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Old 04-06-2007, 08:35 AM
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Anyone can be nappy-headed, but jigaboo is strictly a slur against black people...I think that crew on the Imus show must not get out into the world of diversity very much to know better than to say that kind of thing.

Not to bring up the other side of the coin for balance, because I think it's over the line to use that kind of slur the guy from the Imus show used...but I hear white folks, asians and hispanics getting insulted and put down every day on Tom Joyner's show and nobody complains about it. I wonder if it's because there's no single word they're using that's such an awful slur that incites anger and outrage such as the 'n' word.

My opinion on why these radio/TV hosts say the things that they do is so biased from the average American's because I work in that same field, but allegedly it's for humorous/shock value and not a core value of the private citizen who is a public personality on the radio/TV. At least I really hope it's not a core value.
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