Ok, just want to be clear on this. I'm actually not easily offended, but it's good to know the rules of any game if you want to play.
1) Don Imus refers to a group of young African-American women as "nappy-headed hoes" and he is fired.
2) Jay Leno tells Ryan Phillipe to give the camera "his gayest look" on The Tonight Show. Jay is also host to Halle Berry in October of '07, who refers to a distorted photo of herself with a large nose as looking "like my Jewish cousin."
So if Don Imus had asked Jay Leno to give him his "blackest voice" on-air, that would have been ok? You can ask someone to make a stereotypical gesture, you just can't make fun of it afterwards? I'm so confused!
It's all so absurd, but if you can't get away with insulting one group, why is it acceptable to insult others? Why isn't Al Sharpton telling Jay, it's time for him to say goodnight?
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