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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1964
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 02:52 pm: | 
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I know you guys have heard about the St. Louis DJ who got fired for calling Condi a coon on the air--
Ahhh! My town! My people!
St. Louis! Got it all from A to Z! |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 262
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 03:02 pm: |
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He said it was a slip and that he meant to say "coup." Is that true? Did you hear it? |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1965
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 03:04 pm: |
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<<Yeah--that's just what I would have said---
KTRS host is fired over racial slur
By Jake Wagman
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, Mar. 22 2006
ST. LOUIS
A local radio personality was kicked off the air Wednesday after using a racial
slur when talking about U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Dave Lenihan, who was in his second week as a morning show host on KTRS (550
AM), was fired almost immediately after saying "coon" while describing why Rice
would fit well as commissioner of the National Football League.
"She's been chancellor at Stanford. I mean she's just got the patent resume of
somebody that's got some serious skill," Lenihan said, according to a recording
provided by KTRS. "She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind
of be a big coon. . . ."
"'A big coon?' Oh my god," Lenihan said during the morning broadcast. "I am
totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that. OK? I didn't mean
that. That was just a slip of the tongue."
The remark prompted an on-air apology 20 minutes later from the station's
president, who said "there are no excuses" for what was said.
"There is no place for anything like that in this world," KTRS chief Tim Dorsey
said. "There is enough hate. And we certainly are not going to fan those
flames."
Dorsey said he decided to fire Lenihan after listening to the broadcast several
times.
"I don't know what is in Mr. Lenihan's mind. I know what I heard," Dorsey said.
"I know it was reprehensible."
A State Department spokesman declined to comment.
Rice's qualifications to lead the NFL have been fodder for talk radio since the
current commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, announced that he is retiring in July.
Rice, who was actually a former provost at Stanford University, is an avid
gridiron fan and follower of the Cleveland Browns. In 2001, she told Glamour
magazine that running the NFL is her "dream job."
But this week, Rice said that the football position "came open at the wrong
time."
Lenihan had been at KTRS a week and a half, Dorsey said, part of an attempt by
the station to recast its programming since it became the new flagship station
of the Cardinals. The team bought half of the station last year, a move that
has led to a personnel switch at the "Big 550." The station fired almost all of
its on-air staff shortly before Christmas.
Lenihan's radio resume is limited to three years at WGNU (920 AM). Before that,
Lenihan says, he lived in Scotland.
Reached at his home Wednesday, Lenihan apologized again, saying he meant to use
the word "coup" instead of "coon."
"I've never, ever really used that word in my life. Maybe psychologically-wise
deep down perhaps, but it's not how I feel," Lenihan said. "It's not how I
raised my kids. It's kind of wrecked my life to be honest."
Lenihan described himself as a Rice supporter, and said he has already written
an apology to her.
"I'm a big fan. I'm a conservative talk-show host," said Lenihan "Or, was a
conservative talk-show host."
This is not the first time controversy has led to the dismissal of a St. Louis
broadcaster. In August, two deejays for KATZ (100.3 FM) were fired after the
pair discussed how they would confront a police officer. In 1993, two disc
jockeys, Steve Shannon and D.C. Chymes with then-WKBQ (106.5 FM), were fired
after using a racial slur against a caller. They are back on the St. Louis
airwaves.
And last month, minority workers reporting to a job site on Interstate 64 near
Caseyville encountered a dead raccoon hanging by a wire around its neck.
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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2122
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 03:46 pm: |
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I guess we gotta stop calling each other coons, huh? Damn whities! What exactly is a coon anyway? I can look it up but that would take some time, wouldn't it...? Anybody know what a coon is? |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1966
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 04:06 pm: |
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You know what a coon is--
Now let's see somebody blame the gangsta rappers for that one--
Could it be that they are not responsible?
Could it be that white folks got nine billion epithets for black people?
The mind boggles. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 263
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 04:28 pm: |
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I think we have way more derogatory terms for them: whitey, honkey, hunkie, cracker, soda cracker, white trash and trailer trash are some that come to mind. I think most of them just call us niggers. I've never heard the term coon used. Is that a regional thing? |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 264
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 04:29 pm: |
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I forgot about peckawood. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1967
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 05:02 pm: |
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Coon, splib, spade, spearchucker, porch moneky, jungle bunny, jigaboo, zigaboo,jig, spook, shine--they may just be before your time. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4240
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 05:21 pm: |
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Tonya, the word "coon" is short for for racoon. This is another derogatory name that white people once used to refer to blacks because they thought the mask-like faces of racoons resembled those of black people. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 265
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 05:29 pm: |
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Doubt if those were before my time, but I've never heard of most of them. I was very sheltered by my parents during the sixties and here in my adopted hometown there's not a whole lot of racial tension. The local population is mostly Mexicans (with tons of gangs) and white ppl are the minority, so the whites don't act uppity like they do elsewhere. These crazy Mexicans will kill somebody for honking their car horn or looking at them wrong so whitey wouldn't dare say any of that around here. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 2123
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 11:46 pm: |
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Wow! I didn't know that--I thought it was similar to an "uncle Tom." I used that word recently not realizing what it meant - stupid. I suppose that's what I get for forever talking out the side of my neck, lol. Oh, well. Thanks, Cynnique. |
Anunaki3600
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Username: Anunaki3600
Post Number: 151
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 01:40 am: |
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The "colored folks" in the South African city of Cape Town have a "Coon" festival every year. This festival has been going on for close to two hundred years. It has been suggested to the "colored" folks that this festival should be stopped or the name changed but they insist that the name and festival has become part of their culture. Just google "coon festival cape town" and you may catch the site that has interesting pictures, etc of the festival. |
Roxie
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Username: Roxie
Post Number: 752
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 09:27 am: |
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My local station played the tape in it's entirety. The guy was kinda slow at catching himself. He definitely didn't stumble over his words like Rush Limbaugh did with his "Ray Nagir" slip, but I don't know. "Coon" didn't raise MY eyebrows.
I'm still suspicious as to his subconcious feelings, which probably slipped out during that broadcast. I'd keep him, and the guy who suggested we abort black babies, on our radar. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1968
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 02:23 pm: |
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So Cynique--you seen Napoleon Dynamite yet? |
Rustang
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Username: Rustang
Post Number: 252
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 06:39 pm: |
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You forgot Coconut and Rughead, Chris.From reading the text of his comment I have no problem believing that he meant what he said he meant.I also have no problem believing that it was a Freudian slip in the truest sense.When he sees Condi he thinks coondi. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1977
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:28 am: |
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Coconut. That one is rather esoteric. Rughead--don't you mean burrhead? Brillopad head?
You got it right--I would like to hear the bull sessions he has with his mates (probably over in Dogtown) when they get well lubricated and let themselves go.
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Rustang
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Username: Rustang
Post Number: 253
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 05:46 pm: |
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Chris, I suppose it's a regional thing.Rughead was quite popular in north georgia when I was a kid, as was coconut.Burrhead was probably a midwestern thing.There is an astonishing number of slurs, apparantly. |
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