My Life As A Soap

I turned on the tv to NBC (Channel 5 here) and it was that Tommy Hilfiger reality show.  That's not what caught my attention, though.  One of the contestants was apparently (in NYC) trying to get this promo for a party out on the radio waves.  The radio station???  Power 99 FM (in Philedelphia)!!!  It rung a bell, I googled it, and BAM!

It's the same station w/the Star & Buc Wild show that did the racist bit I talked about earlier.  I listened to it again and I hate the people who did this so much.  I can't believe they'd do something like this.  You think that a people of a race that had been enslaved, segregated and opressed for at least 300 years would show a little compassion, but I was so wrong.  How would they like it if I were to call them the N-word?!?!  (I never would, though)  I'm sure I'd get shot!!!  So how is it okay then that he and his assisstant are allowed to call that poor Indian woman a "b*tch" and a "filthy rat-eater"?????

I'm not quick to hate, but I hate them.  HATE.

Actually scratch that...he hates.  Therefore, I won't hate.  If I hate, I've been successfully pushed into their game.  Never.  But I'm taking action.  I want them off the air and I want them fired.

*sigh*  How can anyone do this?

Here's the clip: http://www.turbanhead.com/Power99_Call_to_India.mp3

NARRATOR INTRO: Wakeup with Star and Buc Wild in the mornings of Power 99 FM.

STAR: I'm going to play this call from earlier before we get out of here. This is the, uh, call that I made to -- I thought it was a company here locally. Not that I was surprised.

(laughter)

STAR: I saw this infomercial about, uh, what are these things called again? Oh, the, uh...

FEMALE VOICE: Bead? Oh shoot.

STAR: Anyway, let -- let's just play the call. I was surprised when I got somebody on the line in East India. These little beads that I saw. Little white kids, uh, a little machine that puts them in their hair.

FEMALE VOICE: Mm'hm.

STAR: Play it.

(tape begins)

STEENA: This is Steena. How may I help you?

STAR: Hi, Stain-a, you say?

STEENA: Yes.

STAR: (in fake Indian accent) Yeah, I called and I just got hung up on. I'm calling from America about the quick beads for my daughter's, uh, hair. Quick beads.

STEEA: Okay. May I have your ZIP code please?

STAR: 10274.

STEENA: 10274?

STAR: Yes. Get it right. Now are you in India? Because I just spoke to someone in India who hung up on me.

STEENA: Thank you. I am from India, ma'am.

STAR: Okay. So my call is being outsourced to India.

STEENA: That's right.

STAR: In... in regards to my six year old, white American daughter who wants to get the quick beads like Serena and Venus Williams.

STEENA: Now. I'll definitely place an order for that. See...

STAR: What's that?

STEENA: ...in the ad, she called to place a quick bead of counier. To ensure proper handling...

STAR: Ma'am, I don't know what the hell you're saying. Hang on a second. Let me try and get something straight here. The quick beads, like Venus and Serena Williams, that to advertise to -- to the white kids on television. This call has been outsourced to India?

STEENA: That's right.

STAR: Well, ma'am, what the eff would you know about an American white girl's -- uh, uh -- hair? And quick beads.

STEENA: Just to inform you, ma'am, we're a national chain services company. And we're just taking calls on the opposite...

STAR: Listen, bitch! Don't get slick with the mouth! Don't you get slick with me, bitch!

STEENA: Now if you continue to speak this language, I will disconnect the call.

STAR: Listen to me, you dirty rat eater. I'll come out there and choke the eff out of you.

(laughter)

STAR: You're a filthy rat eater. I'm calling about my American six year old white girl. How dare you outsource my call? Get off the line, bitch!

(laughter; end of tape)

STAR: Pull it up.

(laughter)

STAR: Heard they listen well out there.