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NEW YORK (UPI) -- Shock jock Don Imus sought Monday to clarify a
racial remark he made about Adam "Pacman" Jones of the Dallas Cowboys,
an African-American.
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.