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“Dumas joked that Indians are “lazy” and that “a lot of Indians live on the reservation.” He also asked whether the groom’s grandfather would stand on the side of the road “with a single tear.” “
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“Vandals have desecrated 148 Muslim graves in France’s biggest WWI cemetery, officials have said.”
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“As tipster Juditha wrote, there certainly is a cultural difference with how female flight attendants (and really, all females) are perceived in Asian culture. But. Still. If the airline keeps running ads in this vein (sorry!), their male passengers are are not going to stop at unbuckling just their seat belts.”
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“A lot of people are talking about Vincent Who?, a documentary film directed by Tony Lam and produced by Curtis Chin, about the historic Vincent Chin hate crime case and its impact on our community.”
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” “I’m Still Here” features Elijah Wood, Ryan Gosling … as they share stories from the diaries of young people who experienced firsthand the terror of daily life during the Holocaust”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Torontonian wrote:
Young Asian Americans are not going to remember Vincent Chin if he is not remembered by mainstream America.
Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 6:40 am ¶
Fatemeh wrote:
Wow. Defacement of graves of people who were fighting FOR France during WWII, just because they happened to be Muslim. That’s pretty disgusting.
Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 12:33 pm ¶
marge twain wrote:
Native Americans aren’t the only ones angry about Bob Dumas. G-105 doesn’t give a shit about Lumbees, Black Americans, Hispanics, gay people or women, othewise they would have fired this all-”round bigot 15 years ago. I hate fake apologies.
He used to call Fantasia Barrino “ghetto” and said one morning that Halle Berry has no business calling herself black when she’s mixed. He organized a straight pride parade once(even though every day is straight pride day) Bob likes to bring on self hating black people to validate his worldview, and he thinks it’s all ok if he calls white people “honkys” I guess it got too vitriolic for his old sidekick Madison, a black woman. She’s on another station in NC now, splitting after creative differences or something.
Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 12:54 pm ¶
Mary wrote:
Oh boy, as a resident of the G-105 listening area, I remember when it was Bob & Madison. Even back in 7th grade I thought that guy was a royal D-bag. The “straight pride parade” and now this have only proven I was wise beyond my years.
Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 1:44 pm ¶
Aaron wrote:
Wow. This Bob Dumas guy sounds like a real winner…
It’s interesting though that Iron Eyes Cody, the “crying indian” Dumas alludes to was born to Italian parents. He moved to Hollywood to become an actor, and I guess thought it would be easier to get work if he passed himself off as a Native American. To his credit though, he seems to have truly tried to immerse himself in Native culture, even after his heritage became known, so perhaps he didn’t appropriate a Native identity solely for selfish reasons.
It’s also interesting to look at Hollywood today, and then. “Ethnic” parts are still played by whatever “ethnic” looking actors are available, regardless of their race or ethnicity.
Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 2:11 pm ¶
Naomi wrote:
“A lot of Indians live on the reservation”….is that a put-down, or is he just a fan of the completely obvious?
I realize that I’m an urban Indian, but I never questioned that reservations were largely Indian, since they are, you know, INDIAN Reservations.
Sigh.
Posted 08 Apr 2008 at 11:59 am ¶
lumbeelady wrote:
I appreciate those of you whom support what we are doing to get rid of the hate monger spoiling our airwaves! We ask that anyone who supports us join the Facebook group G105 Offends and join the fight!
Posted 09 Apr 2008 at 7:01 pm ¶