Don Imus Fired, Sharpton probably still not happy.

Here we go again. Don Imus mouthed off by calling the women of the Rutger's basketball team a bunch of "nappy-headed ho's". Self-serving racists and bigots like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson jumped on the fire-Imus bandwagon. First, MSNBC, with threats of boycotts and several sponsors that jumped ship, dropped Imus from their lineup, right in the middle of the week that Imus was using as his annual children's cancer fundraiser.

Then, with continued pressure from the African-American community, those including Al Roker and former NAACP head, Bruce Gordon, additional sponsors cancelled advertising contracts with fears of their attachment to the "racist" event. CBS Radio felt it had no choice but to fire Imus.

So where does this leave us? CNN columnist Roland S. Martin is telling us that the white people cannot use the black rap artists continued flogging of women and hatred of white people as an example of a double-standard. He said,

• "Don't try to make this whole matter about the ridiculous rants made by rappers"

Snoop Dogg went even further. He may have been on one of his drunken, pot-smoking rants, but that certainly didn't excuse Mel Gibson. Snoop said,

• "It's a completely different scenario. [Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about hos that's in the 'hood that ain't doing (bleep), that's trying to get a (bleep) for his money. These are two separate things.
• First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them (bleepers) say we in the same league as him."

I never knew he was so eloquent. However, to the point, I never liked Snoop Dogg. Nor did I like Imus. What did I do about it? I didn't listen to either one of them. To me, both are jerks. That's enough for me. Now it appears that both are racists. Are they comparable? Sure they are. Both of them are sending messages that it is okay to say disparaging things about other people, mainly people of a different race.

Unless the African-American and the white community can agree that all bigoted attacks are wrong, including the ones from Don Imus, Chappellel, Michael Richardson, Jesse Jackson, Mel Gibson, Al Sharpton, rap artists like Snoop Dogg, etc.., then they themselves are fanning the flames of racism and hatred. It's human nature to stick up for your own and when one of your own takes a beating, you're going to stick up for that person that is getting the beating if the punishment goes too far. We as a society need to either accept free speech, regardless of how hateful it may be, or apply the politically correct standards to everyone, regardless of what makes them different. One-sided political correctness will only fuel further hatred.