{"id":3295,"date":"2007-04-07T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T01:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/07\/nappy-headed-hos\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T01:14:34","slug":"nappy-headed-hos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Nappy Headed Hos&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a quote from Don Imus.\u00a0 Because he felt the women of the Rutger&#8217;s University basketball team were not sufficiently feminine, he felt it was ok to call them nappy headed hos.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/arizona-basketball.aolsportsblog.com\/2007\/04\/06\/whos-worse-don-imus-or-billy-packer\/\">This site has<\/a> the actualy clip of Imus and his sidekick making racist and sexist remarks (For good measure the site\u00a0also has\u00a0edited in a\u00a0clip of Billy Packer saying &#8220;fag.&#8221;).\u00a0 The national Association of Black Journalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabj.org\/newsroom\/news_releases\/story\/53027p-81729c.html\">called for an apology<\/a> from Imus.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200704060003?f=i_related\">Imus subsequently issued an apology,<\/a>\u00a0but is that enough?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thequakeragitator.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/dear-msnbc-its-time-to-fire-don-imus.html\">Quaker Dave<\/a>\u00a0is calling for Imus to be ousted from\u00a0MSNBC.\u00a0 He also has the\u00a0contact information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200704040011\">Media Matters<\/a> on the comments by Imus and his partners Sid Rosenberg and Bernard McGuirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a quote from Don Imus.\u00a0 Because he felt the women of the Rutger&#8217;s University basketball team were not sufficiently feminine, he felt it was ok to call them nappy headed hos.\u00a0 This site has the actualy clip of Imus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,62,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}