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...wasn't enough for Geoffrey C. Upton to complain about Boston's "White" station, Kiss 108; now we have Jal D. Mehta spouting about Boston's "black" station, Jam'n 94.5 (Opinion, Jan. 25). Both writers seem to agree that each of these stations represents a lack of "integration" in Boston's radio market that reflects a corresponding lack of integration in Boston's social world...
...nearly four years now--and working at one, Harvard's own WHRB 95.3 FM--and I have to say that if the only stations that your writers listen to are Jam'n 94.5 and Kiss 108, then they probably don't have a clue about the Boston radio scene. Upton is mad that Kiss 108 doesn't play enough "black" music; Mehta cries that Jam'n isn't serving as the "sounding board for black concerns to suburban white listeners" that it would be, while WILD (which was supposedly a great "sounding board" in the 1960s) is too small...
...assumption of your writers that radio should play "black music" to teach white people a lesson or two. And excuse me for pointing out that both of your writers seem to look at their home cities--suburban Baltimore for Mehta and somewhere in the New York area for Upton--as the standard-bearers of racial integration and harmony, while claiming that Boston is a backward, segregated, parochial city...
Geoffrey C. Upton '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...concerned about the doctors' right to life, and we urge the court to consider seriously the line between political speech, which the rest of the site is, and violating the law. Jenny E. Heller '01, Adam S. Hickey '99, Caille M. Millner '01, James Y. Stern '01, Geoffrey C. Upton...