I haven't watched Imus for more than three years, but he is hardly a racist. Before that I watched him religiously for five years. I quit watching him when he started to stab Bush in the back after originally supporting him.
Imus was an equal opportunity offender more than anything. He liked some Black people, and he hated some others. He made fun of them. He liked some White people, and he hated others. And he made fun of them. Over the years he had a large number of Black performers, politicians, and activists on his program. Racists don't do those sorts of things. He made a stupid offhand comment concerning some female basketball players to get a cheap laugh, and he lost his program for it. That's all.
I do not dismiss your post as I believe it has lot of truth in it.
However, to lack simple common sense and say the things he said, it seems to me that if you don’t have a little voice in back of your head that says “racism alert”, then you are in-fact unable to see that you have horrible and racist opinion.
There is nothing wrong with those girls and they represent best in the society and most girls can benefit from their example (tattoos or no tattoos).
To view them in the light he did is disgusting, shameful and in my opinion racist.