I'm not a fan of Don Imus. But I'm also not a fan of a societal structure where you can get a person fired because you can't take a joke. Americans have a shameful inability to make fun of themsevles and it disgusts me. And sadly, this has mostly to do with the minorities in the country. I'm a minority. One of the few minorities left in the country who don't have equal rights. I can take a joke! Go ahead and call me a queer, a faggot, a butt pirate, a wooly woofter. It doesn't matter, I have confindence. What I seem to lack though, is tolerance. There should be no room in this society for groups that are built off of hatred inspired by events that were over 100 years ago. There should be no ability to wage a lawsuit or cause controversy because a person exercizes their first amendment rights. Last I checked it was freedom of speech. Not freedom to sue. As a gay man, I'm personally insulted NOT by the people who make slanderous remarks towards me, but by the groups of selfish people who just want to demand more out of a soceity that already offers them too much. That's a broad category if you think about it. The upper class, those on welfare, those who aren't even citizens. They are always demanding more of something even when they are surviving on what they have. So I suppose I'll end this somewhat politcally charged blogs with one last statement. From one angry faggot, to a dozen nappy headed hoes : TAKE THE JOKE! |