[A-List] Re: Another Racist Radio Show

[CeJ <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

> the latest bit of racist radio to come ot our attention, courtesy of
> WFNY 92.3 Free FM in New York. On April 5th, "The Dog House with JV and
> Elvis" midmorning show made a six-minute prank call to a Chinese
> restaurant, in which a series of unsuspecting employees have to deal
> with this caller's racist, sexist remarks, while the hosts laugh their
> asses off in the background:

It seems to be treated as a minor incident for fairly predictable reasons.

One, these guys are no where near as well known as Imus.

Two, now the corporate media realize with the Imus genie out of the
bottle, there will be no end to people making objections to all the
other morons they hire to be their talking heads and voices to create
low-cost, totally empty (when it isn't simply offensive) content that
makes lots of money from advertisers. So they are not letting the
people raising the objections on to their media in order to publicize
the case.

Three, Asians (when their women are not simply sex objects and fetish
fantasies in Hollywood and on the corporate porn WWW) are supposed to
be honorary whites, bourgeois with a non-Christian but still Weberian
work ethic that surpasses the American Puritans and Presbyterians.
Even African-Americans can range into the area of indifference (at
least in my limited interactions) because they still tend to
meta-physicalize race relations in the US as limited to the
white-black divide. OTOH, if the people raising the objections can get
media-capable people like Rev. Sharpton to take up their cause (maybe
they have? how would I know til he appears on Larry King or
something?) they might have a chance to take this further than a
short-term suspension. But it looks to me like the media cartelists
have said they have suspended and fired and shown they will not
tolerate ignorance and racism ENOUGH NOW.

CJ