Don Imus created bona fide racial drama last week with his trademark attempt at shock-jock humor. But the bad news is that – though painfully serious – this whole episode has degenerated into a cartoonish (political) farce featuring Al Sharpton.
Meanwhile, does it matter to anyone that those Pontius-Pilates at NBC and CBS were so eager to wash their hands of this racial mess that they deemed it more important to give Rev Sharpton his pound of flesh than to accord the women of Rutgers the respect and satisfaction of meeting with Imus – when the outcome of that meeting still held some public interest and consequence?
It was clearly politically correct to fire Imus. But it was not the morally-correct thing to do. Nor, more significantly, will it do anything to advance the cause of racial understanding and reconciliation in America.
Indeed, when the hysteria, histrionics and scapegoating are all played out, I’m afraid we’ll look back on this as a missed opportunity for Imus to lead the millions of unreformed racists who listened to his show everyday in a national confessional about race. And, I hope the (instructive) cartoon makes clear that blacks have many sins to confess as well.
But, given this Imus precedent: Who’s next?…Who knows? I just know that even George Orwell could not have foreseen the Big-Brother lunacy Al Sharpton has wrought….
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