Racism In The National Media

Racism against African Americans showed clearly in the national media back in 2007 when nationally famous radio host Don Imus made derogatory remarks towards the Rutgers University basketball team after the team lost the NCAA Championship game against Tennessee.  Imus used remarks like "nappy-headed hos", and was just in general being negative about the eight african american players and the team.  The next day, he was fired.  Eventually he got employed at another radio station, and had the Rutgers head coach at the time appear on the show and apologized to them, but besides the matter that he tried to make things right again doesn't give him reason in the first place for saying what he did in the first place.  This comes to show that the issue of racism is still something that is taken seriously, and people still get very offensive towards negative comments like the one Imus said.