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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=martygjf@comcast.net href="mailto:martygjf@comcast.net">Marty Nathan</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=letters@msnbc.com
href="mailto:letters@msnbc.com">letters@msnbc.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 08, 2007 1:33 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> To the Editor</DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>April 8, 2007</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>I demand the immediate firing of Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk from MSNBC
and WFAN-AM and the cancellation of Imus in the Morning by WFAN-AM and
MSNBC.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">The words used by Imus and McGuirk were not just painful
insults to young women who have worked their lives to become the best in their
sport. They contain the combined racist and sexist attitudes that formed the
ideology underlying forced labor, rape and murder of African American women as
slaves and then under Jim Crow throughout most of the history of this country.
That brutality has been justified by white men denying personhood and womanhood
to black women. “Ho’s” are Black women objectified, chattel, owned and abused by
men. And according to Imus, “nappy-headed” women who accept and like their
African hair, are an inferior subset, reflecting his and a racist society’s
rejection of anything African as beautiful.<SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Imus’ comments are vicious and debilitating not just to those wonderful
young <st1:place w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place> women whose accomplishments
should be and are celebrated by people around the world. They hurt all women and
all non-“white” people. They are an offense and embarrassment to me as a white
woman, sharing the same skin color as this arrogant troglodyte.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Enough is enough. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>1. Imus and McGuirk must be fired without further ado. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>2. MSNBC and WFAN should carry out serious institutional-based
investigations into the kind of attitudes that allowed this to happen and then
did not lead to <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">immediate </I>firing.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>3. Restitution should be made to the women of <st1:place
w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:place> and other Black women’s institutions. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Arial size=2>I
expect a response.</FONT></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Sincerely,</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Martha A. Nathan MD</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:City w:st="on">Northampton</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></FONT></FONT></st1:place></P>
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