I can’t tell you what it is about some folks that makes them comfortable disrespecting black people. Perhaps, they feel that they are too rich/powerful to be touched. Perhaps, they are just plain hateful. Or, in some cases, it’s a combination of both.

Don Imus is the reason why I don’t buy into the belief that Democrats can’t be racists. I have heard clips of him saying things that have gotten my temperature to rise but, this has gone way too far.

On his morning show yesterday, Imus referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy headed hos.” Imus went on to draw a contrast with the Tennessee women’s team (predominately white) by referring to them and saying “The girls from Tennessee — they all looked cute.”.

Not to be left out of the conversation, the show’s producer,Bernard McGuirk, went on to call the Rutgers team some “hard-core hos” and referred to the Rutgers/Tennessee matchup as “The Jigaboos vs. The Wannabees” (an apparent reference to Spike Lee’s movie, School Daze). McGuirk has been known to make other racist comments such as saying, “One time, a friend, he says to me, ‘Listen, one of these days you’re gonna see Venus and Serena Williams in Playboy.’ I said, ‘You’ve got a better shot at National Geographic.’ ” Rosenberg also referred to Venus Williams as an “animal.”

What is so striking is the casual way in which they refer to black women as “hos” and use the word “jigaboo” so freely, as if it’s part of their normal vocabulary (hmm…).

Below is a video clip of the segment.

 

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