"Don't accept this feeble apology, " said City Council Member Charles Barron, an African American who called the costume racist.

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"Imus's bigoted remarks are indicative of the entrenched racism found throughout the corporate news and entertainment media in the United States, " said Viola Plummer, an aide to New York Councillor Charles Barron.

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"It is truly a very, very unusual situation where a person like Charles Barron has a chance of being elected to U.S. Congress, a person who holds dictators and terrorists as his heroes, " said Rabbi Mordechai Tokarsky, who is executive director of RAJE (Russian American Jewish Experience), but was speaking as an individual.

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