Black Hoes screw Disney, trample free speech

[David Honig]

Disney to Settle Racial Bias Suit Over
                                          Radio Gag 

                                          By CHUCK PHILIPS, Times Staff Writer


                                               Walt Disney Co. has agreed
to pay $2
                                          million to a former employee to
settle a
                                          racial discrimination lawsuit
stemming
                                          from its involvement in a radio
promotion
                                          called "The Black Hoe." 
                                               The action comes barely a
year after
                                          Disney blasted the suit as
meritless and
                                          vowed to fight it in court. 
                                               The suit, filed by a black
former
                                          employee named Judy Goodwin,
followed
                                          a promotion on KLOS-FM's "Mark &
                                          Brian Show," during which "Black
                                          Hoes"--black, plastic gardening
                                          tools--were given away as gag
prizes to
                                          listeners and advertisers by the
                                          Disney-owned station. 
                                               In her suit, filed Aug. 6,
1999, in Los
                                          Angeles Superior Court, the KLOS-FM
                                          traffic controller contended that
Disney
                                          and ABC violated anti-discrimination
                                          laws by airing a "racist and
sexually
                                          degrading" promotion that was
built upon
                                          a double-entendre involving a slang
                                          pronunciation of the word "whore." 


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But that's *ebonics*!  

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