Posted on 08/02/2007 7:16:47 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Cox Radio Possible Racist Remarks Spark Fury:
It wasn’t tough enough for Judy Collins and Sam Moore, two famous and popular singers, to testify in front of a Congressional committee on Tuesday about the need for a performance royalty on radio stations. (Singers on hit records aren’t paid when a record is played on the radio; only the writers are.)
Now Robert Neil, the head of Cox Radio, which owns 80 stations in 18 markets, has infuriated them with what some consider to be racist remarks regarding their right to earn a living. And R&B legend Moore, for one, is demanding that he be fired.
Neil said: "I saw the (congressional) testimony yesterday, and the reality is a lot of those people would be sitting in a shack somewhere in a small town if it wasn't for the fact that radio supported their music when it was coming up.”
Moore is furious. He feels the term “those people” is pejorative. At first he wanted an apology. Now he wants Neil's head. Cox Radio owns R&B stations and oldies stations that Moore says have made their money from black artists for 40 years.
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But doesn’t deny the main point in the statement, interesting eh?
“...those people...” wouldn’t by chance be referring to artistic types, ie. none-business types? Nah, lets make race an issue instead! ;-/ Who is the real racist here?
PC police report to aisle 6
I love people who don’t look for racial offense at every turn.
I’m still getting used to Lesley Gore being gay. Now Judy Collins is black?
I have to start writing things down.
He could very well be talking about Brittany Spears... who may be headed back there anyway.
It seems the word “people” has become a racist slur now.
Well, I’m afraid this will be a black mark on Mr. Neil’s resume...;)
I thought he was being nasty, elitist and condescending to artists in general, not to one race.
Lesley Gore? Are you joking?
I thought that name was familiar, but I was thinking of a white singer.
and Sam Moore
Never heard of him. I googled Sam.Moore and turned up a furniture company that makes chairs. The picture on the site looked like a white guy. http://www.sammoore.com/SamMoore.htm
“Moore is furious. He feels the term “those people” is pejorative. At first he wanted an apology. Now he wants Neil’s head. Cox Radio owns R&B stations and oldies stations that Moore says have made their money from black artists for 40 years.”
Elvis and Springsteen are black? I didn’t know that.
No. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV7T6KCMosE
Here’s Judy Collins on the Smothers Bros. show singing “Someday Soon.”
Kentucky Rain, Suspicious Minds, Little Less Conversation, Rubbernecking, In the Ghetto, all by Elvis...there were many more.
When a Man Loves a Woman..Percy Sledge
Cry Like A BabyThe Box Tops
Half Breed by Cher
The Concert For Bangladesh..various artists (Clapton, Harrison et al)
Leedo Shuffle
She also backed up Albert King, Al Green, Cowboy Clement, and many others. Amazing that she is living in poverty nowadays.
That's because they do not understand how language works.
Sometimes "those people" means "the people who are the topic of this discussion".
Oh, yeah, one more thing ~ the leftwingards are too mentally burned out to be able to think more than two steps ahead. So they hear the words "those people", think "race", and leap to the conclusion "that means me".
All of this proves that modern drug treatment programs don't work.
A shoulder looking for a chip. An ego looking for a wounded feeling.
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