A recent mailer from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party features a Kamala Harris endorsement from a local Hispanic radio host who has a history of making wildly racist comments.
The host is also the star of a Harris campaign ad running in Philadelphia, Allentown and Reading.
The mailer shows Victor Martinez, owner of La Mega radio in the majority-Latino city of Allentown, offering his support for Harris as a candidate who “listens.”
But Martinez’s own listeners will remember his May 2021 on-air tirade about black tourists visiting Puerto Rico.
Speaking in Spanish to his audience on the El Relajo de la Mañana morning show, Martinez claimed a “wave of African Americans” had descended on the island.
“When I got [on] the plane, I thought I was flying to Jamaica,” Martinez said, suggesting the tourists also must have thought they were going to Jamaica or New Orleans. “The plane was full of African [Americans]!”
Martinez’s rant — which reached thousands in Pennsylvania’s Latino belt of Allentown, Reading and Hazleton — decried female tourists for “acting up” in various ways.
According to Martinez, the women’s behavior included: “walking almost naked,” “fighting with police,” “jumping [on] the roof of cars,” “destroying the [hotel] rooms” and smoking marijuana and drinking Hennessy in the street.
“[It] is not like is a cheap vacation for them,” he continued. “Then they buy the Hennessy, put it in their purse, and in the street they start drinking.” --->READ MORE HEREHoward Stern blackface performance resurfaces ahead of shock jock’s Kamala Harris interview
A revolting sketch in which shock jock Howard Stern performed in blackface and repeatedly used racial slurs has resurfaced ahead of Stern’s Tuesday sitdown with Vice President Kamala Harris.
In video from a 1993 New Year’s Eve pay-per-view special, Stern appears in dark makeup with exaggerated white lips while rattling off a series of racist jokes.
The sketch was meant to mock actor Ted Danson’s crude blackface performance earlier the same year at the Friar’s Club roast of his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg.
In a 90-second clip reposted by former first son Donald Trump Jr., Stern used the n-word five times.
“WTF!?!?” Trump Jr., whose father has been a frequent Stern guest and attended the radio star’s 2008 wedding to wife Beth, reacted to the video.
Stern has previously expressed regret over the sketch, addressing the controversy during an episode of his SiriusXM radio show in June 2020 following public outcry over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
“The s–t I did was f–ing crazy, I’ll be the first to admit,” Stern said at the time. “I won’t go back and watch those old shows; it’s like, who is that guy?” --->READ MORE HERE
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