Mocking of Tsunami Tragedy
Friday, January 28, 2005 by AtlanticCanadianScot | Discussion: Websites
Recently in New York City, a popular hip hop station, Hot 97 & ranked # 2 in ratings for that market, improvised a parody of Quincy Jones’ 1985 single “We Are The World” which was produced at that time to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The result was an unbelievably reckless racist mocking of said tragedy....below are the web links of an on-going On-Line Petition posted by a member of the Asian Community in New York; Kevin Chung. as well as an article explaining the outrage by the Asian & Black communities of New York: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?endhate&1 Background Info: http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/articles/50747/
Community Reaction: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-ethot0129,0,8025.story?coll=ny-homepage-promo I want as many people as possible aware of this sad incidence of arrogant disregard for human suffering & disrespect of other nationalities
Community Reaction: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-ethot0129,0,8025.story?coll=ny-homepage-promo I want as many people as possible aware of this sad incidence of arrogant disregard for human suffering & disrespect of other nationalities
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AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #22 Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:39 PM
Reply #22 Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:39 PM
Hey Essencay: Thx for taking the time consider this post & contributing
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #23 Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:42 PM
Reply #23 Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:42 PM
Hey Journeyman: Thx for taking the time to read my post & contributing
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Reply #24 Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:36 PM
Reply #24 Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:36 PM
Unfortunately, Sean they are all over the world. And I beleive the only thing to overcome it is to carry on as a person who has a positive attitude and tries to live by example. If enough people can do it, someday.....it might change. Meantime I will continue to send emails and sign petitions, and try to keep my peace of mind. Only Light will overcome the darkness.
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #25 Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:12 PM
Reply #25 Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:12 PM
tell it CL!.....you ARE a cool lady
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Reply #26 Saturday, January 29, 2005 9:41 PM
Reply #26 Saturday, January 29, 2005 9:41 PM
Thankyou very much. That's a nice thing to say. You are a cool gent!
MorghainenCorae
Reply #27 Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:48 PM
Reply #27 Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:48 PM
We must always remeber though that when you limit anything someone can say by law you limit everything... I for one am very frightened about the growing christian right in my country, the Uninted States... very frightened. What is to stop them from allowing statements contrary to christian thinking if we start any form of censorship... they are the types of people that will push it to that point. I like to remind people, humans take things to extremes... You start to censor and people of this nature will want anything they don't like censored... I believe anyone should be able to say what is on thier mind... now it is up to US to decide what we listen to... period. I don't agree with religous evangalism I find it an evil attempt to pervert anothers mind... but that does not mean I am going to tell people the can't have religous TV or radio shows... and yes I find it that offensive... Conversly the christian right in this country is doing all it can to force thier will on me and others, that's just not right... at all. Our President gets news reporters fired... pays off others to have the type of image he wants put across... and now the whole world is losing something precious our freedoms... even if it is just the freedom to disagree... I am actualy shocked that so many people come here to forums like this to speak thier minds and then say others can not. I complety agree what that radio broadcast contained was VERY SICK and DEPRAVED... but I will not support silencing someone... EVER! America will be dead and the constitution should be burned at that point... here is the 1st Amendmant to remind you....
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Is there something not clear there? Looks straight forward to me... The best way to deal with people that make such horribly foul media is to not listen... I DIDN'T... I did not have to follow the link to know how bad it was... and by you all doing so, you incite more interest! The people who did this should just plain be ignored by thinking people as the rest of us thinking adults continue to educate the world that such concepts are wrong... Passing laws is dangerous as they will allways be brought to bear on us in the worst possible ways... peace....
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Is there something not clear there? Looks straight forward to me... The best way to deal with people that make such horribly foul media is to not listen... I DIDN'T... I did not have to follow the link to know how bad it was... and by you all doing so, you incite more interest! The people who did this should just plain be ignored by thinking people as the rest of us thinking adults continue to educate the world that such concepts are wrong... Passing laws is dangerous as they will allways be brought to bear on us in the worst possible ways... peace....
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #28 Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:31 PM
Reply #28 Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:31 PM
Hey MorghainenCorae:
Thx for taking the time to sit down & post a thoughtful dissertation of your view of free speech.....& yes, I can see your point of view what with the ever increasing rabid power of the Neo Conservatives in your country, & yes, they scare us here in Canada seeing & hearing their diatribes in the media....but let me reiterate a point I made wirh Kona, which is:
Your point is absolutely valid....it is a fine line between censorship & regulation, BUT in this case the collective value system of the community was offended, SO, it would seem your FCC should step in & evaluate a broadcaster that offends the community standard for decency, much like our Canadian Regulatory Television Commission did with a recent case in one of our provinces....we Canadians are as outspoken as our fellow Americans, & value that civil liberty as much as yourselves....BUT when that civil liberty is exercised at the expense of the greater good, the Feds do intervene & the public is pleased...democracy in action....the will of the majority. Thx for taking the time to consider this sad reality check in NY & contributing
Thx for taking the time to sit down & post a thoughtful dissertation of your view of free speech.....& yes, I can see your point of view what with the ever increasing rabid power of the Neo Conservatives in your country, & yes, they scare us here in Canada seeing & hearing their diatribes in the media....but let me reiterate a point I made wirh Kona, which is:
Your point is absolutely valid....it is a fine line between censorship & regulation, BUT in this case the collective value system of the community was offended, SO, it would seem your FCC should step in & evaluate a broadcaster that offends the community standard for decency, much like our Canadian Regulatory Television Commission did with a recent case in one of our provinces....we Canadians are as outspoken as our fellow Americans, & value that civil liberty as much as yourselves....BUT when that civil liberty is exercised at the expense of the greater good, the Feds do intervene & the public is pleased...democracy in action....the will of the majority. Thx for taking the time to consider this sad reality check in NY & contributing
MorghainenCorae
Reply #29 Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:07 AM
Reply #29 Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:07 AM
Still cannot agree... I guess that is why I hold out hope for the constitution of our country... law or governmental repercusion is the poorist method of dealing with social problems. Social problems should stay social problems. It says more about our culture and our ability to educate our populace than it says about our government or our laws....
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #30 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:00 AM
Reply #30 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:00 AM
actually Dude, the more I think of it, with the social pressures in your country at this time, yeah, market pressure brought on by community outrage will probably bring that station to its knees....suspending the uneducated sociopathic hostess indefinetly & contributing her & her suspended staff's wages toward the Tsunami fund is insulting & angering the collective community in New York as well as overseas, but closer to home, long term economics with the social stigma attached to this incident coupled with the Black & Asian advertiser boycott is probably the ONLY means by which to settle this ongoing social affront...as they say....money talks
kona0197
Reply #31 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:01 AM
Lets NOT forget that the US Constitution is based on God and Christanity. I feel once we take God out of the laws and basically out of everything this country will fall.
Reply #31 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:01 AM
| I for one am very frightened about the growing christian right in my country, the Uninted States... very frightened. What is to stop them from allowing statements contrary to christian thinking if we start any form of censorship... they are the types of people that will push it to that point. |
Lets NOT forget that the US Constitution is based on God and Christanity. I feel once we take God out of the laws and basically out of everything this country will fall.
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #32 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:09 AM
Reply #32 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:09 AM
hey Kona....thx for weighing in....in every other country but yours an FCC intervention would be in order & suitable for this social outrage BUT yeah. you have to deal with the increasingly rabid Neo Conservatives...& they ARE s c a r y .....when they want Sponge Bob Square Pants removed from the public domain, ya know those people aren't operating with all 4 piano legs, so yeah, with the complex social strata you guys are dealing with, the Market is probably the only way for social democracy to work....again, you live in a complex social structure....my head hurts thinking about it all.....perhaps this news story might shed light on your current dilemma http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/01/29/oreilly050129.html
Fond Regards From Atlantic Canada
Fond Regards From Atlantic Canada
messybuu
Reply #33 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:17 AM
Reply #33 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:17 AM
The best way to deal with this is to hit them where it hurts: by giving advertisers a reason not to support them.
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #34 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:27 AM
Reply #34 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:27 AM
exactly Jux....glad you feel the same as I
gooberbean28
Reply #35 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:27 AM
Reply #35 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:27 AM
MorghainenCorae, as kona said our Constitution is based on God and Christianity.It's not christian people that are protesting the Pledge of Alliegence in schools and the Ten Commandments in public places and they have cencored both in the U.S.These things have been there since our founding fathers.But yet this filth and predjudice that was aired about the Tsunami victims should be allowed? No one race is any better than another we are all one race ,the human race!
gooberbean28
Reply #36 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:31 AM
Reply #36 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:31 AM
initiatedsean dont judge all christians by a couple of fanatics there are fanatics on both sides of the fence.You sit here and talk about these people putting down asians and blacks and in the same forum you seem to be putting down christians. "these people arent operating on4 piano legs" 
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #37 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:34 AM
Reply #37 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:34 AM
thx for weighing in Goob....I remember well that incident about a year ago in Alabama whereby that statue with the 10 commandments had to be removed....your laws don't seem to be applied correctly to correct actions...that statue should have remained....Miss Thing in NY needs to removed permanantly from her current post & I am sure market & social pressure would make any other broadcaster not look favorably on her as a suitable personality for the airwaves....as far as Christians go....as long as they are spiritual & magnamimous & don't inhibit others thinking & entertainment without being Big Brother, & pocess a live & let live attitude, I am cool....BUT when a w h o l e community has had their integrity insulted, I am sure we would unite in common umbrage
gooberbean28
Reply #38 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:45 AM
Reply #38 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:45 AM
Filth is filth and if it hurts a people or a race of people then it needs to be taken off the air . Dont think the USA would have liked it if a foreign country would have mocked 911 liked these people did to the asian and blacks in this Tsunami song , people would have flipped and been outraged !
gooberbean28
Reply #39 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:53 AM
Reply #39 Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:53 AM
It outrages me because I have 2 grandsons, one bi-racial and one asian and would never let anyone put them down.We need to stop the prejudice in this country.Sorry but this seemed to hit a nerve. Have a nice day sean ! 
AtlanticCanadianScot
Reply #40 Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:34 AM
Reply #40 Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:34 AM
exactly Goob....superb point...& believe me the New Yorkers have raised the same point, not to mention Indians....this "Parody" has been picked up by the wire services & has caused hurt & outrage in Europe, the Far East & Asia...you should have read an editorial this week in The Times of India....the contributor raised the same points you just did...pleased we are in common accord...sorry for the misunderstanding...thx for contributing
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Reply #21 Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:26 PM