The road to Good Intentions is paved with Hell.

The "good" news is, there's a segment of black women out there that don't mind being referred to as "nappy-headed hoes" and receiving compensation for it. So much for activists and community leaders telling us when, where and how to be offended.

Over the past couple of weeks dos muy interesantes pieces of information surfaced that, if you acknowledge gray areas like I do, should knock down that steel resolve when it comes to matters of conduct and context. And here I am thinking I had it all figured out.

Here is where things get a little dicey:

[Attorney Martin] Garbus cited a contract clause where CBS acknowledged that Imus’ services were “unique, extraordinary, irreverent, intellectual, topical, controversial.” The clause said Imus’s programming was “desired by company and … consistent with company rules and policy,” said Garbus, whose clients have run from comic Lenny Bruce to filmmaker Spike Lee. - Hollywood Today

No worries, I'll ask it before you put it in the comments: "Does 'controversial' mean sexist and racist?"

Why yes. Yes it does. What better way to court controversy than by targeting a specific group with nasty epithets? Anything aside from that wouldn't have given Imus enough room to adhere to the contract's terms. They essentially gave him the freedom to be an asshole and paid him for it. I'd kill for a job like that. I'm tired of being an asshole for free. Wait, no I'm not.

CBS says they fired Imus for cause, citing he violated relevant terms in the contract. The language used there is as follows:

[Artist could be fired] if any on-air use by Artist of any distasteful or offensive words or phrases, the broadcast of which Company believes would not be in the public interest...

Basically the contract should've read:

Court cases make our executive dicks so hard that we willingly loaded this contract with conflicting arbitrary language that is bound to result in certain public, lube-free assfucking.

Imus has also, in the past, referred to black PBS anchor Gwen Ifill (who then worked at NYT) as a "cleaning woman". But that didn't bother The Angry Blacks because don't nobody betta say nothin' bad about college basketball! And yes, "cleaning woman" is far more offensive when directed at a black woman because it's directly linked to the institution of black slavery and the historical, insidous beliefs of bigots; whereas "nappy-headed hoes", when uttered by anyone, is just really some fucked up shit to say.

Add to all of this the fact that Imus probably wasn't given proper warning and I have to ask: Do you think he should've been fired specifically for this incident? Although I still think it's pretty cool that he got his ass handed to him, I'm leaning towards "no".

And while The King of Black People Al Sharpton was marching for decency, this turned up:

According to published accounts, Sharpton publicly bashed former NYC Mayor David Dinkins as "a n----r whore," and once referred to his political opponents as "recycled white trash." Sharpton has also never publicly renounced his 1991 inflammatory public remarks against "diamond merchants" -- after which a Harlem mob singled out a random 29-year-old Jewish rabbinical student -- and stabbed him to death.

TMZ shitted for that. Someone's petty and clearly has it out for Al, but fair is fair. I knew there was a reason I was on the fence about this guy.

Glass houses, my friend. Glass houses. Is it too late to de-throne him?