Get Off Imus' Junk

While I completely understand that what Don Imus said about the Rutgers women's basketball team was offensive and inappropriate (I'm from Jersey and no one gets away with insulting any aspect of Rutgers), last time I checked, we still had the Freedom of Speech protected under the 1st Amendment. In a time when our civil rights are being limited or taken away everyday, the freedom to say as we wish should be defended to the upmost. Furthermore, who really cares what old, wrinkly Don Imus has to say? How many people actually listen to his radio show or watch his television simulcast? Al Sharpton gets all upset about this, yet there are more black men in prison and on probation than in college. In my opinion, that is a far bigger racial issue than two sentences uttered stupidly by Don Imus. Although he offended many, no one has the right not to be offended (if you can find that section in the Constitution, please feel free to show it to me).

My advice is to take a cue from Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. When they Birmingham Bus Company was not allowing black riders nor hiring black drivers, they organized a boycott and stopped riding the bus. If you don't like Don Imus, don't listen to him. But to call for a man's firing because he said something racist and sexist is as un-American as soccer. If an old man is alone in the forest and drops the N bomb, does anyone really care? Stop the coverage ESPN, I want to see hockey highlights. There are far more important problems in the world (that thing in Iraq, global warming, increasing energy prices, the pitiful state of American education) than wrinkly, old Don Imus.