Sports Hub discuss present host Tony Massarotti is getting ripped for his “racially-insensitive remarks” about Black individuals sitting behind his 98.5 co-host Mike Felger, warning Felger that they may steal his automotive.
Massarotti, a Herald alum, made the comment concerning the Black individuals behind Felger late in Friday’s “Felger and Mazz” present. Massarotti has been dealing with warmth on social media ever since, and he plans to deal with his remark initially of Monday’s present after the Bruins sport ends.
Felger on Friday was broadcasting remotely from New Orleans, the place his daughter attends school. The loud and animated discuss present host was doing the present in a lodge enterprise service middle the place individuals log onto computer systems, and two Black people had been sitting behind Felger on the time.
“Yeah, I want to know now who the two guys behind you are, that’s what I want to know. Because if I were you …” Massarotti mentioned, as Felger advised the blokes behind him that he’d be off the air in 2 minutes.
“… They can’t hear us, right?” Massarotti then requested Felger, who mentioned the individuals couldn’t hear the hosts broadcasting from Waltham. “OK, so I would be careful if I were you because the last time you were around a couple of guys like that, they stole your car.”
As Massarotti began to crack up following his remark, Felger rapidly moved on to the following caller.
Massarotti, 98.5 and Beasley Media Group didn’t instantly reply to remark from the Herald.
During a earlier journey to New Orleans, Felger had borrowed his dad and mom’ automotive for an evening out downtown. He had parked the automotive at a avenue nook to see if he may get right into a present, however he left the keys within the automotive and a thief stole it.
98.5 co-host Christopher Gasper, who’s Black, ripped into Massarotti on Monday.
“I just recently learned of Mazz’s racially-insensitive remarks on Friday,” Gasper, a Boston Globe columnist, tweeted. “I discovered them deeply disheartening and disappointing. I condemn them. There’s no place for ‘humor’ reinforcing dangerous and hurtful stereotypes about Black males being criminals. I’ve expressed such immediately.
“Felger & Mazz has a powerful platform here and reinforcing these negative stereotypes, even unwittingly and without malice, which I do believe was the case with Mazz, is dangerous,” he added. “It sends a sign to those that genuinely maintain racial animus or prejudice that it’s acceptable. …
“That being said, I’ve known Mazz for over a decade,” Gasper wrote. “While he carelessly misspoke trying to tweak Felger about a car theft that actually happened to Felgie in New Orleans, he knows what he said is wrong. It was not his intent. It’s also not consistent with his character as a man… Folks make mistakes talking on air extemporaneously for 4 hours daily. I have. There’s a difference between consistently and intentionally expressing racist ideas on air and making an unfortunate remark. I know an in poor taste joke isn’t who Mazz is at all. He’s still a friend.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”