Tuesday, April 10, 2007

NEW YORK - Radio host Don Imus, suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers female basketball players "nappy-headed hos," called the punishment appropriate Tuesday but stressed, "I am not a racist."
The radio host tried to shift some of the focus from himself, saying, "that phrase originated in the black community. ... I may be a white man, but I know that these young women and young black women all through that society are demeaned and degraded by their own black men and that they are called that name."

Question for anyone out there reading this…why is it that everyone around him or her can condemn a white man for using the word “nigger” for example, yet when a black man uses the same word, no one takes notice?