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A lot of points have been made here about Imus, his history of helping kids, his rejection of Cheney and Bush, his celebration of black empowerment and personalities.
That's good stuff.
But his words, directed at some young women who had just barely missed winning the whole enchilada in the NCAA Tournament, were so awful and wrong! Why the hell did he say that about them? What the hell had they ever done to deserve that kind of sleazy, nasty, rotten, abuse?
That's what gets me.
What Imus said about those young women was about as horrible, in context, as a person could conceivably come up with. These women weren't posers, weren't Al Sharpton, weren't cashing in or doing anything but what they loved. They were good students at a good university who had almost accomplished something magical.
And Imus and his buddy trashed them in the lowest, nastiest, terms possible. Casually, and brutally. For no conceivable purpose except envy and bigotry.
I can't forgive that. I don't care what good Imus has done in other areas. It's over.
Good riddance.
