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It is Not About the Game:

Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender

And Sexuality in Contemporary Media

Introduction

Now days slang words are very common in our language, and unfortunately it has become fashion. If you listen any hip-hop songs, so you can easily listen that there is an aggregation of slang word such as Rape and Bitch .These words are commonly listening on street, radio or TV. Our culture has totally changed; we are living in hip hop and jazz culture. Our culture has trapped into many dangerous diseases, and slang language is only the symptom of these diseases. If we do not think about that situation, it can cause a massive disaster in the future.

Sex and race discrimination is a controversial issue. If you see past year, so you can analyze that it is an old issue and still it has exist in our society and culture. Many law and constitution have made, but it cannot resolve this issue because thinking has not changed, it same as past.

Background

On April 4, 2007, radio personality and “shock jock,” Don Imus, true to form, Shocked and riveted media audiences with universally-denounced racial epithets directed at the Rutgers University women's basketball team (Fountain, p.6).

Don Imus used of the phrase “nappy headed hos” exposed a particular racist fantasy (shared by his producer) that continues to shape constructions of Black identity generally and Black femininity in particular (Fountain, p.3).

Discussion

Rutgers women's basketball controversy

On Tuesday, April 3, 2007, the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights women's basketball team squared off in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) championship game against a perennial powerhouse, the University of Tennessee Volunteers (Awkward, p.100). The following day, in a dialogue on Imus in the Morning, Don Imus, long-time radio talk show host referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as “nappy headed hos” (Fountain, p.9). He said that they are “Rough Girls” commented in their tattoos. At that time his producer replied they are “hardcore hos” Later that day, Media Matters for America, an independent media watchdog group, posted the transcript on their website, flagging the commentary due to the blatant racism "and sexism in the dialogue (“Imus called women's basketball team 'nappy headed hos,' ” accessed October 16, 2007). After that, he tried to rationalized his statement by giving this statement “nappy headed hos” are rap artists, and they are African-American women(Brummett, p.12).

Race Discrimination

Black leaders or groups were over 6 times ...