[pourbill]

Getting back to Don Imus, he has always been a jerk. On the other hand I thought his comment was about actions and self determined appearance. I contrasted the Rutger's five that were mostly in the game with three black commentators on Meet the Press yesterday. These three (2 men and a woman) were well groomed in professional buisness dress. The future doctors and lawyers on the Rutgers team were some of the roughest and unsportsmanlike players since the infamous Minnesota team. They were tatooed and scruffy looking and I am sure it was an intentional "look" similar to the "gangsta" look of the hardest hardcore rappers. They were not trying to look like future doctors and lawyers (and I'll take your bets that not one of the starting five ever becomes a doctor or lawyer). In short, they looked like a bunch of n_____, h_____, h__. I won't deny the racist overtones of the comment, but it was a fairly accurate discription, in the Black venaculare, of what one saw, and the tough image that THEY intended to project.