AVoiceOfReason

I've thought about this situation a bit last night, and came to a conclusion that I've not thought all the way to the end yet, so I'll toss it up like a "jump ball" here.

Suppose Imus had not used "nappy haired" but instead had said "That's a rough looking bunch of hos." I think he would have been able to fade the heat a bit more, because "hos" and "bitches" is more generic and not racially specific. He could have claimed he was riffing off a rap lyric, or thought such was now acceptable, at least to young women, due to cultural changes. But by interjecting the hair, he crossed a racial line.

Ann Coulter observed in her column:

"If Imus had called me a "towheaded ho" or Al Sharpton a "nappy-headed ho," it would be what's known as "funny." (And if he called Anna Nicole Smith a "flaxen-headed ho," it would be "absolutely accurate.") But he attacked the looks and morals of utterly innocent women, who had done nothing to inject themselves into public debate."

But it wasn't all the team that he attacked--it was the black members and as such, he injected race into a situation where it was irrelevent.

Kind of like Imus.

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