Imus Will Rise Again – May Already Have!

Al Sharpton says the other shoe has dropped on Don Imus.  The shoe belongs to the liberal black activists in this country and it didn’t drop on Imus.  It dropped on CBS and MSNBC.

Within weeks Don Imus will sign a multimillion dollar contract with Sirrius or XM, leaving CBS to figure out how it will recoup the ad revenue from its capitulation to the latest extortion effort by Sharpton and Associates.  The only viewers who ever watched MSNBC were the few thousand generated by the simulcast of Imus in the Morning. MSNBCs capitulation to the whining of the liberal black activists is a nail in their own coffin, driving them further down the ratings ladder.

CBS and MSNBC didn’t fire Imus because of what he said. MSNBC repeated the phrase three times in a four paragraph article; if “nappy headed hos” is such a slur (and it is), why are they so freely repeating it?  The firing of Don Imus also wasn’t on moral grounds; if that were the case he would have been gone at the first commercial break after he spoke the reprehensible words. And Imus certainly wasn’t fired because he injured the Rutgers Women’s basketball team.  Are you forgetting they lost the NCAA final?  The way things normally play out, the losing team walks off the court into oblivion. In this case, can you even name the women’s team that won the championship game Rutgers lost? Yet it’s the losers who are paraded out on Oprah for their 15 minutes of fame.  We wouldn’t even be talking about the Rutgers women if Imus hadn’t spoken the unspeakable. Other than their feelings being hurt, what real injury have they suffered? 

Don Imus was fired because of the extortion pressure put on advertisers by Sharpton and Company.  Imus will move over to Sirrius within a month where the listener pays for the content – and will gladly pay to hear Imus in the Morning – no matter how loudly the loud mouth hypocrites on the Left attempt to plug their ears. 

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Paul is the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of God and Culture in Detroit, Michigan and Founding and Teaching Pastor at Redeemer Church of Waterford, Michigan.

7 thoughts on “Imus Will Rise Again – May Already Have!

  1. Angie,
    Wonderful! One final thought and I will feel free to move on from here to other great topics, I have many “black” friends and have attained this perspective from these relationships. Most of the black community will agree that these Imus remarks, or any similar to them, are better left unspoken, however when a black person makes them they are perceived in a different light than when a white person makes them. Your moment of sharing illustrates the pain you had to over come as I assume many in the African American community have had to do likewise. I hope that your openness has shed a light on the different prisms we all view life through. Most of us white folk are unable to relate to your prism, for we have never experienced that pain. There was a talented black woman who was a regular on the Day of Discovery singers, [back when they had singers], who sang a great contemporary song, [ did you see that Ben?] with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir titled “The Friend of A Wounded Heart”, the message in this gift from the author, if taken and applied, could be enough to mend this great divide. With this being said, you and I have a job to do, “crown Him with many crowns “, lets get about the Master”s business!

  2. Hi Don, yes, please don’t get me wrong, I do love and respect Paul Edwards as my brother in Christ and great minister of God and I do know he has a very heavy responsibility on his shoulders in the form of his calling. Even though I disagree with him on that issue, I absolutely agree that his first love is Christ and his motivation is pure.

    I would love to sit with you at the marriage supper if God wills it, or even before so if God wills that too! 🙂 May God bless you.

    Yours in Christ,
    Angie

  3. Angie,

    I speak from my heart. When I complimented your upbringing I had already assumed your conversion. No one can maintain such grace in conversation without the influence of the Holy Spirit. This is evident in your delivery. “Isn’t
    the love of Jesus something wonderful”! “But the Lord said unto Samuel, look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; For the Lord seeth not as a man seeth; For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart” I Samuel 16:17 What an indictment for a soul to have the Lord say “I have refused him” If it is allowed, when the trumpet sounds, and you and I are transformed, in a “twinkling of an eye”, my I sit with you at the marriage supper? I have said enough on the Don Imus situation, I would rather talk about Jesus, and Him crucified! Now about my dear friend Paul. I served with him about twenty years ago. I loved and respected him then, and my respect has only grown for him now. He loves God, the people of God, and the church of God. “The half has not been told”. I expect to see him at the front of the line, casting his crowns at the feet of our Savior. He has sacrificed more than most servants have ever been required to, just to serve our Jesus. Please love him as I do, respect him as I do, and rejoice that he loves the same Lord of Lords and King of Kings as we do. He has a difficult calling in a sin wrenched world. This of coarse, because of the transformation that took place at an old alter of faith, where Christ became the object of his adoration and love. In response to the other Sivyer”s. I don’t know, but if their names are in the Lambs Book of Life, I am. I may not get to see you this side of heaven, but I shall see you in the great up-calling.

  4. By the way, Don, are you related to any Sivyers that work at Franklin Road Christian School? My daughter goes there.

  5. I thank you very much, Don, for those kind words, they mean a lot to me. Your entire post was very beautiful. I’m grateful to the Lord if I was able to touch someone in a positive way. I can’t really give my upbringing the credit for my disposition on this matter, it is due only to the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

    I was born and raised in Detroit, and spent my entire K-12 education in the Detroit Public School system during the 80s and early 90s. Although I was raised with a Christian background, I can’t really say that I accepted Christ for myself until WAY after I became an adult. At that point I knew who I was and Whose I was, and things like that became very trivial. Up until that point, though, I very much did have an issue with my dark skin and kinky hair, or rather, how I was treated because of it. During my life I have been on the receiving end of comments like Don Imus’ time and time again. What’s more tragic is that the comments mostly did come from people of my own race. America’s general standard of beauty did not apply to people like me, and folks made sure they let me know it. Another (related) very painful event happened in my life to further crush my self-esteem which I don’t think I’ll go into here, only God and the folks who know me personally know this, but suffice it to say that I more than identify with the hurt feelings of the young ladies on the Rutgers team. So I could only say “Wow” and lay my head on my desk as Paul persisted that the ladies were not scarred by the comments and that they actually even benefitted from the comments. It further cemented my opinion that he is very out of reach from the amount of pain and the history of comments like that in my culture. And it’s not just the 3 words that Imus used that were insulting, it was the entire exchange that hammered the idea that dark-skinned, kinky-headed women are hideous and less worthy.

    To say that national attention and fame should make up for the hateful remarks, to me, is like saying a million dollar settlement in a wrongful death case makes up for the loss of a loved one. Sure you benefit from it on a pretty good level, but it does NOT take away the damage that has been caused, and should not be dismissed as such.

    That all being said, I once again want to emphasize that revenge doesn’t drive my opinion that Don Imus should have been fired. I simply want Don Imus to be provoked to good works in the form of his bad attitude toward women and minorities. If he had’ve kept his job, he would have thought that the things that he said and the way that he thinks are okay — and in turn, SO WOULD MANY OTHERS. That action did deserve that consequence. Whether Al Sharpton brought it to national attention is a moot point. I can’t understand the opinion that the entire issue should be dismissed because Al Sharpton brought it to light. Even if only ONE person listened to his show, the supporting companies should have taken a stand and fired him for that. Yes it’s too bad that it took Al Sharpton’s whining to get them to actually do it, but then again, it took somebody’s whining, and national attention, to get somebody to see that the treatment of Rosa Parks was wrong too, didn’t it? And it MADE A DIFFERENCE.

    Anyway, I think I’ll finally get off my soapbox on this. In the end, just like I figured, Don Imus is still going to be employed. I really do hope that he will change his attitude. Thanks Don, for bringing scripture to make your points. God’s Word should be the final authority for all of us on this or any other matter. Psalm 12 and James 3 are also some good ones.

    Angie – Farmington Hills

  6. Paul, and my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,
    I have been contemplating responding to this for several days and have decided to lay out what is on my heart. Firstly, Angie from Farmington Hills, understanding from whence your position originates causes me to tell you this; I believe you to be a precious stone, a jewel in your community. How you have come through so unscathed, with such a sweet disposition, is a testament to your upbringing. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he shall not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
    Now to the rest of us, I love and want to protect our First Amendment rights as much as the rest of you. This is more than a case of free speech, however, this is a case of decency and Christian prinicipal. I know of no one condoning what Don Imus said, and rightly so, but I have to ask what is the Christian community doing even listing to Don Imus in the first place? It was not too long ago that our godly pastors were warning us of the evils of TV itself, let alone its programing.
    Whether or not we feel that Don Imus has the right to speak his mind with all His filt, and disrespect does not affect our freedom and liberties we have through Christ our Lord. If we are bondsmen, are we still not free? There is a far higher principal at stake here than what is on the surface. The Word of God has many references that restrict our speech. We are told, “For it is a shame to speak of those things which are done of them in secret”. Eph. 5:12 and “The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. Proverbs 10:32 Should I list more, or is this sufficant? I’am fearful we as Christians have become so desensitized to foul language, lude actions,and ungodly behavior, that it does not even prick our hearts to hear it any more. People of God, I speak this to my shame also, for I have fallen in life low enough to taste the dirt and have been raised back up to smell the sweetness of Gods forgivness. There is a great gulf afixed between the two. Whom is it that we serve? Whom is it that loved us, and forgave us, and washed us, and santified us, and gave us our joint-heirmanship? “And if we children, then heirs; heirs of God,and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together”. Romans 8:17 Where should our priorities be? Should we be rejoicing over a worldly victory at the cost of diminishing
    our clear command to touch not the unclean thing? We walk a tightrope here. Is it wrong to protect those freedoms we feel were granted to us by God?, no, but is it right to have an appearance of allignment with someone who has the walk and talk of Don Imus, and now perhaps Howard Stern? We have come a long way baby! Paul, you have the medium, the opportunity, and the influence to make a difference. Just as when AV said you were wise beyond your years in your twenties, you are still wise beyond your years in your forties. Help us to seek first the kingdom of God, and then these other lesser matters. It is of far greater importance that on the third day Jesus rose again, than if Don Imus ever regains a prominent position in our society. The next great “rising” will have nothing to do with the Sirrius or XM systems, but everything to do with the One with whom we have to do. “Come up hither”!!!!!!!! I love you my brother, and friend, it is my prayer and desire that you receive this in that spirit. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are decietful”.

    Tis the grandest theme thru the ages rung;
    Tis the grandest theme for a mortal tonuge;
    Tis the grandest theme that the world e’er sung,
    Our God is able to deliver thee.

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