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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsradio 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
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)Thought they were properly coding their racism.
Not feeling very smart now, are they?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Don't hire these people, radio stations. They've shown you who they are. Twice.
Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)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 youve got three on one beating up a white woman with a two-by-four, by God, youre a thug, Beck said.
The pair also discussed whether they can use the term N-word, and said no ones offended by that.
johnp3907
(3,723 posts)Nazis!