WLW Fires Talk Show Host Over Racial Remarks
A northern Kentucky attorney has been fired from his job as a radio talk show host after he made racially insensitive remarks last week in a video blog.
Eric Deters posted a homemade video of himself on Facebook saying that “if you want to conquer an African nation, send white women and pot.”
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WLW-AM told Deters on Tuesday that he would no longer work for the station as a weekend and substitute talk show host and removed his blog from the station’s website.
“If you want to know why I won’t be on the radio anymore, I don’t know. LOL,” Deters said in a statement. “I was not given a reason. I suppose we can all assume it was the video blog where I made a joke.”
Deters justified his statement on the video by saying that he had many black friends and clients, and noted that every black man who played on his flag football team shared some traits.
“This is just calling it straight, okay? No political correctness,” Deters said. “Almost every — the hell with that — every black guy on my flag football team went out with, lived with or was married to a white woman and smoked pot. I just want you to know that I understand black culture.”
The attorney said after he was criticized for the comments that the video shouldn’t have been put online and was a joke he’s made with friends on his flag football team.
Deters shoots a series of video blogs each week, five to 10 at a time, and they are posted each day.
After shooting, Deters said he told his video assistant that they shouldn’t post the one explaining a possible strategic weakness among African nations, but the video was sent to Deters’ Web technician.
Deters was a frequent caller on Bill Cunningham’s WLW talk show and later hosted a program of his own from 9 p.m. to midnight before cutting back to weekends only earlier this year.
He also filled in for Cunningham during his noon to 3 p.m. program.
Deters said he objected to a newspaper report referring to a “firestorm” of controversy over his remarks in the video, adding that the local NAACP chapter had accepted an apology from him.
“I’m unaware of any groups or organizations making a big deal out of it,” Deters said in the statement. “Now that I’m liberated from the bonds, I can speak more frankly It’s hypocritical that the corporate “white” media would be upset with someone like me who can walk the walk and talk the talk for making a honest observation about my young black friends. The joke may have gone too far, but give me a break.”
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