Warning - Please be advised the following Commentary contains citations of sexually explicit profanity. -ed

When Don Imus referred to a Black women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos" he was using a description ("hos") that Black rappers have popularized on CBS sister stations.

CBS is owned by Viacom, http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/viacom.a... which also owns MTV and VHS. These stations are responsible for making this expression part of the national vocabulary.

Viacom also owns "Famous Music," which publishes and markets the work of hip-hop and rap artists who portray Black women as "bitches" and "hoes." A cursory search

yielded this couplet from Rapper "Cadillac Tah":

Bitches come, bitches go But little do they know we don't love them ho's ("Come and Go")

So, Imus is double victimized by CBS's owners. First they popularize a derogatory attitude and expression, and then they fire him for using it.

The expression is so common that Imus' sidekick actually introduced it into the conversation:

"Imus: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and -

McGuirk: Some hard-core hos.

Imus: That's some nappy-headed hos there. I'm gonna tell you that now, man, that's some - woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like - kinda like - I don't know."