NY-based WFAN radio host Don Imus is no stranger to controversy. But the latest saga brings up the very real question of whether he’s crossed the fine line between acceptable entertainment and flat-out racism. Imus recently referred to the mostly-black Rutger’s women’s college basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.” Whoa! Well, amidst a storm of backlash including protests from Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Imus quickly backpedaled, saying: “I’ve learned that you can’t make fun of everybody, because some people don’t deserve it.” That’s very big of you, Don, but it might be too little too late.

Sharpton, Jackson, and others have called for Imus to be fired, with Reverend Al saying, “Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media… We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and acting like it never happened. Somewhere we’ve got to stop this.”

Imus tried to defend himself by stating: “I’m not a bad person. I’m a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice.”

Is this an apology that can be accepted, or has Don Imus finally gone too far?

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