City politicians and representatives of the Asian-American community attacked the hip-hop radio station Hot 97 yesterday for airing a parody song that used racial slurs to mock victims of last month’s Indian Ocean tsunami.

The song, set to the tune of the 1980s humanitarian anthem “We Are The World,” was broadcast on the station’s morning show several times last week before it was pulled in response to listener complaints.

Yesterday, members of the City Council, the Organization of Chinese Americans, and Asian Media Watch demanded that the Federal Communication Commission take immediate action and called on the radio station to overhaul its standards.

Several council members also called for the morning-radio personality with the on-air name Miss Jones, who played the song, to be fired; for advertisers to pull their sponsorship, and for the station’s parent company, Emmis Communications, to donate to the tsunami relief effort.

“It is sick to be broadcasting comments about ‘screaming chinks’ and ‘little Chinamen’ being swept away,” a Queens member of the council, John Liu, said. Mr. Liu represents Flushing, a mostly Chinese and Korean area.

“If the FCC can impose heavy penalties on a TV station for inadvertently having a quote wardrobe malfunction,” he said, in a reference to the performance at last year’s Super Bowl in which one of Janet Jackson’s breasts was exposed, “it can certainly take some kind of action in this case.”

During a news conference on the steps of City Hall, Mr. Liu played a taped version of the song on a black boom box as his colleagues looked on.

“It’s a disgrace to all humanity,” Council Member Robert Jackson said just after the song played. “They dreamed up this hatred and racist words in order to be funny? Well, no one is laughing. In fact, everyone I know is outraged.”

“It’s not funny,” he said, his voice rising. “It’s sad and you’re sick.”

The station, which is on the FM dial, posted an apology on its Web site last week.”HOT97 regrets the airing of material that made light of a serious and tragic event,” it said.

The statement goes on to say that Miss Jones and the program director made on-air apologies Monday, and it promises to make a “substantial cash donation” to the relief effort in Southeast Asia.

“HOT97 takes pride in its community involvement and in the last few weeks has joined with broadcasters nationwide to raise money for victims of the Tsunami. Our relief effort will result in a substantial cash donation,” the statement said. When called to elaborate yesterday, station personnel sent an e-mail of the same statement to The New York Sun. It did not say whether anyone would be fired.

Mr. Liu said he had been told that those directly involved pledged to donate a week’s salary to the relief effort. He said that he would hold them to the pledge, but that a larger response from the company was needed.

The Asian Media Watch, a nonprofit organization devoted to ensuring a fair portrayal of Asian-Americans, posted a link on its Web site to both the song and the broadcast leading up to one of the airings, in which the morning show’s cohost, Todd Lynn, also says: “I’m gonna start shooting Asians.”

A spokeswoman for the FCC declined to comment on the specific case. She said indecency rules apply only to sexually explicit content and do not govern offensive comments unless there is a “clear and present danger.”

Mr. Liu said it was “absolutely indecent.”

“When you call on the radio waves to go out and start shooting members of a certain racial group,” the council member said, “how much more indecent can you possibly get?”

The chairman of the FCC, Michael Powell, announced his resignation Friday. The commission has enforced strict decency standards for broadcasters during his tenure but has come under attack from radio personalities such as Howard Stern, who says the government has no right to define what is too explicit sexually.