This is supposed to be New York, the world capital of diversity, the home to countless cultures and creeds, the one place you can go — whoever you happen to be — to find a sympathetic ear for your beliefs, maybe even a parade in your honor.

But then you turn on the radio and listen to the Big Apple’s favorite shock jocks spouting off about “gooks,” “slant-eyed whores,” and “tinkling” on little girls.

Troi Torain, the Power 105 disc jockey known as DJ Star, was arrested today after going on a racist, sexist, R. Kelly-esque tirade about a radio rival’s wife and daughter. He called the wife, who is part Asian, a “slant-eyed whore,” and then threatened the 4-year-old daughter, calling her a “little half a lo mein eater” and saying he wanted to have sex with her.

Covering all his bases, Torain also called his rival, DJ Envy, a “faggot ass nigga.”

I suppose one racist turn deserves another. You see, DJ Envy was one of the “Miss Jones in the Morning” crew at Hot 97 who got in trouble last year for playing a song that mocked the victims of the Asian tsunami, whom they called “chinks” and “Chinamen.” Without a doubt, this kind of behavior is normal for morning radio personalities, who apparently must caffeinate themselves to the point of foaming-at-the-mouth racism and sexism.

Torain especially. In 2004 he phoned a call center in India and called the customer service representative a “bitch” and “filthy rat eater” on the air.

Here’s some excerpts from the “Star & Buc Wild” show on the day that Torain had his pedophilic meltdown, courtesy of the office of New York Councilmember John Liu:

Star: Somebody holla at me and tell me about his whore wife and his kid. 866-678-8270 …  Somebody get at me about his whore. His whore wife and his kid, this little ugly ass kid, I hear. Where … where does this kid go to school? I got five hundred bucks for that information. Somebody email me or gimme a call. Just tell me where his kid goes to school. Let’s see who’s really gully on the microphone. Five hundred dollars, in my pocket, right now. I need to know the school, this faggot ass nigga, DJ’s kid goes to school.

Star: I’ve got information on DJ Benji, aka … what’s his name again? Envy. I’ve got information on his gook. His baby’s mother.
Buc Wild: A gook?
Star: Hampton University, uh, cats used to run trains on her. Green BMW … I’ll get to all this in a few minutes.

Star: Oh! And, I got the information, the school his kid goes to.
[Woman’s voice] Really?
Star: Yeah, I’m savin’ that one. That’s, that’s … That’s the one I’m gonna pull out if I have to. If I have to. Oh yes, I’ll, I’ll come for your kids. I will come for your kids. I finally got the information on his slant-eyed, whore wife. The information on his slant-eyed, whore wife. Yes. A cat who actually ran a train on her, contacted me. [chuckle] Allegedly ran a train on her once upon a time. Allegedly. Once upon a time. Ejaculated all over her face …

Star: No, let me just touch on this real quick. But there’s a woman out there right now who pushed out a little lo-mein eater by a DJ down by the sloppy station. I got at this alleged slut whore, heh, and this little half a lo-mein eater … Yes, I disrespected your seed. If you didn’t hear me, I said, I would like to do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle [urinate] on her.

“Call the cops”? Nigga, please, there’s no bodyguards. I carry the 9 [millimeter gun]. Most of the cats that are with me, have felony convictions, they can’t carry. I’m disrespectin’ your seed. I would like to skeet [ejaculate] on the face of your seed. Now that’s, that’s real talk dawg. You have to come holla at me now. Call me, I’ll meet you somewhere, but don’t act like you were waiting in some parking lot with like 50 niggers. Please.

Now, again, to the woman, who carried that little mongrel for 9 months … I’m coming for your seed. Did you hear me? [“squirt, squirt, squirt” noise] I want to do an R. Kelly in the mouth of your seed fam[ily]? You holla at me now, I’m the easiest man in the world to find. [snickers] And my name is The Hater. You holla back now, DJ Envy.

Star: Let me see now, uh, DJ Benji attention! In case you didn’t hear me, I said, I want to put some mayonnaise in between your baby girl’s ass crack and take a bite.

Now that you’ve read all of that, you might consider taking a long shower and then listening to the soothing sounds of NPR to purify yourself.

Victor Tan Chen Victor Tan Chen is In The Fray's editor in chief and the author of Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy. Site: victortanchen.com | Facebook | Twitter: @victortanchen