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Tsunami ha-ha.


A New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 radio station apologized for repeatedly airing a song that ridiculed victims of the Asian tsunami and used racial insults. New York FM radio station WQHT WQHT, more commonly known as "Hot 97", is a high-profile Rhythmic Contemporary radio station in New York City under the corporate ownership of Emmis Communications. The station broadcasts on 97.1 MHz FM and first signed on the air in the summer of 1986 as "Hot 103" (103.  broadcast the piece on its "Miss Jones in the Morning" show. The segment had racist references to tsunami victims, made gags about child slavery slavery, institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services. , and mocked children who watched their mothers get killed in the disaster.
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Date:Mar 1, 2005
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