The San Francisco Giants' flagship radio station fired controversial talk-show host Larry Krueger and two station officials Tuesday night, six days after Krueger ranted about the Giants' struggles during his postgame radio show. Krueger said San Francisco has too many "brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly."
I commend KNBR.
Krueger is the same guy who questioned Dusty Baker's intellectual capacity when he was coaching the Giants.
He was bound to slip eventually.
Some people will say that this is "political correctness" going too far, the guy made a mistake, give him another chance...to do what, disparage more people?
I say, no one gives a d*mn what you say when you're hanging out at your private country club, or in your own home, or at your local klavern meeting, but when you're in the public eye, speaking from a bully pulpit to millions of people, think twice before sharing your half-baked cultural theories.
In this particular case, so-called Caribbean people, like me, are patrons of KNBR, and they don't need to be insulted like this.
Clearly, this is a business move on KNBR's part; they have to be worried about keeping their audience and sponsors.
It doesn't matter why they made the move, but just that they did; things like this can't be tolerated.
It's the only way to chase the cancer of racism from civilized public discourse.
I've already granted that it will continue to exist in private circles, but so be that; the measure of a society is how it functions in the public sphere.
For Krueger there's always right-wing radio; Limbaugh needs a sidekick.