National Association of Black Journalists: Putting Don Imus back on the air is "inconceivable"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Black Journalists Group: Keep Imus Off The Air

By E&P Staff

Published: October 09, 2007 2:00 PM ET



CHICAGO Weighing in again on the Don Imus controversy, the National Association of Black Journalists Tuesday said the radio personality who outraged many with his comments about "nappy-headed ho's" should not be allowed back on the air.

NABJ called reports that Imus is in negotiations with Citadel Broadcasting and in informal talks with Fox News "unimaginable."

"It seems inconceivable that less than a year after Imus was dismissed from CBS Radio and MSNBC for his vicious insults upon the Rutgers women's basketball team, that Citadel Broadcasting and Fox News would consider putting him back on the air," Ernie Suggs, NABJ's vice president of print said in a statement. Suggs is an enterprise reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Imus was fired in April after referring to players on the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed ho's." He "used his free speech to broadcast hate speech," and allowing him to return to broadcasting now "makes light of his serious and offensive racial remarks that are still ringing in the ears of people all over this country," NABJ President Barbara Ciara, the managing editor and an anchor at WTKR-TV News in Norfolk, Va.

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[Bitwit1234]

1. I think these people have no real guts if they wanted to go after

someone why don't they go after rush. I guess they only go after the people low on the totem pole they think they can flush, they never tackle a big problem.

[EFerrari]

3. Have they never gone after Rush? I hope you have some information

upon which you base your insult.

[ladjf]

2. No, because a large chunk of Americans are just as bigoted

and crude as he is. He's their guy.

[TygrBright]

4. Sorry, guys... 'I do not think that word means what you think it means...' n/t