Ifill backslaps Imus
Gwen Ifill in my opinion is the leading Black journalist in the country. She weighs in on Imus. It seems that Imus has a long history of slurring Black people. Imus probably shouldn’t be on a national radio show. We shouldn’t have national figures spewing degrading speech on a daily basis. —– From NYT: … Why do my journalistic colleagues appear on Mr. Imus’s program? That’s for them to defend, and others to argue about. I certainly don’t know any black journalists who will. To his credit, Mr. Imus told the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday he realizes that, this time,