By By now, you all know what Don Imus said.
The real question is why this dinosaur still has his job.
People have been fired for saying things that were less racist and less offensive.
I can remember back to Jimmy the Greek, who made a statement about slaves and was fired from his job at CBS.
If any one of us that used those words to describe the Rutgers women's' basketball team we would be out of a job.
There are no excuses for what Imus said. There are no apologies that will make this better.
I cannot believe that in 2007 we are still fighting the same battles we were in the 1960s. Have we learned anything from our mistakes?
Apparently not!
Things like this sicken me. Too many good people gave their lives to create equality in this country.
But as many of us know, there is no true equality.
Be it racial equality or class equality. The divide between the haves and have-nots is still there and at times I believe it is growing.
People want to defend Don Imus by saying that he is a "shock jock." If he is a "shock jock," then I am a slim man with a full head of hair.
Neither is true if you know the both of us.
People want to defend him by standing behind the United States Constitution and the First Amendment.
Again, there is no excuse for this. Free speech is one thing, taking a cheap shot at someone with a racial slur is another thing all together.
Not to mention, that the Rutgers basketball team did nothing to deserve this. No one deserves this.
I watched the final few games that Rutgers played in the NCAA tournament and I grew to like their team.
This was a team of hard working young women that were overcoming great odds to come within a game of winning a national championship.
The Rutgers women's' basketball team should have brought great pride to the east coast. They gave that area of the country an underdog to root for against the great tradition of Tennessee.
Instead, a radio jock that should have hung up his headphones years ago slams them.
It's time to pull the plug on Don Imus. His sponsors should be wearing out the telephones at MSNBC calling for his head.
The network needs to do the right thing here and get rid of him.
Other broadcast networks have had to make choices like this and they have chosen to cut their person loose.
Let's hope justice prevails here and we no longer have to listen to Don Imus spew out his garbage.