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wlotus24 October 2009
Mr. Barry Mayo, General Manager
WRKS - 98.7 KISS FM
395 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
Dear Mr. Mayo:
I was horrified to just hear a discriminatory message on your radio station from the National Organization for Marriage. How could you allow this group to buy air time to feed their hate speech to our community, a community which ought to be all too familiar with the alienation caused by groups that wish to deny minority groups their civil rights? If your bottom line is so important that you will turn a blind eye to their message of exclusion, whose exclusionary message will be next: that of the Ku Klux Klan?
When I interact with young people I instruct them to respect all people, regardless of their race, gender, age, socioeconomic status, religion, or sexual orientation. Some of those same young people religiously listen to your station. By allowing a hate group to buy air time on your station--any group that teaches the exclusion of others and promotes denying them their civil rights is a hate group, no matter what they call themselves--you are undoing the good work I and many other concerned adults are doing with our youth. I do not appreciate you making my work more difficult than it already is. Therefore, I will have to think long and hard about whether I and my family (and our friends and their families) will continue to listen to your station and frequent the businesses who advertise thereon.
Sincerely,
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wlotus
Mr. Barry Mayo, General Manager
WRKS - 98.7 KISS FM
395 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
Dear Mr. Mayo:
I was horrified to just hear a discriminatory message on your radio station from the National Organization for Marriage. How could you allow this group to buy air time to feed their hate speech to our community, a community which ought to be all too familiar with the alienation caused by groups that wish to deny minority groups their civil rights? If your bottom line is so important that you will turn a blind eye to their message of exclusion, whose exclusionary message will be next: that of the Ku Klux Klan?
When I interact with young people I instruct them to respect all people, regardless of their race, gender, age, socioeconomic status, religion, or sexual orientation. Some of those same young people religiously listen to your station. By allowing a hate group to buy air time on your station--any group that teaches the exclusion of others and promotes denying them their civil rights is a hate group, no matter what they call themselves--you are undoing the good work I and many other concerned adults are doing with our youth. I do not appreciate you making my work more difficult than it already is. Therefore, I will have to think long and hard about whether I and my family (and our friends and their families) will continue to listen to your station and frequent the businesses who advertise thereon.
Sincerely,
wlotus
