"Unquestionably" racist? It's very questionable. Unquestionably questionable. It looks like he just didn't want someone to take his use of the word "nigger" out of context. It looks like he stated this multiple times, and yet half of the US have dug out the pitchforks and torches they used for Imus. We can't know for sure what he meant by using the word, but it's pretty obvious, based on his multiple explanations, that what he said wasn't based on race.