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{"source_url": "https://www.newsweek.com", "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/rutgers-womens-basketball-coach-sends-condolences-don-imus-family-1479973?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution", "title": "Rutgers Women's Basketball Coach Sends Condolences to Don Imus' Family", "top_image": "https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1557023/c-vivian-stringer.jpg", "meta_img": "https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1557023/c-vivian-stringer.jpg", "images": ["https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1557023/c-vivian-stringer.jpg"], "movies": [], "text": "C. Vivian Stringer, who coaches Rutgers University's women's basketball team, sent condolences to radio host Don Imus' family on Tuesday in the wake of his December 27 death of complications from lung disease.\n\nImus had referred to members of the women's team by using a racial slur during a 2007 episode of his radio program. His comments had come in the wake of Rutgers' Scarlet Knights having lost an NCAA championship game to Nashville's Lady Volunteers.\n\nStringer acknowledged the controversy in her prepared comments to the press. \"The Rutgers family has found peace through the years, and we are proud of our response to the hateful words that he had years ago. As African-American women, we don't feel that we should be treated \u2015 or anyone else should be treated \u2015 like that. We are proud of the positive change it has brought about and the lesson that came with it \u2014 women and African Americans should be treated with respect, not only in the media, but in all walks of life. It is our prayer that Don finds eternal peace in his passing and we wish his family strength.\n\n\"He genuinely felt, I think, remorse for the words he said. Everybody makes mistakes and says things that they shouldn't say. I think that our players learned a lot from that, and I'm proud of them and our basketball team,\" Stringer continued.\n\nShe also said that she had not thought of Imus' comments in years, but that \"to say that it didn't hurt is not true.\"\n\nStringer admitted the controversy was permanently a part of her legacy as a Rutgers coach.\n\n\"I'm tied to that now. No getting around that. It is what it is. Proud of the way the team responded. Proud of the support we got from so many fans and people. Proud of the fact we stood up for what's right. All our players learned a really good lesson,\" she said.\n\nShe expressed forgiveness for his statements and turned an eye toward the future. \"We accept it, and we move forward.\"\n\nAt the time, Imus had reacted to the controversy by saying \"what I did was make a stupid, idiotic mistake in a comedy context,\" according to The New York Times.\n\nHe was suspended from his own show for two weeks in the wake of those remarks. MSNBC, which simulcasted Imus' show on their network, also suspended broadcasts of his program, with executives calling the comments \"racist and abhorrent\" according to The New York Times. Imus agreed with the suspension, but insisted that he was \"not a racist.\"\n\nStringer had called Imus' comments \"racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable and unconscionable\" at the time.\n\nLater, Imus met with Stringer, and according to Stringer said that he \"didn't come to save his job but to save his soul.\"", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": ["Rutgers"], "authors": [], "publish_date": "Wed Jan 1 10:29:23 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "C. Vivian Stringer, who coaches Rutgers' women's basketball team, sent her condolences to the family of radio host Don Imus in the wake of his passing last week. 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Vivian Stringer, who coaches Rutgers' women's basketball team, sent her condolences to the family of radio host Don Imus in the wake of his passing last week. Imus had infamously referred to members of the team with racist and sexist terms in the wake of a 2007 loss.", "image": "https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1557023/c-vivian-stringer.jpg"}, "article": {"publisher": "https://www.facebook.com/Newsweek", "published_time": "2020-01-01T10:29:23-05:00", "modified_time": "2020-01-01T10:33:11-05:00"}, "twitter": {"site": "@newsweek", "card": "summary_large_image", "title": "Rutgers women's basketball coach sends condolences to Don Imus' family", "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/rutgers-womens-basketball-coach-sends-condolences-don-imus-family-1479973", "description": "C. Vivian Stringer, who coaches Rutgers' women's basketball team, sent her condolences to the family of radio host Don Imus in the wake of his passing last week. 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