Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Free speech is about to go down in Los Angeles

And as usual, the justification is to protect and prevent against hate. So I am wondering? How will this play with the RAP stations that play non stop lyrics about crack hoes and every other imaginable misogynistic and racist form of commentary.

Is that just one more example of how racism and sexism and hate can be manifest by so called entertainers? Yet when others in the public arena transgress? They are to be vilified and or prosecuted or hounded into oblivion.

Please excuse me while I go did up my copy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As I must brush up on that duality clause whereby white people are the only people in America that can constitutionally be classed as racist and purveyors of hate speech. Like that separation of church and state clause, it has to be in there somewhere!

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — City Council members took a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the first in the nation to adopt a resolution condemning certain types of speech on public airwaves.
Councilmember Jan Perry introduced legislation that would call upon media companies to ensure “on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs” on radio and other broadcasts.
Members of Black Media Alliance, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Korean-American Bar Association, American Indians in Film and Television were on hand to voice their support for the proposal.
The resolution — which was also supported by Councilmember Bernard Parks and Council President Herb Wesson — called attention to the recent uproar over comments by KFI 640 AM talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou.
Kobylt and Chiampou were suspended after they called the late pop singer Whitney Houston a “crack ho” three days after her death in February.

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