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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Sharpton: Imus must go
WASHIGTON (CNN) -- Civil Rights Activist Rev. Al Sharpton renewed his calls Monday night for popular radio talk-show host Don Imus to resign following his controversial comments about the Rutgers womens basketball team.
"There's no way the airwaves should be used to allow people to call people 'nappy-headed hos.'" Sharpton told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "That's what he called these people. And, for him to say that, and just to walk away like, 'I'm just sorry; I made a mistake,' would then mean that the FCC, who regulates everything on the airwaves, and who sanctioned people -- as far as Janet Jackson with a wardrobe malfunction -- has no purpose at all." |
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