Why Do We Use The Word "Ho"?

Mr. Don Imus, the famous radio host, is fighting back although that is not the reason I am writing here today. I listened to the news reports of the events of the day he made his racial remarks on the air to the Rutgers University women's basketball team and what amazes me isn't the fact they were upset by his racial remarks that should have been bleeped out anyway. No, what amazes me is they were not upset with his co host for calling them "hos" in the first place. What kind of a society are we living in when it is okay to walk around and call young women these names as if they were a term of endearment! Hello, people! It is time to wake up and teach our sons and daughters to not only have respect for themselves but to have respect for others. Did Mr. Imus make a mistake when he blurted out his so called racial slur? Yes, he did. But what he said on the radio was a lot nicer than most of the songs written in today's culture and that's a sad state of affairs. What he said was a lot nicer than the language we hear walking down the streets but it doesn't make it right. I am not saying that. CBS had the power to block his words and they did not. Yes, Mr. Imus was wrong but some where along the line CBS has to be help responsible for Mr. Imus. After all they have a delay button they can push. The rest of the world falls on the responsibilities of the adults in charge.

I raised three children and I am proud to say they did not raise me. When I told my children to do something and to listen to what I said it was done and they listened. Oh I will not say they hopped to it, they still do not. If we are offended by the way people talk in this world about our children and grandchildren then we need to teach our children and grandchildren to proud of who they are and where they come from. I did not have a fortune growing up and neither did my children. They knew what it was like to struggle in life and that is not a bad thing. As a matter of fact it builds character to not have everything handed to you and to have to work for it. It should make you want to do better for yourself the way your parents want you to do better then they did in life. Yet, in today's society, it is not like that. People stand around and demean one another as if it is the right thing to do. Young men talk to young women as if they have no brains at all and the young women are less then they are and we, the parents, allow it. Not in my house! We have older people walking around as if they are still 16 years old and trying desperately to act as if they can keep up with their children and grandchildren in their every day lives and activities, even in the way they dress. Open your eyes people the world is the way it is because we are allowing it to be.

If I had a daughter on that Rutgers University Basketball team I would not be up in arms only because Mr. Imus made a racial slur. No, my big thing, bigger then my daughter being called "nappy head" is the fact that not one but both hosts called my daughter and every other daughter on that team a "ho". Oh yes, the racial factor does come into play but only after the fact that someone on the radio just called my "little girl" an extremely offensive name for all to hear. My fight would not just be with Mr. Imus and his Co host but it would also be with CBS because they do have the power and the ability to block it with their delay button. If they did not feel the need to have to do something like that at any time during one of Mr. Imus' interviews then why did they allow such a delay button to be used on his show. That three second delay was supposed to give the censors a chance to block it out but instead they allowed it go through. Every one is wrong here, the radio announcers for saying it in the first place, CBS for not blocking them, the team and their parents for only getting upset about part of it. Mr. Imus is a scapegoat because people started yelling racial discrimination but in actuality it was not just racial, it went beyond that. If Mr. Imus was fired for what he said then his co host should have been fired for what he said as well because when I was growing up and even when I raised my children a few short years ago, the word "ho", was not a term of endearment. After all we all know what the term "ho" really stands for and that is "whore" and in my book I don't see it where that is a compliment to any one's daughter.