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Why Imus Won't Go
Members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, NAACP, the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable and the National Youth Advocacy Coalition were among the many groups demanding the ouster of radio jock Don Imus for his comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball players. But New America Media editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson says despite the protests and apologies, shock jocks like Don Imus thrive because there is too much money in race trash talk and the political leaders tacitly condone it.
LOS ANGELES - The reaction was swift and justifiably angry to the latest racist crack from shock jock Don Imus that the Rutgers women’s basketball players were “nappy headed ‘hos’” (an even more curious characterization given Imus’s trademark floppy mop). Imus didn’t step over the line of racial incorrectness, he obliterated it.
He straddled the repentance line with his kind of, sort of, apology in which he did not say “I,” only “we.” The careful phrasing turned the “apology” into generic pabulum and was tantamount to personal absolution.
But even if Imus had made a sincere, bare-the-chest, heartfelt apology it wouldn’t amount to much. That’s the standard ploy that shock jocks, GOP big wigs, and assorted public personalities employ when they get caught with their racial pants down. On a few occasions, the offenders have been reprimanded, suspended, and even dumped. However, that’s rare. Imus has been syndicated on dozens of stations for more than a decade by MSNBC. Though the network gently distanced itself from Imus, it won’t likely show him the broadcast door.
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He straddled the repentance line with his kind of, sort of, apology in which he did not say “I,” only “we.” The careful phrasing turned the “apology” into generic pabulum and was tantamount to personal absolution.
But even if Imus had made a sincere, bare-the-chest, heartfelt apology it wouldn’t amount to much. That’s the standard ploy that shock jocks, GOP big wigs, and assorted public personalities employ when they get caught with their racial pants down. On a few occasions, the offenders have been reprimanded, suspended, and even dumped. However, that’s rare. Imus has been syndicated on dozens of stations for more than a decade by MSNBC. Though the network gently distanced itself from Imus, it won’t likely show him the broadcast door.
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http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=0865674481a24f3429b26906247389bf
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