Imus hints career may be headed south, nappy time

I don’t know if this will be my last radiothon, my suspicion is it will be. – Imus

April 12, 2007

By MATTHEW ROBINSON
Reuters

NEW YORK – Radio host Don Imus hinted on Thursday his days on the airwaves may be numbered after a 30-year career that erupted in controversy over racist and sexist comments about a women’s college basketball team.

MSNBC dumped its simultaneous cable television broadcast of his “Imus in the Morning” radio show on Wednesday, and several major advertisers have backed out a week after he called the mostly black Rutgers University team “nappy-headed hos.”

The word “nappy” is viewed as a vile slur describing the tightly curled natural hair texture of many African-Americans, while “ho” is slang for “whore,” usage of which has exploded in hip-hop music and popular culture in recent years.

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