Twin Cities KQRS Shock Jocks under fire by American Indian Communities

Indian leaders from the Red Lake Indian reservation, American Indian Movement, and the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors will meet with company executives of CITADEL corporation to address issues related to alleged derogatory, and racist broadcasts aired in September on the twin cities rock station KQRS.

Red Lake maintains that Shock Jock Tom Barnard, and other KQRS morning show staff suggested in their morning show broadcast that incest, and genetics were contributors to high rates of teen suicide in Northwest Minnesota’s Beltrami County of which the Red Lake Indian reservation is located.

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community was also included in the broadcast, and portrayed as a rich Indian tribe that does nothing to help northern Minnesota tribes curb issues such as teen suicide, and sexual misconduct.

The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians has received nearly 4 million dollars in Grants from the Shakopee tribe since 2004 to build a new Boys& Girls Club on the reservation, start a sexual assault center in the neighboring city of Bemidji, and to assist in the start up of the Red Lake walleye fishing industry.

It is uncertain what Tribal leaders will be asking for when they meet with the owners of KQRS at its southeast Minneapolis corporate headquarters at 2000 S.E. Elm st, on Monday October, 30 at 10:00 am.

In April New York city shock jock Don Imus was fired by CBS from his radio program after he made derogatory comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team by calling them”nappy headed ho’s.”