| Well, it took about ten days, but finally the phrase "nappy headed hos" is funny and a viable punch line.On April 4 Don Imus mumbled the phrase when speaking about the Rutgers Women's Basketball team. It was over in about 1.1 seconds and then the sound of his garbled, old-man voice muttering those words disappeared into the atmosphere where now, going by the speed of sound, those words are approximately 293,760,000 million miles away--or 3 times the distance that exists between between the Earth and Sun.But as Hans Solo and C3PO are just now hearing Imus say "nappy headed hos" in a galaxy far, far away, we've heard it about thousand additional times. We've heard Matt Lauer say it and we've heard Al Sharpton say it. We've heard our local news anchors say it and we've heard the deli guy say it. Its been said for 10 days at water coolers all across the country. We've heard white people say it and we've heard black people say it and now we may hear someone in the Dagobah system... |
