Now I'm not a Don Imus fan and I don't condone what he said.
At all. I'm wondering, though, if all of the fallout is necessary. I don't believe Imus made a racist comment. I believe Imus tried to make a joke. Michael Richards he is not. Michael Richards yelled 'the' slur to a group of black hecklers. Imus made a dumb joke.
What's interesting to me is that I hear Boston police officers say more offensive things everyday when I walk through Downtown Crossing. Should they be fired? Should they apologize to everyone? Some of the officers are black and some of them are white. Where does this witchhunt end? I mean police officers are supposed to serve and protect. Imus was merely supposed to entertain. (I said supposed to - I didn't say he was entertaining - so if you're going to fire him, fire him for sucking) If police officers can get away with worse language than Imus, how can Imus be justifiably fired? I hate Don Imus, but I think an apology was a sufficient penance. Three athletes from Duke were falsely accused of RAPE and were scrutinized and judged and tormented for months until they were acquitted. All they got was an apology. The DA didn't get fired - all he had to do was apologize (and he didn't even HAVE to). However, those athletes lives will never be the same. (they're still jarheaded lacrosse playing douchebags though) What Don Imus needs is an agreeable black cohost to absorb the racism accusations a la Howard Stern with Robin Quivers. Then, he can also get little people drunk and encourage callers to taunt them with threats of violence...but that's another story.

I guess my big concern is that people of more importance and higher status than Imus speak much more ill toward other races, creeds and sexual preferences. In addition, there are blacks who call themselves 'hos' and 'n-words', gays that call themselves 'fags' and zero white people who call themselves 'crackers'. I heard a black man call a bunch of white people "n-words". If a self proclaimed smaht kid like me is confused by this slang - I can't imagine what someone who doesn't know what self proclaimed means is thinking. I say everyone should get punished for using racially based words or no one does. I know the power and the hate behind slurs and I think that unless you can prove someone used a word maliciously, you don't have a case. Since that is often impossible (not in Kramer's case - gideeyup); it should be all or no one. Also, white people should begin to use the term cracker as frequently as possible to stir the pot even more.

In summary, there are a lot of ignorant people out there - Imus being one of them.
Ignorant people say ignorant things no matter what side of the slur they fall on.
If every ignorant person lost their job for the ignorant things they said, who'd serve my French fries? That's right...Don Imus would serve my French fries...my stinky, arrogant, beret wearing French fries. Sorry, I'm using a stereotypewriter.


SARCASTIC DISCLAIMER
Dana's girlfriend is Jewish and his childhood pet was a black lab so he's definitely not racist.