Don Imus Calls Black B-Ball Players "Nappy Headed Hos": This Guy Should Look in the Mirror Before Criticizing Anybody Else's Hair

Did you hear the latest example of Don Imus' utter lack of social graces? First the dude wears a cowboy hat around like he's freaking John Wayne-or, I guess Gene Wilder from Blazing Saddles would be more appropriate-and then he somehow manages to wrangle a job on talk radio despite being less coherent than Mushmouth from the old Fat Albert cartoon. Now Don Imus has the gall or balls or gumption or stupidity to refer to African-African members of a college basketball teams as "nappy headed hos" on air. Since the only people who actually listen to Don Imus are NASCAR-watching, beer-swilling, gun-totin', Bush-voting walking lobotomy patients, I can only assume that he thought nobody with more than half a brain left in his head would hear this terminology and be offended.

Most definitions of "nappy" that I have found agree that the term is used almost exclusively to describe hair that tightly coiled or curled and unkempt. Almost undoubtedly that does describe some of the black girls on that team. It is beyond a shadow of a doubt, however, that nappy headed describes Don Imus to a tee. I mean, just look at the guy. Talk about your irony, or your potbelly calling the kettle black. Don Imus' hair almost makes that fright wig that Phil Spector wore in court last year look dainty. Yeah, that nappy haired ho Don Imus has some kind of nerve insulting someone based on their hair. It would be the same kind of deal if I took some guy to task for having a big nose.