A local Black Lives Matter Group is calling comments made Tuesday by a local radio personality racist.

Kimberly Ray, of Kimberly and Beck on 95.1 FM, was talking about the beating of a woman Saturday night and asked if the black men involved were — in her words — acting “N-word-ly.”

Ray didn’t use the actual N-word, but said “N-wordly.”

This comes ones day after the company that owns 95.1, iHeartRadio, wrote on Twitter: “We believe the only way to drive lasting positive change is for people to come together, respect differences, listen to all voices and foster understanding.”

iHeart Radio officials have not immediately returned a request for comment.

The Kimberly and Beck show is not new to controversy. Back in March, when the coronavirus was just beginning to hit Monroe County — during a segment on if the virus was “overhyped” — Beck said COVID-19 was ““the KKK of diseases,” and then said “white people matter.”

Beck’s comments came after a caller into the show said that deaths related to the virus were mostly white people, and that “very few black people have died from the virus.”

On the contrary, data has showed New York state’s death toll from COVID-19 has been disproportionately high in black and Hispanic communities, especially in New York City.

— ROCHESTER FIRST