Will Imus be Fired for Racist Slurs?

I would be a bit surprised if Don Imus somehow retains his job after calling the Rutger’s Women’s NCAA Basketball team “Nappy Headed Ho’s” and “Jigaboos.” 

From WNBC here:

On his “Imus In The Morning” show Thursday, he referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.”

He was talking to Sid Rosenberg with Sports Talk on the phone about the Women’s NCAA Championship game.
 
Imus started out talking about the Rutgers team as, “some rough girls from Rutgers. They got tattoos,” and then went on to call them “some nappy-headed hos.”

He compared them to the Tennessee team, saying “The girls from Tennessee — they all looked cute.”  The conversation then went on to compare the game to “the jigaboos versus the wannabes.”

Imus has no ratings on the radio, and has even less on MSNBC.  If it weren’t for the Internet, no one may have even known about this.  And how old school do you have to get to pull out the word “Jigaboo?”  Is that a slur from the roarin’ 20’s?