A popular hip-hop radio show is in hot water over a parody that mocked victims of the South Asian tsunami catastrophe, calling them "screaming chinks" and "little Chinamen."
Yonkers-based Asian Media Watch accuses the WQHT/Hot 97 "Miss Jones in the Morning" show of "repeated racist attitudes" and demands the program's "elimination."
"The host broadcasts a horrifying song that mocks the dead South Asian tsunami victims, uses the racial slurs 'chink' and 'Chinamen,' and calls the drowning victims 'bitches,' " said AMW director Kai Yu in a letter to Hot 97's John Dimick.
Station-owner Emmis Communications issued an apology late yesterday.
"We apologize to our listeners and to anyone who was offended," Dimick said. "[The show's entire seven-person staff] has agreed to contribute one-week's pay to the tsunami-relief efforts."
You see, one of the morning crew's personalities, Miss Info, objected to the song and tried to seperate herself from the song over the air. This resorted into her getting chewed out by her coworkers, who claimed she wasn't being a team player and was never willing to defend their work. In fact, they hinted at the end of the very heated argument that Info, who they identified as an Asian woman, would be fired after the show. Jones even had the nerve to say to Info, "...and I know you feel you're superior probably because you're Asian, but you're not." Another personality can be heard in the background saying "I'mma start shooting Asians."
I found out about this on the hip hop discussion board OkayPlayer.com, where they are really pissed over this song and the Info incident. Several of them have written to Hot 97's corporate headquarters and directly to the station.
It's amazing that crap like this can be placed over the air. Due to my libertarian leanings, I don't think the government should get involved, but there is no doubt that Miss Jones and everyone else on that morning show staff minus Miss Info should be fired immediately by the station manager and by corporate.
And I really don't see how in the HELL could Miss Info sit there and let those fools create and air that song in her presence, and when she tries to seperate herself from it, they are going to curse her out, threaten to get her fired and hurl racist comments at her...ALL OVER THE AIR. Info didn't do one damn thing. It's stuff like this that totally boggles my mind.
As far as I know, there isn't a set link on an internet server that would have the song available to download, and my bandwidth for blogdrive is too small to hold it. But if you want to hear it, email me here and I could possibly send it to you via email or through AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger when I am online.
Personally, I think the blogosphere needs to get the word out even further and make sure that these bigots never think about doing this again.
