Despite the concerns that I raised in a previous post, Don Imus got himself fired from his long time gig as New York radio provocateur. Imus levelled a racially and sexually charged slur against a Rutgers Women’s team. Sharpton and Jackson led the charge (as they always are wont to do) and Imus went from apology, to suspension, to advertisers bailing out to canned. There should be consequences for your actions and Imus’ firing is about the right consequence. I do lament the slow demise of humor, in poor taste, or not. I guess what is sticking in my craw is the righteous, selectiveindignation that Sharpton and Jackson seem to espouse. If you are white and lob a slur, you’re a villain, but if you’re black and do the same thing, you get a free pass (witness modern music). I do not buy into the whole “we’ve earned the right to denigrate ourselves” argument. It’s either wrong, and everyone who uses it is wrong, or it’s not.