DJ says "coon" on the air; gets fired

[Cisco]

Has she done anything to help him get his job back?

[Fiveyearlurker]

@GIGObuster

Even if my grammar is not very good, I think the explanation is making it worse. The correct way should be “would be a big COUP FOR the NFL” or I’m wrong in noticing that in his explanation he was trying to say that Condi was going to take over the NFL in a hostile way?

I heard the audio today. He was speaking very rapidly, and had been for a few sentences previously (where he was saying nice things about Rice). Then it sounded like he tripped on his words and couldn’t decide between “coup” and “boon”, and ended up with the unfortunate juxtaposition of the two words.

[CurtC]

This reminds me of a newspaper article by colmnist Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News, about a Southwest Airlines employee fired for saying something fairly inocuous but taken as offensive by those who heard it: http://dallasmorningviews.beloblog.com/archives/2005/12/re_two_questions.html

[Rico]

Ordinarily, I would not resurrect a dormant thread like this.

But I just got this from Morris Kelly:

This past Wednesday, on KKBT 100.3 the BEAT in Los Angeles.something caught my attention and should have caught others’ as well. Unfortunately, it may have gone relatively unnoticed, if not completely ignored by most. For those unaware, KKBT is an ‘urban’ station; spinning both Hip-Hop and R&B. In addition, it is Black-owned as part of the Radio-One conglomerate. It is a ‘Black station,’ by most if not all definitions.

During the morning show, at approximately 7:45am, “the other shoe dropped” as they say.

The conversation started innocuously enough, with banter about Coca-Cola’s new beverage, named “Coca-Cola Blak.” A female co-host (African-American) commented about its contents and how it wasn’t unlike what she had personally concocted on many occasions.cola + coffee. There was more banter and then one of the male co-hosts quipped in response.

“That’s just Coon Cola.”

Morris Kelly (who is black) states the following:

If it is acceptable for the word ‘coon’ to be used, let’s at least be consistent. Let’s not get up in arms when White radio personalities use it.regardless of intent. Or on the other hand, if we are to be offended when White radio personalities use such disparaging terminology, let’s not also turn a blind eye and ear when those in our own community use it with humor and blithe ignorance. Pick a side of the fence and stay there. It is time to be consistent with our ‘outrage’ as a collective community.

Isn’t that what we’ve ben saying all along?