"Tsunami Song"
 

Im not sure to put this here or tiltled music, but have any of you heard this racist song from Hot97? I dont see how making fun of tsunami vicitms and asians is funny in anyway.

Heres a news article on it http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-235138c.html


Here are the 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 to child slavery

If you want to hear it http://www.3030radio.com/

All i have to say is that i hope action is taken, and Miss Jones is fired.

Haven't heard the song, but I enjoy "Yellow Fever" by the Bloodhound Gang so I might not be the right guy to ask.

Ok, that is just sick and tasteless. And it sounds like someone just trying to get ratings through shock value instead of talent.

And sadly, it worked. It reminds me a spoiled kid who just wants attention. And doesn't care if it’s the right or wrong kind. Just as long as somebody is watching them act the fool.

And the really sad part, they are getting it. Maybe we should top off the punishment with a trip to the wood shed.

that is sick and tasteless indeed. the song is terrible, but i think miss jones's remarks, as well as the other guy's, towards miss info are just as bad. i think not only should they be fired, but the government should punish them by making them take elementary school over. that would be incredibly humorus and creative, and so degrading that they would never be racist again.

If you find the song sick and tastless (as I do), turn the radio off. No big deal, it's not worth censoring or punishing anyone over. There's a reason radios have an off button and multiple stations.

It's hard to tell from the article, but it sounds like Miss Info raised her objection on the air, that was all that she needed to say. The fact that Miss Jones made her racist comment on the air, is perhaps a firable offence, but having the FTC get involved for a person's thoughts is extreme. if Todd Lynn said his comments on the air, well then, arrest his sorry stupid ass for making that threat. if it wasn't said on air, then well, you can't punish someone for their thoughts.

Every day, someone is going to be offended by something... I can choose to let it bother me or not bother me. it's people who alert the media and bitch at the top of their lungs, turn attention to what would probably be a non-event.

I turn the other cheek as often as anyone...it's a great thing to do. But not everyone can do it, that doesn't lend itself to a healthy society. If we ignore racism, it will not go away. If we should have learned anything from history, it's that ignoring the problem does not make it go away. But in this case, I guess I agree...the bad publicity and fear for their jobs is enough to stop them from ever doing it again. But it won't stop others from doing it.

They should be fired.

If that Opie and [something] crew get dropped for sex in a church, the same should be applied to these twats.


Mr Mephisto

No such thing as bad publicity, the radio station will get money from people who want to hear what other horrid things they are going to say.

I don't agree with what was said, but she can say whatever she wants, it is her right.
If the government punish or fired them, I'd be real scared about who else they'd start punishing and firing.

I believe in free speech . . . and I know that free speech protects even this kind of distasteful expression . . . But geeze . . .

That song is in extremely poor taste and downright hurtful to the victims and those who lost loved ones . . . it's really disgusting that someone could so separate themselves from a tragedy of this magnitude to view it in a humorous and not to mention racist light in order to gain publicity . . . The person who wrote it is disturbed indeed.

Hmmm...that guy who made fun Martin Luther King two weeks ago (TV Weather man) by "accident got fired AND he issued a public apology.

I guess it's ok to advocate "shooting Asians" (not free speech) but not ok to unwittingly make fun of Dr. King.

Someone justify that please.....

You all know things would be different if they had said "nigger", "kike", or "faggot" in the song. Michael Jackson had to rewrite his song a few years back: He had to take out the line, "kike me" which his Jewsih layer said wasn't a big deal. GO figure...

So if they can do that, then they can certainly fire Miss Thang and make her apologize, for real.

Opie and Anthony

gross...i hope they get fired. i sure as hell wouldn't put up with that crap on a radio station, even if i otherwise liked it.

Also, could someone please tell me how a woman's breast (Janet Jackson "incident") is more offensive than advocating the death of an entire race enough to warrant a public apology and a fine?

That's just wrong...

Its sad what these radio personalitys will do just to gain ratings. But if your going to do something vulgar do it at least on XM radio or Sirus.

Well, at least some action has been taken against Miss Jones and the morning show. They have all been indefinitely suspended by Emmis the owners of Hot 97.

http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=63741

If only we had magical powers that would allow them to have to live one week in the souls of those who lost family members and homes to the tsunami, like that Twilight Zone episode, then maybe they'd understand why what they did was so idiocally wrong.

people are so filled with hate. Is it insecurity, fear, or some of each?

Wow, I am truly amazed that this action was taken. Maybe there is a little hope and justice after all....

I say send Miss Jones and her crew to Southeast Asia for volunteer work for a week. She can talk the talk but can she walk the walk? Doubt it!

Here's the airplay

and here's a response for Jin the Rapper:

response

from angryasianman.com

Funny how the song mentions Africans and Chinamen and yet the tsunami didn't affect those parts of the world. Ah, ignorance at its finest!

Coppertop. Please check your facts.

Somalia had up to 200 casualties, and thousasnds of homes destroyed. Kenya, Tanzania and the Seychelles were also affected. Chinese citizens were killed and several are still missing.

It went as far as Somalia/East Coast of Africa? Didn't know that. And while China may have had citizens affected, so did the US. That doesn't exactly make it a US disaster now, does it?

All in all, it was in rather poor taste.

Poor taste. Mocking people for what happened is grade school humor. I've never really liked the whole shock jock thing. I listened to Stern here and there and found some of his stuff funny, but the whole slew of wannabes that followed just try to see how low they can go for a joke, usually at an unknowing persons expense.

That’s some gnarly shit - and as much as I’d love to be violently intolerant of intolerant people, it's not my call to judge them (There goes the printing of the "Tool of Karma" shirt and the Thinktank engraved "Aluminum Bat of Equality"), and with no religious connotation whatsoever, I do think that what goes around does come around . They should probably get fired, as that’s as far from professionalism as things come... but you cant argue that they have the right to write these things.

It is a world-wide disaster. Coppertop, you specifically mentioned Africans, and 'Chinamen', a term which I do not use in polite conversation. Please do not minimize the value of any one person's life, from any continent. Joeseph Stalin said "One death is a tragedy; A million is a statistic." He was partially right. The radio show's insensitivity has earned them the notoriety and the consequences they were seeking.

Opie and Anthony are the names of the guys, but if you look at this, I was listening to them on XM the other day when they were talking about this song, The surprising thing is the person who wrote it was their old producer at the station they got fired at. They played the song and what the people on the station said about it.

To be clear: I used the words Africans and Chinamen because those are the lyrics in the song.

Well, some justice has been paid. Todd Lynn from the morning show has been fired from Hot97. Just waiting to hear about the rest of the crew, minus Miss Info of course.