01-25-2005, 03:59 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Location: chicago, illinois
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"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 Quote:
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. |
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01-25-2005, 04:20 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Location: Dallas, TX
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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.
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01-25-2005, 04:24 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: NJ (but just for college)
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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.
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01-25-2005, 04:50 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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01-25-2005, 04:50 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Location: NJ (but just for college)
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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.
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01-25-2005, 09:32 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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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.
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01-25-2005, 09:41 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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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.
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01-25-2005, 09:57 PM | #11 (permalink) |
All important elusive independent swing voter...
Location: People's Republic of KKKalifornia
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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..... |
01-25-2005, 09:59 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Location: People's Republic of KKKalifornia
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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. |
01-25-2005, 10:08 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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01-25-2005, 10:22 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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Location: New England
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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.
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01-25-2005, 10:27 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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Location: People's Republic of KKKalifornia
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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... |
01-26-2005, 03:56 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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Location: chicago, illinois
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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.
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01-26-2005, 04:02 PM | #18 (permalink) | |
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01-26-2005, 04:06 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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Location: Land of the puny, wimpy states
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people are so filled with hate. Is it insecurity, fear, or some of each?
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01-27-2005, 11:08 AM | #22 (permalink) | ||
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Here's the airplay
and here's a response for Jin the Rapper: response Quote:
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01-27-2005, 11:50 AM | #24 (permalink) |
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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.
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01-27-2005, 12:06 PM | #25 (permalink) |
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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?
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01-27-2005, 12:21 PM | #26 (permalink) |
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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.
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01-27-2005, 12:29 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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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.
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01-27-2005, 12:30 PM | #28 (permalink) |
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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.
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01-27-2005, 12:35 PM | #29 (permalink) | |
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02-01-2005, 01:41 PM | #31 (permalink) | |
Psycho
Location: chicago, illinois
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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.
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