Adrienne's Current Event

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/media/10cnd-imus.html?hp

In April of 2007, Don Imus, an American radio host was fired from his talk show, Imus In The Morning, for making derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. On his show the previous week Imus had referred to the team as, “nappy-headed hos” while talking with Bernard McGuirk, his producer, about the team's recent loss. The Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer requested a meeting with Imus so that the girls could discuss the matter with him. Stringer called Imus's comments "racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable and unconscionable."
“It’s not about them as black or nappy-headed,” Ms. Stringer said about her players, eight of whom are African-American. “It’s about us as a people. When there is not equality for all, or when there has been denied equality for one, there has been denied equality for all.”
The article goes on to quote some of the girls as saying that they regret the fact that during this time when their victories and hard work and perseverance as a team and as women should be celebrated, instead their accomplishments are being forgotten and overshadowed by hatred that they thought had been surpassed years ago. Before he was let go, Mr Imus continued to go on other radio talk shows apologizing and explaining that he had made these comments, which the team found degrading, solely in comedic context.

As people, and Americans, and women, and African-Americans etc..., what is our responsibility in these sorts of situations where our regression as a socially-conscious nation is more obvious?