I have F-Bombs and Dan to thank for cluing me in (interesting how I'm learning about the "news" from bloggers now).If you're clueless like me, here's the 411: Don Imus is in Dutch with the Blacks because he referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos". Offended Blacks and the PC Police want him fired for using the racial slur "nappy".
The aforementioned F-Bombs points out that even black people are racists when they use the term "nappy".
Dan throws in with Jason (half)Whitlock who notes that this is much ado about not very much and that "the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show."
That's a good point, and one that I've tried to make before.
Personally, I wonder why there is so much fury over Imus' use of the term "nappy," but nobody really cares that he called the women "hoes"?
tagged: Imus, race, culture, black, ho, Rutgers, Whitlock
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