Today at ten o'clock Indian leaders in Minnesota are going to protest KQRS on-air remarks about the Red Lake and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Tribes. KQRS has a
history of racist trash talk not only against Native Americans but
other minority groups:
"Minority groups have long criticized Barnard and his crew for their on-air banter.
In
the late 1990s, members of the Somali community picketed over Barnard
and Co.'s mocking of Somali dialects after a Somali cabdriver was
slain. Before that, the Asian-American community was irate when Barnard
and his co-hosts made fun of a teenage Hmong girl who was charged with
killing her newborn son.
They said of her potential $10,000 fine: "That's a lot of eggrolls."
And in other news of the day there is a article in the Lawrence, Kansas newspaper called Haunted Haskell. That must be a first to address: all those Halloween stories one heard on the Haskell campus over the decades!
Jacoby Ellsbury gets his first World Series ring as the Boston Red Sox wins the World Series in a four game sweep. Also the Boston Red Sox outfielder won free tacos for America for stealing a base in the Thursday's World Series game...!
"A popular Twin Cities radio station will apologize for offending Native Americans in Minnesota.
