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