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Originally Posted by Platinum ChrisM
You forget that someone said 'Jiggaboo's and Wantabe's' directly after that comment. Its most likely that 2nd comment that brought it more attention, and since it's Imus, a celebrity (if you can call the fake cowboy that), its news worthy.
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Probably true - but the "Jigaboo and Wannabee" comment by Imus's producer was a direct reference to the sequence in Spike Lee's "School Daze" movie. It's OK for Spike Lee to do it, but not OK for someone else to make a reference to his movie? That one I don't get - I find that a lot less offensive than what Imus said. "Nappy headed hos" was a totally offensive thing to say, and was completely without any "appropriate context" to justify it. "Jigaboos and Wannabees" was a pop culture reference to a movie made by a black filmmaker, and I thought that, IN CONTEXT, it was rather clever.