Jason Whitlock: What Don Imus Said Warrants Discussion, Imus Himself Doesn't

The whole Don Imus/Adam "Pacman" Jones uproar didn't last very long, did it? It was like one minute everyone was getting upset, and the next minute everyone was asking, "Why should we care what this guy says?" Even Al Sharpton seems to have moved on.

But Jason Whitlock has a column at FoxSports.com in which he argues that while we shouldn't care about Imus, it actually is worth addressing the point that Imus claimed he was trying to make in asking "What color" Jones is.


Whitlock writes:

My point is that what Imus said warrants discussion. We just don't need to discuss Imus. He is not our problem. Pacman Jones, with his off-field antics and stupidity, has done more damage to the image of American black men than Don Imus could ever hope to do.

I seriously doubt Imus actually cares about the high rates of arrest and incarceration of African-Americans in Jones' age group, but if there was any chance that the Imus brouhaha could have provoked an intelligent discussion of that issue, I'm sorry it disappeared so quickly.