Racially Charged Comments

What can you say about Don Imus and his comment? How about stupid, stupid, stupid. He is so stupid to think that his comments about the Rutgers women would not be viewed as racially charged. "Nappy Haired Ho's" is what he called them. I wonder how he would like to be called "a pasty white cracker"? Watching the team press conference I was glad to hear the coach question what Americans think is a joke and what constitutes a problem in the bigger picture of life. Have we become so desensitized that we can be quick to forgive and forget when we are singled out solely based on our race? Has the dream died where we can be judged for the content of our character and not for the color of our skins? I believe Don Imus should indeed be fired. With over forty years of radio experience, he should have known better than to utter any racially disparaging words to the public. Joke or no joke...i'm certainly not laughing. I hate the fact that the first thing people want to say is that black people use the "N" word all the time and say negative racially charged words all the time. I don't think that's appropriate either regardless of the context. There can be no "reclaiming" of a negative word. Negative is negative no matter who's saying it. The sad reality is that Imus will more than likely keep his job. Just like previous radio and t.v. personalities, this too will pass. I wonder if anybody would let Obama get away with saying that Bush and his family are a "bunch of cowboy hat wearing ignorant hillbillies". What do you think?