Don Imus was fired today. Thank God.
What he did on the radio was reprehensible. Calling the Rutgers basketball team "nappy-headed hos" is being racist. It's not a racist remark, it's not invoking racism -- it is racist. It's stupid.
I've never cared for Imus, and have purposely avoided his show because I think he talks over his guests, and doesn't allow them to make their arguments. And he has interesting guests!
You've all heard re-broadcasts of his comments. He wasn't being flippant. This didn't slip out. He was being mean and nasty. It was an intentional act of racism.
What I don't like in how this played out was how he was fired days after the fact. He's being fired because of the controversy his comments raised. He's not being fired for being racist. He should've been fired 20 minutes after he said it, not days later because people who were upset are getting louder.
Do the right thing.
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