Shaq gets kicked off the police force for a rap, Imus is in hot water again for racial comments

MITCHELL BLATT

Why don’t I care about sports? Because it’s not fun. You can’t rap to Kobe about how your ass tastes without getting your ceremonial sherif’s badge taken away. That’s right, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio revoked Shaq’s badge for the rap.

He said, “Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they’re fired. I don’t condone this type of racial conduct.”

Right, but Shaq is a basketball player, and he’s not even a real member of the force. Let’s keep this controversy about the n word, used by Shaq in the following phrase, “That’s like a white boy being more n*gger than me,” out of sports. He was just having fun as he has done in the past on multiple occasions.

Next, Don Imus. Luckily, Media Matters kept their mouths shut about this one. In one of his classic racist comments that most people didn’t care about until the Rutgers comments, Imus responded “Well there you go,” after being told that Pacman Jones was black. This was certainly not as bad as what he said about Rutgers.

Now that’s debatable, I guess. When he attacked Rutgers, he made comments about specific people and didn’t invoke race. Here, he makes a racist comment about an entire race.

On the other hand, Pacman Jones himself is actually a bad person, compared to the Rutgers players who did nothing wrong. Also, this comment was more innocent in that it can be construed as more of a wry joke.

Either way, Imus has made a career out of offended people of all races with his “jokes,” so it’s kind of stupid to attack him for everything he says now, when no one cared at all what he said before Rutgers. There were comments about his Jewish management who were “beanie wearing, money grubbing bastards,” a black secretary he liked to call “N*gger, N*gger,” Bill Rhoden, a “quota hire,” and tennis player Amelie Mauresmo, a “big old lesbo.”

Now I’m supposed to be outraged when he attack Pacman Jones?

His apology, however, was classic:

“What people should be outraged about is that they arrest blacks for no reason. I mean, there’s no reason to arrest this kid six times. Maybe he did something once, but everyone does something once.”

Dude, I’m not even going to respond to that one.

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