Hot 97 Radio Hosts Sing of 'Screaming Chinks,' and 'Chinamen' Tsunami Victims

Asian Media Watch

January 21, 2004
'And all at once, you can hear the screaming chinks.
And no one was saved from the wave.
There were Africans drowning, little Chinamen swept away.
You can hear God laughing, 'Swim you bitches swim.' '
Yet another example of racist hate radio aired on New York's Hot 97 WQHT-FM broadcast their 'Tsunami Song' which laughs at dead South Asian tsunami victims using racially derogatory words 'chink' and 'Chinamen,' and by calling the drowning victims 'bitches.' The song aired twice on the 'Miss Jones in the Morning' show on January 18, 2005. The radio hosts received complaints soon after airing the song and responded by playing the song again, an anonymous source told Asian Media Watch.
Lyrics:
'There was a time, when the sun was shining bright
So I went down to the beach to catch me a tan.
Then the next thing I knew, a wave 20 feet high
Came and washed your whole country away.
And all at once, you can hear the screaming chinks.
And no one was saved from the wave.
There were Africans drowning, little Chinamen swept away.
You can hear God laughing, 'Swim you bitches swim.'

[Chorus]
'So now you're screwed. It's the tsunami,
You better run and kiss your ass away. Go find your mommy.
I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head.
And now your children will be sold. Child slavery.'

Listen to the full audio clip at:
http://www.asianmediawatch.net/missjones/

This comes on the heels of another racist broadcast ( http://www.asianmediawatch.net/starandbucwild/ ) by the self-proclaimed 'haters' of the 'Star and Buc Wild' morning show on Power 99 WUSL-FM Philadelphia. Radio host Star (Troi Terrain) called a customer service call center in India, threatened to 'choke' the operator, and called her a 'filthy rat-eater' and 'bitch.'

Miss Jones are Star (Troi Terraine) are former co-hosts on the same radio program.

As with Star (Troi Terraine), this is not the first incident in which 'Miss Jones' has made racially inflammatory comments. In response to the sale of a board game called Ghettopoly, Jones enflamed an already racially charged situation by asking listeners make their own board game called 'Chinkopoly' and to make demeaning imitations of Asians as retaliation towards Ghettopoly's creator who is an Asian American.

Asian Media Watch urges concerned individuals to demand an apology from New York's Hot 97 WQHT-FM and its parent company Emmis Communications. A complaint may be filed with the Federal Communications Commission which enforces laws prohibiting 'the broadcast of indecent programming during certain hours' (including profanity). Be sure to follow the FCC's format and guidelines for filing the complaint at http://www.fcc.gov/parents/content.html

CONTACT

Hot 97 WQHT-FM
395 Hudson Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212-229-9797
Fax: 212-929-8559
E-mail: hot97@hot97.com
E-mail: morningshow@hot97.com
Barry Mayo, General Manager
John Dimick, Program Director

Emmis Communications
One Emmis Plaza
40 Monument Circle, Suite 700
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: 317-266-0100
Fax: 317-631-3750
E-mail: IR@emmis.com
Jeffrey H Smulyan, Chairman and CEO

Federal Communications Commission
Enforcement Bureau, Investigations and Hearings Division
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
Phone: 1-888-CALL-FCC
E-mail: fccinfo@fcc.gov
Web: http://www.fcc.gov/parents/content.html