User talk:LedFloyd

Free Speech
I know this won't be on here long, because it doesn't agree with many. What happened to FREE SPEECH? People should be able to say what they believe. Why is it OK to be walking down the street with your 10 year old daughter, and hear blasting from a passing car, this RAP CRAP that they call music, the N word, F word, HO's, BITCHES, and anything else they choose. When a white person does the same thing, he should be fired. Don't Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson have anything better to do than run to every talk show on the air..The only time you see them on TV is when they're protesting something. What about this girl claiming rape against the 3 college kids? She's not even being charged with anything. I don't hear Sharpton yelling about her. I'd like to fire him. GALP

If Sid Rosenberg made those comments, why would the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission accuse Imus of violating anything?

--LedFloyd 05:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Are you implying his legal rights are being violated? How so?


 * There is no clause in the constitution protecting people from the consequences of their speech. Free speech only protects people from judicial punishment. If somebody says something other people don't like, others are completely free to speak out against that person, boycott listening to that person, or refrain from giving the person money. Thats all that has been done in this case.


 * He said something that made apparent a underlying racist attitude. Thankfully we live in a culture that is sensitive to that sort of thing. Would you rather live in a culture where racism is accepted and not taboo? (Note: thats different from asking would you want to live in a culure where racism is illegal. Nobody wants to make racism illegal.)


 * People listening to rap has nothign to do with this. You can refrain from giving rap artists money, advertisers can refrain from sponsoring rappers, and you can speak out against rappers. Actually, Al Sharpton and many people in the black community do speak out against rap artists for their offensive lyrics (including the use of the n word and denigration of women and self-denigration of African-Americans). Apparently you didn't know that? No major African-American leader I know of condones that sort of offensive rap music, and most do speak out against it. But unfortunately there is too much of a market for that speaking out to make a difference. Fortunately there is not a large enough market for idiotic shock jocks for Imus's carreer to survive. Is that really a bad thing? Is it a bad thing that racism is taboo? (not illegal, but taboo...there is a difference) Brentt 05:36, 12 April 2007 (UTC)