Should Imus get another chance?

| August 15, 2007 - 8:43 am

Tags: Imus, media, racism, Rutgers, sexism, talk radio, women and media

During the Don Imus debacle when the talk radio shock jock referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy headed ho's" among other racist and sexist appellations, I wrote the following:

"This is a Moment with a capital "M".

The opportunity for fundamental social change doesn't come often, so let's take full advantage of it.

Shock jock Don Imus's racist and sexist remarks didn't go beyond his typical bottom feeder discourse, but in this age of YouTube and internet rapid response capability, his sleazy pot shots against a target so clearly undeserving of epithets