many black people have brought into the lies of their oppressor and we haven’t said nothing about it. We have imbraced the pimp, hoe, gangsta, uncle tom idenity and carry whatever HollyQuier tell us we are with honor. I remember seeing the Mack and I really wanted to be that type of a black man. Boys in the hood, State property, Belly, and every rap video is destroying the minds of the people and if you don’t see it then your sleep. If Imus would of called those girl some hook noise Jews it wouldn’t even had been a question of getting rid of his racist ass. Image comes FIRST, the bible says “so shall a man think so shall he BE”. And I just want my people to BE. Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. 30+ million strong we can change this. The youth needs us on all levels.

  • d

    Who cares? Yeah, some people are going to call you a sell out. Should have anticipated that. All this interviewing is just trying to generate buzz. Be gone. Don’t care. If she’s comfortable with her decision, good for her. Do I buy the whole being a positive role model for black women? Well, if she means by doing the show and nothing else, nope. Does she have an obligation to do so? Nope. I’m not going to trash her but I’m not going to support her either. Really, Howard Stern has a black female co-host. I think more of Stern than I do of Imus.

  • d

    P.S.: better get a good flat iron boo.

  • Narcotics Anonymous

    like I said Don found two “Tom’s” to try and appeal to the Black Community….what she choses to do and accept is totally up to her but don’t try and spoon feed me the B.S.

    ^^^

    the More Money we Make, The Less Power We Exercise

    Let Imus bring his dead looking ass to Newark so we could “spread his fortune”

  • Narcotics Anonymous

    no homo…hahaha

  • Blacka

    TOKEN!!!!!!!!!

  • AND…

    nahnah

    much agreed, the issue should not be how others view us, but how we view ourselves. My mother use to say, no one can make you feel anything, you only allow them too.

    _________________________________

    if a lot of us didn’t subconsciously accept certain labels in our community, would we be so offended? if we as a people would more self-assured, we would not be worried about comments like that.

    and all that time spent protesting this guy could have been better spent on these bloods and crypts(sp?) who are killing each other in newark, nj or elsewhere.

    So True^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  • Prince Donte

    Oh well she got to look at that werewolf looking fool every morning that is curel and unusual punishment she should march for her

  • NubianGoddez

    Cosign with Drock and From the back.

    @ But he is definitely a very kind, gentle person. If I hadn’t seen that side, if I wasn’t aware of that side, then I don’t think this would be a position I would have considered. “what other position did you have line up? damn quislings ain’t got no shame.

  • Miss T

    I for one think it’s great, we have two of ours working in a great job instead of being unemployed. This is what should of happened from the start. They are around to more or less censor him; it is a winning situation for all involved ( this is called diplomacy). Imus is an old guy who is set in his ways and for a long time this sort of behavior was okay, however, now everyone needs to be politically correct and be mindful of others feelings. The best to them all.

  • JaliliMaster

    Miss T

    I for one think it’s great, we have two of ours working in a great job instead of being unemployed. This is what should of happened from the start. They are around to more or less censor him; it is a winning situation for all involved ( this is called diplomacy). Imus is an old guy who is set in his ways and for a long time this sort of behavior was okay, however, now everyone needs to be politically correct and be mindful of others feelings. The best to them all.

    =====

    You are being rather naive.

  • Miss T

    No, I am being realistic!

  • Constance

    It tips me out how Imus was talking about thier hair. Have you seen your hair Imus. I look like that stringy stuff we use to put on christmas trees

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  • Poppa Smurf

    Damn. Why is Don Imus making jokes about black folk? Thats not right he should be fired. He should only be allowed to talk about 65-70 year old whit people. The same goes for Steve Harvey. He shouldn’t make jokes about rednecks. He should only make fun of his own race as well. Shaq should have been fired for doing that Chinese accent on Yeo Ming a fw years ago. Matter of fact we should just pretend we don’t see differences in anybody and lets just pretend we are all female rutgers basketball players.

  • http://www.yahoo.com Southern Belle 225

    @drock

    cosign!!

  • Observatrice

    I am going to give this sista and the brotha workin’ with her and Imus a pass. There is so much garbage in media today, I can’t see where else they would go. If they can feed themselves and others with the money, I say go ahead while the U.S. dollar is still worth somethin’. I think it was right to protest Imus though, we need to fight the problems both within and outside of our community.

  • Miss T

    I cosign with Drock as well, what about unemployment, Katrina, Black on Black crime, the war in Iraq, health care, the over population of minorities in prison, taxation without representation, the public school systems, come on people keep our eyes focused on the big picture!

  • usmarine

    So they are basically Condeleza and Colin Powell to George Push, put a person of color up front while cutting programs that benefit the AA community. While the ignorant negroes are like we have one of our own in office!

  • From the Back

    Miss T

    I feel you 100% but do we continue to let HollyQuier make us out to be a bunch of low life COONS?

  • From the Back

    Drock

    That black doll, white doll test still got lil black girls running to the black doll. You can have all the education in the world and still hate yourself. Crips and Bloods kill each other because they been taught to hate THEMSELVES. Our hair aint kinky its KINGLY.

  • From the Back

    I mean white doll. Hotep

  • BossLady

    But if Imus would have never hired anyone black, he would have been a racist for sure. Seems like we were our happiest in the hands of the slave owner. Makes me wonder sometime.

  • Of Course…

    He would go hire a Black woman to try to repair his image. As a fellow “Nappy Headed Hoe” a.k.a Black Woman, I say F%$# Imus and the people who support him. Calling us Nappy Headed is one thing but on top of that you called us Hoes. Yo’ Momma!!!

  • Miss T

    @From the Back, first of all we are not a one dimensional people, we have many dimensions and for every one of our “coon pictures” there are at least three decent black movies. Also look at all the “coon pictures” that are white movies; Caddyshack (the white version), Porkies, Duece Bigalow etc. Remember the Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy. When Amos and Andy (a black comedy) was put on tv black people protested and the show was taken off of the air resulting in more unemployed black actors. What one might call “coonish” another may call comedy. There weren’t Too many Sidney Poitiers’ back in the day. It is a wonderful thing that now we have Denzel, Blair, Larry, Wesley, Will etc as well as the Martins, Eddies, Chris’s, Daves etc. We are making progress however we have a long way to go.

  • Frank L.

    Just Sit And Be Pretty-

    Look here, honey. Frank L. is not confused. And my account is on point. Perhaps you get all YOUR news from CNN. But TMZ quoted this Tim Storey mutha fu*ka as sayin’ “…I know he’s not a racist. He’s been to black churches with me to help inner-city kids.”

    Nice touch with the ‘black churches and inner-city kids’. Amazing how Storey ‘knows he not a racist’, in spite of what came out of that mutha fu*ka’s own mouth. SMH

    Same sh*t with Imus and this Foster chick. Better pay attention…

  • Macho-in-Paris-France

    OK! IT SOUNDS LIKE MY PARENTS ARE RIGHT. WHEN BLACK PEOPLE WERE SLAVES (MOST BLACK AMERICANS), WHITE PEOPLE WERE VERY GENIUS IN THEIR STUFF. WHITE PEOPLE OR MASTER TOOK ONE BLACK MAN TO MISTHREATS OTHERS BLACK SLAVES. THAT MEAN CONTINUES TO DAY. NOW BLACK HUMOURISTS SINGING IN PRESS TO PROCLAM THAT IMUS A GOOD MAN. MONEY BUYS THE BRAIN. HERE IN FRANCE, A JOKE TELLS THAT IF YOU ARE BORN FROM A SLAVE PEOPLE YOU WILL CONTINUE HAVING A SLAVE MANNER IN YOUR LIVE. FOR ME MY FAMILY ARRIVED WITH THEIR MEANS IN EUROPE, NEVER A SLAVE IN MY FAMILY.

  • dani

    agree with nah nah

  • Astrid

    That broad is a sellout. Betcha she’ll be buying that new Nas album entitled N*gga!

  • Big Bubba

    All whites are evil!

  • On Point

    Ugh, all she is a female sambo, if her “massa” told her to jump she’d jump, If her “massa became sick” she’d be like “massa we’s sick?”.

    she is a dick rider for her w**** massa.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Frank L, by your excessive use of expletives, I can tell that your intellect is limited…AND the fact that you would so grossly disrespect a pastor speaks volumes about your character. Conversation over…

  • YUCK

    She’s nothing more than a token.

  • uMmm

    Ho

    Sit

    Down

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

    I don’t give two horse tails what she has to say..

    She and the other negro are SELL OUTS!!!!

  • Bronx Brawler

    Imus should’ve offered the new job to Just Sit and Be Pretty I don’t know if she’s a h*e, but she is NO doubt nappy headed.

  • Gina

    awww man ya’ll need to shut up and get a grip. MAAAN i was born with a lotto ticket being white! AHAHAHAAA

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    LOL Brawler from the boogie down…you got that right, nappy and lovin’ it!!

  • http://hershoeaddiction.blogspot.com erika-nicole

    Yeah, I heard about this. Don’t hate. A sista’s makin’ money. Whatever!

  • memchee

    couldn’t even read past the 2nd sentence. I think Imus’s black sidekicks show effort on his part, but I just don’t care for the guy.

  • Frank L.

    Now WHY you wanna start wit’ me?…

    The fact that you would overestimate a mans’ character JUST because he’s a pastor shows YOUR intellect is limited. Blinded by the light. SMH

    Tell it to all the little boys being molested by Catholic priests.

    The fact that you would underestimate a mans’ intellect JUST because he uses expletives further exemplifies that point(plus, how else do movie gangsters talk?).

    Maybe I’m just mutha fu*kin’ mad!

    Reverend Tim Storey is a Hollywood climber. Like Bishop Don Juan and others before him. Better pay attention.

    And NOW(regardless of your feeble retort), conversation over… :-)

  • Frank L.

    The above is for ‘Just Sit And Be Pretty’…

  • Dick Chestnut

    She looks like a cross between Richard Prior and Wanda Sykes.

  • Ned Flanders

    She looks like a Nappy Head Hoe…no Hoe-Mo(homo)

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