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| Tarsha Jonesy Jones |
I write this with a sincere bias. I have been hating Hot 97's morning radio show since I moved to the NYC area. But since radio is a publicly-owned media outlet, my opinion counts, even if I choose not to listen or critique, my tax dollars go to all radio in this country. Unfortunately, most people don't know that.
When I came here, Miss Jones aka Jonesy, was polluting the airwaves with her negative angry black bitchism. Her reputation off the radio resembled her nasty on-air personality. She was rude, arrogant, and consistently condescending. This might be because she had a failed singing career, and moved into radio to supplement a deflated ego.
Jonesy's bread-and-butter, or so she thought, was to expose celebrities, speak to people with a disgusting demeanor and create various forms controversy through igniting false rumors or playing people against each other. In addition, she and her underlings would make tasteless jokes throughout her show.
What a way to start a good morning, listening to her bullshit. But like other deejays who are used to making quick, controversial laughs for the station's profit, she was fired when her mouth became a problem. Jonesy stationed hopped for a minute until she landed in Philadelphia with the same usual tricks.
Now you have a trio of multi-colored coons making racial jokes about themselves to validate cultural and racially disgusting jokes that are rarely funny. Their punchline, "A Jew, a Puerto Rican and a Black," here you should begin to hear cricket sounds as you ask, so what?
The trio consists of Peter Rosenberg, DJ Cipha Sounds and K Fox. They constantly make racial jokes about their own or each other's racial/ethnic group membership to validate the perpetuation of racism in the media.
The rationale is this: It is a okay when a Jew talks about a Jew in front of a multi-ethnic group because it gives others the permission to speak freely on the subject matter and vice-versa.
