![]() ou always say, 'Oh yeah, I'm going to be the runner,' then you never show up.” According to a November 20, 2001, Newsday article, Rosenberg said on the air: “One time, a friend, he says to me, 'Listen, one of these days you're gonna see Venus and Serena Williams in Playboy.' I said, 'You've got a better shot at National Geographic.' ” Rosenberg also referred to Venus Williams as an “animal.” Media Matters for America noted those comments when Rosenberg alluded to them on the March 28 edition of Imus.Īlso, on the March 30 edition of Public Broadcasting Service's The Charlie Rose Show, regarding the NCAA “March Madness” basketball tournament, host Charlie Rose asked CBS sportscaster Billy Packer: “Do you need a runner this Final Four? Because I could jump on a plane and I could be there.” Packer replied: “You always fag out on that one for me. Rosenberg's comparison of the Rutgers women's basketball team to the Raptors recalled comments he made in June 2001 about Venus and Serena Williams, two African-American female professional tennis players. The college's women divided into two camps, the dark “Jigaboos” and the fair “Wannabees,” who taunted each other in one scene with the epithets “pickaninny,” “Barbie doll,” “tar baby” and “high-yellow heifer.” “School Daze,” his 1988 satire on an all-black college similar to his own alma mater, Morehouse, turned the friction centered on color into a pointed burlesque. In a June 2, 1991, review of Lee's Jungle Fever (Universal Pictures), The New York Times described the rivalry depicted in School Daze: The Wannabees - that movie that he had.” McGuirk was presumably referring to Lee's 1988 film, School Daze (Sony Pictures), though co-host Charles McCord misidentified it as " Do the Right Thing" (Criterion, June 1989). McGuirk referred to the NCAA women's basketball championship game between Rutgers and Tennessee as a “Spike Lee thing,” adding, “The Jigaboos vs. ![]() On the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, host Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team, which is comprised of eight African-American and two white players, as “nappy-headed hos” immediately after the show's executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, called the team “hard-core hos.” Later, former Imus sports announcer Sid Rosenberg, who was filling in for sportscaster Chris Carlin, said: “The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors.”
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