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Pacific Citizen, Feb WllJ.VOGO? GRADS AT LAST PRIZE SCRIBE Texas Rep. Hubert Vo Nisei siblings get Hey Harry Potter, Special listing of Day fights to keep his their diplomas 62 Kadohata wins of Remembrance office in legislature years later top kid's lit award events near you PAGE 3 PAGE 6 PAGE 9 PAGE 10 Since 1929 ______________________________________r INSIDE Can Quarterback ~CIFIC Timmy Chang wob­ CITIZEN ble his way into the The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League NFL?- PAGE 7 Radio Station Under Fire for Tsunami Parody Song HOT 97 FM responds to con­ "Morning Show" team "due to the object to the song's insensitivity, but troversy by suspending content of the tsunami song and its she was promptly accused of feeling employees, but angry protests bad taste." superior because of her Asian eth­ continue to press the radio sta­ That morning's conciliatory nicity. Most of the "Morning tion for full accountability. broadcast was a stark contrast to the Show's" hosts are African usually raucous radio show known American. Tudd Lynn, also a co­ By LYNDA LIN for its prank phone calls and face host, announced that he was going Assistant Editor slapping contests. For many out­ to "start shooting Asians." raged listeners, the announcement In the immediate wake of the con­ Note to HOT 97 FM (wQHT­ sounded like sweet bells of justice. troversy, HOT 97 FM radio station FM): Human tragedy is no laughing The now infamous song, a parody officials issued a blanket apology. matter. of the ·1985 charity anthem "We are Jones and Program Director John The New York-based radio sta­ the World," included these lyrics: Dimmick gave on-air apologies and tion got the message loud and clear All at once you could hear the announced that the entire "Morning recently when angry Asian Pacific screaming chinks, Show" team agreed to give up one . Americans and enraged listeners And no one was safe from the week's pay to aid the tsunami relief roared loud enough to force the wave. effort. morning show off the air for playing There were Africans drowning, "I should have known better and I a tsunami parody song filled with little Chinamen swept away. PHOTO: JAY SMOOTH didn't. So I'm sorry and hopefully racial slurs and misguided humor. You could hear God laughing, Drop it like it's hot-Hundreds of protestors braved freezing we can move forward from this, or I listeners who tuned into the pop­ 'Swim bitches, swim. ' temperatures Jan. 28 to protest the tsunami parody song in front can move forward from this being a ular hip-hop radio station in the The song hit the airwaves only a of HOT 97 FM's New York studio. better hostess, because I am, better early moming hour of Jan. 26 were month after the South Asian tsunami than that," said Jones, in her on-air recording of the song was quickly ly charged argument between Jones greeted with a humble announce­ killed over 200,000 and while res-· statement. circulated through the Internet and "Morning Show" Co-Host Miss ment of the indefinite suspension of cue workers were still recovering Emmis Communications, HOT allowing listeners to not only hear . Info. radio personality Miss Jones and the bodies in the ruins. It was reported­ ly replayed for four days. An audio the tsunami song, but also the racial- Miss Info was the only one to See HOT 97 FMlpage 2 Fr Texa to]j Former JACL Nat'l President to Rename 'Jap' Roads Continues Patrick K. Okura Passes at Age 93 By CAROLINE AOYAGI changed," said John A JACL leader for over 65 unexpected because of his failing Executive Editor Tateishi, JACL execu­ years, Okura was a pioneer health of late, is nonetheless a sad tive director. "The only in the mental health field. and tragic loss for the JACL." Sandra Tanamachi has spent the way we're going to "Pat served the organization with better part of the last decade taking eliminate the use of the By CAROLINE AOYAGI . such dedication over the span of on the state of Texas. Now her eyes word is by JAPlANE Executive Editor decades, always so willing to be a are set on Tennessee. J.llll.P l.r\ friend, advisor, mentor, and father In the past few months, nlawrenceburg, TN. 38464 Former JACL National President figure to so many young Japanese Tanamachi has seen her hard work Patrick K. Okura, whose impact Americans who were fortunate payoff with three Texas Counties , JAPLANE went beyond JACL to include the See OKURA/page 8 agreeing to rename roads that con­ oS 5 ";3. ~ mental health and civil . tain racial slurs such as "Jap Road" ~ ~----------------------~ ~ I rights communities, and "Jap Lane." Now she is taking ., o::l ahead with their campaign to passed away Jan. 30 her fight east where the state of J:l"P~ rename the tWo "Jap Lanes" in nEthridge. TN. 38456 after a lengthy illness. Tennessee is home to two "Jap Tennessee. Thomas Kuwahara of He was 93. Lanes." , CCJR has already been in contact "Once again, we've "In this day and age, 'Jap' is a informing the public of it's dis­ with commissioners in Lawrence seen the passing of racial slur just as the N-word is and paraging nature." County asking for a renaming of the one of our major fig­ it should not be used anywhere in Members of the Committee to roads. ures from the past," the United States," she said. "All Change Jap Road (CCJR) agree "I see it this way ... if you don't said JACL Executive Americans should be treated with with Tateishi and plan to forge repair a broken window, then it is Director John Tateishi. the same respect and honor." more likely that other windows will "The death of Pat Tennessee's two "Jap Lanes" are Orange County, be broken," said Kuwahara. "In the Okura, while not The Okuras at the 1988 JACL Nat'l Convention. in Lawrence County in the cities of . worst case, another Vrncent Chin," Ethridge and Lawrenceburg. Both Texas to Decide he continued, referring to the brutal cities are small and Caucasians racial murder of Chin in the state of make up 98.9 percent of the popula­ New Name Michigan. Membership tion in Ethridge and 93.3 percent in By CAROLINE AOYAGI But so far, Lawrence County Lawrenceburg. The city of Ethridge Executive Editor Commissioners have indicated they Challenge has no Asian Americans while will not be renaming any of . the By EDWIN ENDOW Lawrenceburg has an AA popula- . Residents of "Jap Lane" in roads. JACL v.P. of Membership tion of 0.4 percent. Orange County, Texas met Jan. 18 "It'll remain the same," said These numbers may make it more to decide on a new name for the Commissioner Delano Benefield, The JACL needs your help in fac­ difficult to sway a change in these road but could not come to a con­ whose . district includes Ethridge. ing our areas. The city of Ethridge has lived sensus. They now have until the ''The people who live on [the road] biggest, most with "Jap Lane" for 75 years and end of February to come to a deci­ have no trouble with it. The county crucial chal­ traces the two-mile road's origins to sion. has no trouble with it." lenge: increas­ a man named Jap Holland for whom Although Orange County He noted that only about four or ing our mem­ the road was named after. Commissioners voted to rename five families currently live on bership. "Frankly, I don't care if a town the controversial road late last Ethridge's "Jap Lane" and "out of And we has five or five hundred people in it. year, it is still taking a while to respect for [Jap Holland's] family have a plan. It If it has a geographical marker of choose a name that will be accept­ who still lives on the road" the involves hav­ some kind - a road name, a moun­ able to both the Japanese County will not be changing the ing each of you get ONE person to tain name, or whatever - we need name of the road. to do what we can to get it . See MEMBERSHIP/page 3 See TEXAS/page 2 See TENNESSEE/page 2 I . 2 NA110NAL/LETTERS PACIFIC CITIZEN, FEB. 4-17, 2005 urging of APAs and APA lawmakers. taken the extraordinary steps it has to HOT 97 FM express regret and to apologize to the HOT f17 FM's Controversial PACIFIC CmZEN (Continued from page 1) A Checkered Past . community," said Kate Healy, Emmis Lyrics HOT 97 FM is no stranger to con­ Communications director of media All at once you could hear the 97 FM's parent company, also issued 7 Cupania Circle, . troversy. In 2001, morning hosts Star and investor relations. screaming chinks Monterey Park, CA 91755 an official apology, but as listeners and- Bucwild were suspended for And no one was safe from the wave continued to inundate the radio sta­ Tel: 3231725-0083, mocking R&B singer Aaliyah's death The Fight Continues There were Africans drowning tion, its sponsors and the Federal Little Chinamen swept away 800/966-6157, Fax: in a plane crash. P. e. staff also uncov­ Many listeners and APA groups, Communications Commission (FCC) You could hear God laughing, 'Swim 3231725-0064 ered Jones' checkered past. Jones however, were not satisfied with the E-mail: [email protected] . with angry calls, letters and e-mails, you bitches, swim' (Tarsha Nicole Jones) was fired from initial apology and continue to mount [email protected] HOT 97 FM finally announced that it Philadelphia's WPlll-FM (103.9 the protest campaigns.
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