I received this in an email today and i am horrified. This is absolutely disgusting and completely racist. This woman deserves to be fired immediately. How DARE she make light of what happened. And to use blatantly racist terms like that is disgusting.
Here is what I received:
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In what has to be one of the most idiotic displays of the first amendment, New York City radio station Hot 97 Miss Jones in the morning program has been airing the attached "parody" of We are the World, making fun of tsunami victims, apparently taking delight in the over 200,000 lives that have been lost in one of the worst tragedies in history. As if the deaths weren't enough, Hot 97 has also added an element of racism, just in case the situation wasn't desctructive enough.
Sample lyrics:
"There was a time, when the sun was shining
bright
So I went down to the beach to catch me a tan.
Then the next thing I knew, a wave 20 feet high
Came and washed your whole country away.
And all at once, you can hear the screaming
chinks.
And no one was saved from the wave.
There were Africans drowning, little Chinamen
swept away.
You can hear God laughing, 'Swim you bitches
swim.'
[Chorus]
"So now you're screwed. It's the tsunami,
You better run and kiss your ass away. Go find
your mommy.
I just saw her float by, a tree went through her
head.
And now your children will be sold. Child
slavery."
The links below offer good continuing coverage of this idiocy, including links to Hot 97's half-assed apology and another mp3 that has an asian cast member getting torn down when she has the gall to object to the content. You would think that the sheer devastation of the tsunami would unite us as to understand the fragility of humanity and that tragedy knows no skin color. Yet Hot 97 has decided to use it to further divide us, almost implying that the deaths were acceptable because it happened in third-world southeast asia. Absolutely sick. I encourage you to forward this to anyone who may listen to Hot 97 in New York and
encourage them to boycott the Miss Jones show, until a more substantive apology is issued and broadcast on
air. Also blitzing Hot 97's email account and their sponsors should also demonstrate the outrage that should be apparent.
HOT 97
395 Hudson St. 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10014
(212) 229-9797
hot97@hot97.com
RELEVANT LINKS:
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000759.html
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000760.html
http://www.asianmediawatch.net/missjones/index.html
Racist radio station--this is crazy!
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