Oh Lord, Here We Go

It's funny. I had just hung up the phone with a friend discussing racism, my last blog post and the FX series Black/White when I ran across this article. For as much as people claim they want Condoleeza Rice to run for President (and that is only because they are so sure Hillary is running), I think that a whole host of people like this man would come out of the woodwork if she really were to run. Republican or not, Condoleeza is a black woman in America and folks like this still run rampant and reign supreme in many parts of the country.

A St. Louis radio station wasted no time firing a talk show host for using a racial epithet to describe Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his morning show Wednesday.

KTRS president and general manager Tim Dorsey came on the air to announce the firing shortly after talk show host Dave Lenihan used the word 'coon,' a racial slur, instead of 'coup' in describing her attributes for the post of NFL commissioner.

Dorsey and Lenihan both called the use of the word a 'slip of the tongue,' but Dorsey said the utterance was nonetheless 'unacceptable, reprehensible and unforgivable.'

Prior to the utterance, Lenihan was heaping praise on Rice, a big football fan, who has frequently said she aspires to run the league one day. But as recently as Wednesday, Rice ruled out applying for the job of NFL commissioner after Paul Tagliabue retires.

After taking several calls from listeners, Lenihan offered this on the air:

'She's been chancellor of Stanford. She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that.

'I didn't mean that. It was just a slip of the tongue. She's definitely got all the attributes to be commissioner. I'm really sorry about that.'

A slip of the tongue means that you were thinking it and would have said it off of the air. Personally, I don't care what people say in the comfort of their own homes. I've worked with some true racists in my day. All I've ever requested is that they leave the sheet and hood in the car before they step into work because if I even see you changing out of it in the bathroom, we're going to have problems.