Is the firing of Don Imus some form of civil rights victory? Not to me. Seems like the opposite. You must have listened to a few channels of Radio lately. Every DJ it seems tries there hand at being a 'shock jock'. A lot of it disgusts me, mostly it is just so lame and stupid and seems everyone revels in making fun of everyone else.     Super stupid kind of riffing thats the norm.       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaftrHk0e1c&mode=related&search=    I don't think I ever heard Imus. I think he thought he was just being cool and a little edgy and yes it is super disrespectful and he could indeed be a stupid old white man with racially prejudiced views. He wouldn't be alone in that regard.    More 'shock jocks' will fill his absence to talk trash about someone. Right now it seems to be the style. There is such a rich vein to turn your scorn towards... Environmentalists and their ilk, stoned Hippies, the Jews, the Arabs, evil fundamentalists, White hypocrite racists. Republicans. Liberals. Who do you hate? Who do you fear? Good entertaining Radio. Speak with an air of absolute certainty about someone or group you don't know in a disparaging way.     DJ's You can't fire them all. Can we start lightening this show up a bit? Down at Peri's a brilliant Black female musician does about once a year her 'Pimp and Ho' night. Everyone is supposed to dress up like one or the other. It's a tongue in cheek commentary, maybe it's a little naughty. Are we going to have to accept that people find humor in all kinds of ways. Turn it off if you don't like it. Obviously Imus went too far the results are in and he is out.   Maybe he'll get a satellite job.    The women from Rutgers accepted his apology.    How do you get the people of the world to Respect you.?    The world wants to go to a higher place. Bigger than our race, our ancestry... somehow fundamentally see me as a Human. Let's keep our humor. There is too much sensitivity... over sensitivity and still we need to get to a place of seeing each other as humans first. I think we are doing that on a big scale in the USA and in the world though we have probably an ages long journey ahead to get to that very cool place.     In the mean time will have to live with idiots on this Planet.         Guy W. Meyer, Jr.                   April 14, 2007         San Anselmo, California               guy@lifesignsphoto.com