In a letter to Rutgers University President Richard McCormack Tuesday, embattled shock jock Don Imus offered to fund a $25,000 a year scholarship as a way of apologizing for his “insensitive remarks.”
A partial text of the letter reads:
“I made a woefully inappropriate and derogatory statement toward your excellent girls basketball team. From the bottom of my heart I apologize. I understand those coloreds have genetically nappy hair, and their higher genetic sex drive does not make them ‘hos’ it simply means they enjoy life more.”
“That is why I am offering this scholarship—to allow more coloreds the opportunity to rise above their race and become more like white people.”
Imus suggested the name of the scholarship be: “The No Mo Nappy Ho Imus Scholarship”
In a related story Russell Simmons, Snoop Dogg and Sean John “Diddy” Combs have all agreed the negative stereotyping of black women as “bitches and hos” should end, so they will no longer use those terms in their own music or any music they produce.
April 11, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Ah, satire in its purest form. Good job. Now people will call for your firing since you repeated the offensive phrase.
April 15, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Totally unrelated (Although I did enjoy this little piece):
Your Christian Quote on the main page made my morning. You will burn in hell! Ha! Me too, I suppose. Good thing Jesus loves me anyways.
April 15, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I’m still a little amazed to see “Imus” and “Endowed” (or a variation) in the same sentence, considering he’s such a whiney little bi…. errr, I digress.
April 24, 2007 at 1:20 pm
OMG, this is so hilarious.
April 24, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Tip of the Mitre to Simmons–today the news said he was actually going to stop using the negative stereotypes. We’ll see what happens.