I actually didn’t follow the Imus flap until it got so blown out of proportion. Yes, the remark was deplorable, but was Imus trying to be funny? Was he trying to imitate the hip hop slang or the rappers? I don’t know. But the some of the multi-culturist hate mongers want to have it both ways. They want us to recognize hip-hop as a productive culture, accept the hip-hop way of speaking as respectable and even teach the study of hip-hop in our colleges and universities (Duke even has a course in Hip-hop journalism and Hip-Hop Art), but don’t ever try to imitate it, unless you are Black.
They can’t have it both ways.
Why, of course they can. And have us pay for both those ways.