Extreme Conditions Require Extreme Solutions
Stop Chicago Killer Radio Stations
“Yes, I’m an extremist. The black race is in extremely bad condition. You show me a black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.” Malcolm X
Just last month, a sister simply doing her job delivering mail in an oppressed Chicago neighborhood was shot multiple times. A group led by activist Tio Hardiman introduced bulletproof backpacks to the community as a means to protect our children from gun violence. Just last week, brother Adam Hollingworth, also known as the “Dread Head Cowboy'' rode his horse on a ride down Chicago’s south side Dan Ryan Expressway as a protest against gun violence against children. A horse walked in the middle of a major Chicago freeway.
A couple of initiatives and heinous events that one may consider extreme, yet they bring light to the violence facing our women and children in cities like Chicago.
Bob Pittman, iHeart CEO
As extreme and amazing as they are, we must admit that we are just as amazed nearly every time we tune in to Chicago radio stations WGCI and WPWX and hear extreme and explicit lyrics. Lyrics which are, by the way, outlawed by the Federal Communications Commision (FCC) via their Decency Standards.
Extreme lyrics like, “She s**king on d**k no hands with it,” “cooking up dope with an Uzi, my ni**as is savages ruthless,” “eat the pu**y like a spinach, she'll s**k d**k on the way to the dentist,” “Selling dope, 'till the sun come down,” take a f**k ni**a right off the map,” When I hit him, with this whole hundred rounds” Young joc, in the club, with my Glock.”
We can on and on and on with example after example. As horrific and extreme as these lyrics are, understand that this has been the norm for quite some time on Crawford/Dontron’s Power 92.3, iHeart’s WGCI in Chicago and practically every other radio station in major cities that specifically targets Afrikan children and youth. These are many of the same cities where Afrikans are shooting and killing each other in record numbers, as encouraged and promoted by the disrespectful and dangerous lyrics in the songs that stay in rotation on these stations.
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Donald Crawford, Dontron CEO
It is amazing that these radio stations can get away with broadcasting this blatantly inappropriate content. Amazing in that the immediate aftermath of three teenage sisters shot at 79th Street and the Dan Ryan, WGCI plays two songs in a row with extreme lyrics about shooting you in the face.
It is amazing that on the Monday after over 50 people are shot and eight killed during the last weekend of September 2020, Power 92.3 played back-to-back songs about shooting ni**ers. Including the Number One song of the summer that contains the lyrics: “My Glock told me to promise you gon' squeeze me, you better let me go the day you need me, soon as you up me on that ni**a, get to bustin', and if I ain't enough, go get the chop.”
Amazingly, on the same day that a funeral in Chicago is shot up with 15 victims including 10 women, iHeart’s WGCI broadcasted the song, “Life is Good.” The extreme lyrics include, “I put your face on the news, I put the pu**y on the shirt, after I murk, then man go shoot up the hearse, cost me a quarter bird.” Translation–I killed you, put your image on a t-shirt and your story in the news, then I used drug money to pay to have your funeral shot up.
Unbelievable and amazing that these radio stations would have this level of disrespect for the families of their target audience, that they would play such violent and dangerous music. Especially in light of the dangerous conditions in the community. Even today, it is still amazing that Crawford/Dontron and iHeart being fully aware that their youth oriented stations Power 92.3 and WGCI 107.5 are currently under FCC scrutiny for playing violent, pornographic, drug-laced, and racially insensitive music, are continuing to play violent pornographic, drug-laced racially insensitive music.
These grown violent audio pedophiles who green light this continuous attack on our people via the music we are being programmed to listen to must be stopped immediately.
Our conditions are extreme. It is time for WGCI and WPWX to leave our city. Extreme conditions require extreme solutions. Until we win & even then!