"Nappy headed hos"

This is an old post from my now-defunct Myspace blog. I'm going to post some of the older postings in reverse chronological order to put a little meat on the bones of this puppy.

Originally posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007.

So MSNBC dropped Imus after his comments that the Rutgers women's basketball team was a bunch of "nappy headed hos." Sponsors were pulling their advertisements left and right. The president of NBC goes on CNN and says that it wasn't worth losing the station's "reputation" by retaining Imus. Apparently Imus also works with CBS, and as someone on Anderson Cooper 360 noted, CBS owns Interscope Records--a label replete with gangsta rap, which, of course, is all about puppy dogs and sunshine and rainbows. Double standard? Nah... it's OK when it's gangsta rap because it's "cultural"... or something.

Obviously, Imus said something stupid. One might even argue that as a radio show host he has a greater moral responsibility to watch his words. OK, fine. But tonight an angry commentator on CNN said we need to have a "zero tolerance" policy for such words. And I wish I would have been in the studio to slap him silly. Zero tolerance? For words? Really? How about a zero tolerance policy for all the criminals out there? "Nappy headed hos" isn't even the worst words I can think of. If we're going to fire people over three little words, how about imposing the death sentence on the next guy in Detroit who steals a pack of gum? After all, zero tolerance, right? Get a grip, nutbags. Maybe if you spent 1/10th as much time worrying about fixing crime as you did about people with potty mouths, we'd be able walk without fear on our streets. (For those of you not in Columbus, this week a girl was abducted at knife-point and raped... two blocks from my apartment. Last week a Wendys was robbed and the manager was knifed... a few blocks north of me. Between March 23rd and March 28th, no less than six forceful robberies were committed in the campus area.)

The only thing worse than the fact that morons are making this a bigger deal than it ought to be is that the media keeps covering it because racist and sexist issues are the new pink. Honestly, people, we have a stem cell research bill that passed the Senate this week. We have dozens more dying in Iraq. We have an interesting French presidential election where a woman might be elected for the first time. We have 16" of snow in Cleveland! Can we get off "nappy headed hos" already? Because I just got off one. Boy-yah!