Don Imus, it's your turn in the hot seat!

Here's the back-story.

Embattled Don Imus tells listeners, 'I am a good person'

NEW YORK (AP) — A contrite Don Imus described himself Monday as "a good person" who made a bad mistake by making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

Speaking on his radio show Monday morning, Imus said he was not trying to downplay what he called "the repulsiveness" of the remarks, in which he referred to the mostly black team as "nappy-headed hos." But he said it was important to understand the context of his comments.

"We were kidding around, but that doesn't change it. That doesn't make it any less repugnant," he said Monday.

"I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice," he said.

Imus said he hoped to meet the players and their parents and coaches, and he said he was grateful that he was scheduled to appear later Monday on a radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for Imus to be fired over the remarks.

"It's not going to be easy, but I'm not looking for it to be easy," Imus said.
Sharpton has said he wants Imus fired and that he intends to complain to the Federal Communications Commission about the matter.

"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."

Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for the broadcaster's resignation or firing.
Imus made the now infamous remark during his nationally syndicated radio show Wednesday.

The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and MSNBC.

"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ... ."
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.

"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
Imus also apologized on the air Friday, but his mea culpa has not quieted the uproar.

Jackson said his RainbowPUSH Coalition planned to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC. Jackson said protests were being planned across the country.

James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus "resign or be terminated immediately."

Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, said the network considers Imus' comments "deplorable" and is reviewing the matter.

Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio -- Imus' employer and the owner of his New York radio home, WFAN-AM -- said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."

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Now, Imus has since been suspended from broadcast for two weeks starting April 16. I heard that Rev. Al Sharpton was not convinced of Imus' apology and I don't blame him. I think it's too little too late. Those comments were no slip of the tongue, it was a drawn-out conversation. I've also heard Imus was on probation when he said these comments because he's done this before, many times. My opinion is that he's going to "shock-jock" himself out of a job soon. Imus is famous for hate-mongering, he never has anything nice to say. If he's supposed to be funny why am I not laughing?

Here are some more of my thoughts on this subject.

There are just some things that should not be said on a national media format. Sure you can say what you want but those same things should not be said in public. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but what is the limit. There are some things whites should not say about blacks and vice verse. There are some comments that are inappropriate and offensive to women and men. The nappy-headed comment is offensive to blacks and the ho comment is offensive to women. All ho is is a shortened form of whore. Common sense tells me to do unto others as I would have them do unto me, so I'm going to be respectful. I don't want to clutter my conscience with hatred toward fellow human beings. Sharpton has the right to ask or tell Imus what he wants. Doesn't he have the same right to freedom of speech that Imus has? So I ask again, what is going to be society's limit? I'm not singling Imus out, he's just the one who's in the hot seat right now. "Jokes" like that do not belong in a public forum like that. If society accepts these comments then what's next? Is it okay for me to call you a faggot or a spic? Can I just blurt out the comment that you're a toothless hick? No of course not because that's rude and disrespectful!