In the metro DC area, one of the dominate radio stations is WJFK 1067 The Fan. This station has been operating for decades and has featured, in the past, Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, Ron and Fez, The Grease Man, Don and Mike and many others. The long running show that is still broadcasting today, among others, is the Sports Junkies.
This show is comprised of 4 Maryland childhood friends who talk about sports and whatever else they decide to talk about during their 4 hour morning show. They are extremely Maryland-centric, you would have to listen to them for a while to understand what that means, and are extreme fans of gambling and extreme conservative former Maryland governor Robert Ehrlich.
Also, these guys are absolutely NOT loyal to anyone. Given the chance they will burn any bridge they have to ANY person to the ground and laugh it off as just entertainment.
And, they are extremely racist… laughing off their racial insensitivity as just their brand of comedy. They have made extremely racially insensitive comments over time and the management of WJFK obviously condones their racism and their overt sexism!
The management of WJFK, represented by Chris Kinard CNKinard@cbs.com, obviously sits back in his chair and laughs at the racism and sexism because he is ANOTHER white man on WJFK who thinks racism and sexism, and homophobia, is funny!
This morning, Wednesday 9-26-12, one of the Sports Junkies, Jason, told the tale of a very recent interaction he had with one of his daughters, who, by the way, is around 10 years old. This is a perfect example of their insulting behavior…
Jason says that his daughter asked him why are football players black and baseball players white. He goes on to tell his tale of how he explained to his daughter that black people hate baseball and black people love football. Also, during this conversation with this obviously young and privileged white girl, he also has a conversation about why the black football players are so skinny. This, along with more racist attitude projected toward his child…
Ok, I have to stop writing about now. My hands are trembling with my disdain. There are 4 Sports Junkies, and at anytime of the show any of them will make crazy comments like that. This is a pattern of behavior that has darkened the airwaves over the DC area for too long and I hate it.
I am a 53 year old black man with a family. I continually write about racial issues, but I NEVER tell my son racist stereotyping crap like what I hear on WJFK every day! And when I called into the station to complain, at about 8:05 AM, the young white call screener tried everything in his power to justify the racism by over-explaining Jason’s racist story by inserting words that never came out of Jason’s mouth. The call screener appeared to be oblivious to the blatantly insulting nature of the racism!
This is the Chocolate City market, which means this is the Washington, D.C. market with its relatively high population of black people. It is obvious to me, by listening to the amount of white people who call into the radio station, especially when serious news takes over the airways, and the fact that there is very little pushback by black people when these men decide to go racist, homophobic and sexist… it is obvious to me that blacks are a tiny minority of their listening fans. There would absolutely be an uprising if more black people were listening to the Sports Junkies. And… it is obvious to me that white people will let such racism slide right past them because a story like Jason’s IS funny to them.
It is not funny when white parents tell their children lies about black people! Jason has just warped the mind of his child. When she sees the next black person, and she might not see a black person in her personal daily life because Jason is PROUD of the area in Northern Virginia in which he lives… an exclusive area with a VERY low black population. I know this as fact, because I live just down the road from his area. And I can go an entire day in my life in the Northern Virginia area of Ashburn, Reston, Herndon, Sterling, Cascades and Leesburg and see 10 black people! I am surrounded by Typical American white people, Spanish speaking people and other Caucasians from around the world.
So, I know that Jason’s daughter probably sees a black person a day! And now he has just added another racially confused child into the American mix. Some of the other Sports Junkies have male children. I shudder to think about what these children have heard uttered from the mouths of these racist, sexist homophobes over their lives.
Today was the last straw. I have chastised and called on WJFK’s racism in the past but the staff blows off my comments… and obviously never passes on the comments to the Shock Jocks. So, no more telephone calls… but you can bet that I am going to take on a writing campaign against their negative social attitudes.
How is it funny to blatantly foster racism in the minds of children? It is this kind of sniping at black people, that many whites project toward their children, that feeds the minds of the next generation of racially confused white people. And it is a shame that open radio if the forum for such racism.
Behold the impetus for the next racist… thanks to one Jason Bishop, Sports Junkie at WJFK radio!
RLJ
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