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Imus explains controversial remark
While discussing Jones's desire to ditch his nickname, he was told Jones has "been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005."
Imus asked one of his on-air sidekicks, "What color is he?"
"He's African-American," the co-star said.
"Well, there you go," Politico quoted Imus as saying. "Now we know."
Asked in an e-mail message what he had intended by his remark, Imus wrote that he meant Jones "was being picked on because he's black," The New York Times reported.
Imus said black comedian and activist Dick Gregory would be a guest on his show Tuesday, to discuss the death of George Carlin.
"We'll see what he thinks (of the Jones remark)," Imus wrote to the Times. "I mean ... come on!"
Imus lost his CBS radio show and MSNBC simulcast last year after he made racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. He issued a public apology to the team and the African-American community, and was hired by another network a few months later.
Imus' "Imus in the Morning" show is distributed by ABC Radio Networks and simulcast in video on RFD-TV.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/24/2008
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Posted Comments:
06-26-2008 12:39
crystal wrote:
Don Imus
I am black. I think it is possible that Don Imus' explanation is legitimate. Howerver, considering what he has been through, I think he should just stay silent when it comes to issues concerning someones race. Especially if the person in question is black.
06-26-2008 04:37
doris52 wrote:
Imus
This is just getting ridiculous that the man can't open his mouth without being accused of being racist. I am not predjudice. I lived in the same neighborhood with blacks, went to school with them, and have black friends. This racist thing has gone a little too far. Now, what about when we get called white trash? Is this not racist? Or "Whitey", among other names.
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