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Ayinde
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« on: January 18, 2005, 02:24:43 PM »

Some people are really saying this was slip of the tongue.

Read on....

--Ayinde

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ON-AIR REMARK: Activists condemn racial slur

Blair, the station's weekend weather forecaster, was delivering the extended forecast early Saturday when he said, "For tomorrow, 60 degrees, Martin Luther Coon King Jr. Day, gonna see some temperatures in the mid-60s."

"I don't think it was slip of the tongue, no way," said Gene Collins, director of the Las Vegas branch of National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton. "I think (Blair) felt he could say it and get away with it by just saying he's sorry. Sorry isn't going to cut it. I think the station should be commended for doing the right thing and dismissing him."

Full Article @ reviewjournal.com
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