Tony Massarotti faces suspension and potential cancellation after making racially insensitive jokes about Black men stealing cars on a Boston sports radio show. While the host defends his remarks as logical reactions to crime rather than inherent racism, comparing them to post-9/11 fears, the incident highlights dangerous generalizations. Despite his apology for the widely recorded broadcast, the controversy underscores how quickly such comments can escalate, challenging listeners to distinguish between perceived logic and harmful prejudice in a city with a complex racial history. [Automatically generated summary]
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Names That Sound Like Pasta00:08:00
Yeah, I got a new show for y'all.
Got a damn good show.
Damn good show.
Yeah.
So it's this guy.
I think he's Italian.
His name is Maserati.
He's up in Boston.
That sounds like some kind of pasta or something.
Have you noticed that about Italians?
Names sound like pasta.
Like some kind of like Rigatoni.
What's your name?
My name is Tony Rigatoni.
I'm the bar boss up here.
What's your middle name?
Spaghetti.
What's your nickname?
Meatball.
See, that was racial insensitive.
That was racially insensitive.
I apologize.
Fuck no.
I think we got to start over, man.
He's starting shit over.
What's wrong with you?
You're going to start sensing yourself?
So, Tony Maserati, he's a...
He's in hot water.
Yeah, he's a sports radio talk guy.
Yeah.
And he made some racially insensitive remarks about these couple niggas sitting behind this.
So let me give y'all some.
Let me give y'all some backstory on this.
Oh, man.
So they're doing this radio podcast thing, right?
Tony Boston.
They're talking sports, right?
Yeah.
Tony Maserati, right?
They're talking sports, right?
Yeah.
And one of the guys on the podcast radio show with him, he's in New Orleans.
He's doing the show remotely, right?
He's doing it.
He's being all ghetto about his stuff.
I think he was in the lobby, huh?
Yeah, he was in the lobby of a hotel in New Orleans.
Now, in New Orleans, I think that place is 80% black.
Every time I go, that's all you see.
I'd be 90% black.
Yeah, it's a Chocolate City, man.
Yeah, man.
So he's sitting in the lobby, and then Tony Maserati says some racist shit.
Well, it's not racist.
It's racially insensitive.
It was racially insensitive.
Yeah, like what I say, it was racial insensitive.
You know, it's racially insensitive.
Even though a lot of that shit is true, a lot of times got nicknames meatball, you know.
What?
Meatball.
Ain't nobody got no nickname meatball.
I mean, every culture, every race, every ethnicity got some racially insensitive nicknames.
Oh, I see.
Look what black people call each other.
They call each other the N-word 24-7.
What's up, nigga?
Man, I'm doing all right, nigga.
Man, I'm just over here being a nigga.
So he said, well, look at gay people.
They call themselves the F-word all the time.
Okay, let's keep it about.
I'm just trying to make a point, man.
All right, that's cool.
It's only offensive when you're not included in that group.
Okay.
You see what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Just laying down some groundwork.
Okay, so his friend is doing the show remotely in New Orleans, and there's a couple black guys sitting in the back.
And then what got Tony in trouble is what he said.
Check it out.
Yeah, I want to know now who the two guys behind you are.
That's what I look at.
Because if I were you, I'll be off in two minutes.
I'm just doing, I got just, if I'm too loud, just let me know.
Honestly.
They can't do more minutes.
They can't hear us, right?
No, not you.
Okay, no, sir.
I would be careful if I were you because the last time you were on a couple of guys like that, they stole your car.
There's Chris in Boston.
Glad Crest.
Hey, what's going on, guys?
I want to talk about Mr. Oh my God.
I can't believe he just said it.
Hold up that image again.
Look at the guy that said he's so proud of himself.
The other guy that's with him.
The dude that he made the joke to, he's disgusted.
He's like, look at his reaction one more time.
Go back a little bit.
Yeah.
Watch what he says.
Look at the guy he says it to.
What?
Okay.
Too loud.
Just let me know.
Honestly.
They can't do more minutes.
They can't hear us, right?
No, not you.
Okay, no, sir.
I would be careful if I were you because the last time you were on a couple of guys like that, they stole your car.
There's Chris in Boston.
Glad Crest.
Hey, what's going on, guys?
I want to talk about Mr. See how proud of himself he was.
Bring his pitch up, but he's laughing again.
He thinks this shit's so funny he's about to bite his lip off.
He's like, I got off a good one right now.
Well, okay, look, how the okay, let me say this.
You know what's going on, Keith?
They're in a hotel.
You know how you, in every hotel, they got like a business center where you can go online, use a computer.
That's where he's at.
Who gives a shit?
That nigga in the back is probably waiting for the computer.
No, that nigga's waiting for him to go outside.
According to Tony Maserati.
Yeah.
But so let me say this.
Okay, it's racially insensitive.
But what I want to say this: why do he make that observation about that?
Because something happened to his friend.
That's how racism starts.
Yeah.
You see what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Like, give the example.
Let's say you take an old lady walking up and down the street, right?
She's 80 years old.
She got a purse.
A couple niggas come up, rob her, take a purse, and push it on the street.
Yeah.
All right, next time she walked down the street, she's going to see if she sees some black people.
Oh, say the Harsh Twins is walking up.
Even if it was just us walking up, right?
She's like, oh, hold up.
It's a couple more.
That's how racism starts.
Yeah, like if I go in the club and I get jumped by a bunch of white men, shaved heads.
Yeah.
They're not even skinny as they got shaved heads and they beat the shit out of me, right?
Yeah.
Next time I'm out and about and I see a bunch of white guys with shaved heads.
What's the first thing that's going to pop my mind?
What's the first thing that's I'm going to just gonna oh shit, here we go again.
More skinheads.
They bought the big shit out of me again.
I remember I was a kid.
I was probably about what, nine, ten, ten years old.
I grew up in Marnesville, Virginia.
It's a rural era.
I remember that.
Right?
And walking up the street and this damn old pickup pulled up.
A couple guys sitting there with mullets.
They threw like Peps Blue Ribbon Birchheads at me and told me to say the street.
That ain't funny, man.
That shit ain't funny.
But later on, like whenever I go walking somewhere and I see a damn truck coming over the damn fucked up mufflers, I would think, oh, here we go again.
Yeah.
You know?
It's human nature, man.
It's human nature.
I mean, how many times does somebody from a particular race guy do something to you before you be like, hold on, I'm starting to catch on to this shit?
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
And it's not being racist.
It's being logical.
I mean, my problem is.
It's logical.
Yeah, I agree with you, but it's racial and system.
Yeah, it's racial and system.
My problem is this.
Why you say this live on air?
Yeah.
I mean, are you that damn stupid?
Yeah, I would say this.
Do you know the political climate we're living in right now?
You can't make any.
I mean, even though you may have been.
Fucking.
Well, you do the Jewish people, they call it anti-Semitic, right?
Anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism.
He's generalizing a group of people because of something bad happened.
That's just stupid.
That's ignorant.
That's wrong.
It's a normal reaction, though.
Yeah, it's a normal reaction.
It's like when 9-11 happened, what happened?
Anybody got on a plane that looked like those people that did that from that part of the world?
Excuse me.
Shut up.
Don't say it.
I like to change my flight.
I like to change my plight.
Yeah, you got another flight?
Yeah.
Well, tomorrow morning, that's cool.
I'll wait.
I'm not getting on that plane.
I mean, but that was a normal reaction.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a human reaction.
It's a human reaction.
So if his friend turns out he got robbed by a couple of black guys for his car, I mean, it was wrong for me to do that.
You putting that message out there on live radio.
If you're just joking amongst friends, we all do it.
I do it.
You do it.
We all do it.
Democrats do it.
Republicans do it all the time, but you can't put that type of message out there on the air because people are just too sensitive.
Because you could, if you do that, you're kind of condoning that kind of behavior.
And that kind of behavior is a behavior.
It's a slippery slope to racism.
Condoning Racist Behavior00:01:44
Just full-fledged racism.
He apologized, though, man.
Yeah, he apologized.
Yeah, I think he's been suspended with no pay.
Yeah, that's good, I guess.
Yeah.
Man, it was crazy.
I mean, he's he, you was, I mean, you laugh so hard.
I mean, you got to have balls the size of watermelons to say that live on air.
Well, and then you laughing so hard like nothing's going to happen to you.
That's the strange thing about it.
Are these got big balls or he's got a small brain?
No, he's got probably a little both.
You're going to say that on national.
I mean, yeah, why?
I mean, you got to be crazy.
You got to be white and to make a racially insensitive joke live on air.
There's video, there's sound, and you got the best quality of sound.
Everybody can hear what you're saying.
And you just right there laughing so hard.
It's like you want to get canceled.
They ain't going to cancel us up in Boston.
I heard Boston man not saying this about Tony.
Yeah.
Probably a cool guy.
Yeah, I heard some stories from black friends.
Black people up in Boston.
Yeah.
And that's a racist area.
Yeah.
He told me he said.
Well, it's not a racist area.
Some people that in the area is racist.
Stop generalizing people.
You do the same thing this Tony Rickett Tony's doing.
Look, he told me that racism, he experienced it in a Boston area.
And he lived in Georgia.
Yeah.
Rural era.
All these white people, converted flags, all these damn pickup trucks.