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Demovictory9

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Wed Jun 3, 2020, 06:43 PM Jun 2020

radio host (now fired): "Okay, let me ask you a question. Were they acting n-word-ish?"

If it feels like deja vu all over again, it kind of is. In 2014, DJs Kimberly Ray and Barry Beck were fired from a Rochester radio station over transgender jokes they made.

On Wednesday morning, the two were fired again, this time from a different Rochester station, over racist comments made the day prior.

The Democrat & Chronicle reports that as the two were talking on Radio 95.1 about a local couple who were attacked after a Black Lives Matter protest, Ray used the term "n-word" three times (she did not use the six-letter slur itself). One example: "Okay, let me ask you a question. Were they acting n-word-ish?"

https://www.newser.com/story/291765/rochester-radio-hosts-fired-in-2014-are-fired-again.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_img_b

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radio host (now fired): "Okay, let me ask you a question. Were they acting n-word-ish?" (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jun 2020 OP
The idiom 'too clever by half' comes to mind ... good riddance, assholes! mr_lebowski Jun 2020 #1
+ A Million ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #4
Bigots gonna bigot gratuitous Jun 2020 #2
more info Demovictory9 Jun 2020 #3
I use an n-word to describe people like these DJs. johnp3907 Jun 2020 #5
Excellent they were FIRED. Cha Jun 2020 #6
cuz social media lit up! Demovictory9 Jun 2020 #8
KKKlaners gonna KKKlan uponit7771 Jun 2020 #7

Demovictory9

(32,324 posts)
3. more info
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 06:50 PM
Jun 2020
https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2020/06/rochester-radio-station-fires-kimberly-beck-for-racist-comments-on-air.html

“Okay, let me ask you a question. Were they acting N-word-ish?” Kimberly said on the iHeartMedia-owned radio station Tuesday. She did not use the explicit racial slur, but also asked if the attackers were acting “N-word-ly.”

“If you look like a thug and if you act like a thug, and you’ve got three on one beating up a white woman with a two-by-four, by God, you’re a thug,” Beck said.

The pair also discussed whether they can use the term “N-word,” and said “no one’s offended by that.”
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