He was actually referencing
School Days in which Spike Lee ripped the veil off colorism (and many other issues) in the black community. The referenced scene in particular shows the "fight" (I use the term loosely because its a dance number set to music) between the dark skinned ladies with naturally kinky, coily (read nappy) hair and the lighter ladies
(many of who were of mixed race) with chemically relaxed or naturally straight hair. The "Jigaboos" were arguably considered to be "ugly" and the lighter skinned women were "pretty," but called "Wannabees" as an insult, because they arguably "wanted to be white."
The Spike Lee/Wannabee/Jiggaboo commentary between Imus and the producer which followed the "hard core hoes [and] nappy headed hoes" comments essentially underscored that the duo's previous statements that the Tennessee team (which had more white women) were pretty and dainty, while the Rutgers team (predominately black) were unattractive, "hard core," Jiggaboos.
ETA insert "nappy" and make plain the hair difference and why, although many AfAms don't find the word "nappy" on its face to be negative (this one included), its not a far stretch to argue that it can be so made negative when used in a demeaning way because it has been before.
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Originally Posted by macallan25
They (him and Sid Rosenberg) were talking about the Tennessee vs. Rutgers women's basketball Final.
Imus: That's some rough girls from Rutgers...man....they got tattoos and....
Rosenberg:....some hardcore hoes....
Imus...haha...some nappy headed hoes there, haha, i'm tellin' ya......and uhhh....the girls from Tennessee....they all looked cute ya know?
Then they talked about how it was a Spike Lee type thing, the Jigaboos vs. the Wannabees. I think he was referencing Do The Right Thing. Then Rosenberg said that the women looked more like the Toronto Raptors or something like that.
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