I doubt the DJ's would get fired and if they did, I think that might be wrong. Before you start throwing things at me and calling me names let me explain why I feel this way.
I'm going to admit it. I have been guilty of making a few racial slurs with my friends. I do have a lot of Asian friends and I have been known to 'make fun' of them as friends do by using racial slurs. It was always in good fun and I was always sure to make sure they knew it was in good fun when I did it.
Now, I'm not saying that the DJ's playing the song was justified in any way- nor am I saying that the song is funny in any shape or manner. But neither am I surprised by either- the DJ's playing it or the song being created. I've seen and heard a lot of racial bashing songs making fun of an array of ethnicities. Though I stopped to put myself in the DJ's situation. As we all know- a large percentage of America's population lack common sense. The song- to us- is horrible because of how it was presented to us. Imagine for a moment that you're having fun with a friend, nothing really serious going on at the moment, and a song like that comes on.
Funny right? Yeah you know its wrong and it's bad, but it's funny right now. I've heard songs like that where I laughed about it and maybe we carried on about it for a little to long- but when you look back later you think... oh maybe that was dumb and mean.
Now, I'm giving the DJ's a benefit of the doubt that they actually FEEL bad about what they did. They're probably kicking themselves in the ass because it was a really stupid thing to do- ESPECIALLY on public radio- and now they look and feel like jackholes for doing it. Not only that- their job is on the line. What can they do? They apologize.
While they needed to I'm glad that they did. I know a lot of DJ's on radio stations that would have just brushed it off because they were too prideful to admit they were wrong and stupid for it. No matter how many people complained- in fact it happened a year or so, and I still dont' think he apologized for what he did and yes, he's still working as a DJ.
While what they did was very rude and unthoughtful- they did apologize. I don't know what more we can ask of them.





