…here is Black Agenda Report’s Richard Muhammad

Enabling Imus

American Life - Racism & White Privilege
Wednesday, 11 April 2007

by Richard Muhammad

In a horrific display of racist solidarity, white media men have circled their wagons around Don Imus, the career broadcast bigot who called the Rutgers women’s basketball team a bunch of “nappy headed hos.” All is forgiven, because “Imus is us,” say his defensemen. And they are right: Imus is them, irredeemably racist children of white privilege who believe their casual slandering of other races and genders are of no more concern than getting drunk at a frat party. The most important element of the tale is not Imus’ putrid outbursts, but the reflexive defense of him by his co-racists, who have “outed” themselves in the process. FULL

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