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This is the most reasoned opinion piece I've read
Let's take the power away from blowhards by ignoring them. Sports teams shouldn't let any trash talk (and that's what I think Imus was intending, no matter how stupid he was to do it) get to them. If you listen closely to the comment, Imus was riffing off what one of his idiotic lackeys said.
Laughter takes the power away. The Ku Klux Klan is dangerous and evil, but they are especially ridiculous and laughing at them defeats their cultural power.
As a side note, it's interesting that everyone in the media has focused on the "nappy headed ho" part of his comments, but not what I think is the even more offensive "jigaboo" reference. Wonder why that is? Is is that people have a knee jerk response and stop listening?