I've known about the Don Imus show for several years, and I've never listened to it much before. It comes on, and I turn the radio to a different station. That's my choice.

It's also CBS and NBC's choice to fire him if they don't like his show or in this case to avoid the embarrassment from one of his comments. While I'm not sure why calling somebody a “nappy haired hos” is so offensive, it seems that they felt it was a good reason to get rid of him.

So be it. As some of the commentators said Don Imus show was getting old, and wasn't making the money that it once was for the network. Why should these major networks go out and stick up for somebody that wasn't serving their purpose? His remarks were patently offensive to at least some viewers, and the management of these stations decided he was a greater liability then a benefit.

Don Imus isn't going to be stuck out on the street. He has made an awful lot of money in the past, and is good shape for retirement or picking up a show on another network. Rumors are already flying around about him picking up a show on satellite radio. That's good for him and it's good for the networks who felt that he was providing more trouble then he was worth.

I don't really know what a “nappy haired ho” really is, although reading the dictionary suggests that happy-hair is short curly hair like black people, and a ho is somebody who is promiscuous. So for at least some people, he was saying that blacks like this team get it on the court like they get on in sex. I didn't see the game or know anything about it, but maybe that's how it really happened.

The reality is his remarks were just words. They didn't damage the black cause any more then it currently exists. If anything they reflect our uncomfortable relationship with race in this country—we have a problem accepting that we treat blacks like second class citizens and force most of them to live in ghettos—but we sure don't want to say that in public.

While I respect CBS and NBC for making it's their own business decisions on Imus, I still think this was very petty. It also puts a real chill on the open and colorful discussion of the issues of the day on commercial radio.