I'm working on this right now. Check back later . I'm trying to get my thoughts together on this. I hope I don't offend anyone when I express my views on certain issues. In the mean time see this email below my fellow readers and please let your voice be heard. We are tomorrows leaders.
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Dear Friends,
Right now, Fox News is trying to paint Barack Obama as foreign, un-American, suspicious, and scary. They're trying to send Americans the message that our country's first viable Black candidate for President is not "one of us."
I've joined on to ColorOfChange.org's campaign to push back on Fox, publicly demanding they stop their race-baiting and fear mongering. If that doesn't work, then we'll go to their advertisers and the FCC. I wanted to invite you to sign on as well. It takes only a moment:
http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2162-426430
Here's what happened recently:
After Senator Obama won the nomination, he and his wife gave each other a "pound" in front of the cameras. Fox anchor E.D. Hill called the act of celebration a "terrorist fist jab." Then last week, a Fox News on-screen graphic referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama"--slang used to describe the unmarried mother of a man's child. It was a clear attempt to associate the Obamas with negative cultural stereotypes about Black people, an insult not only to Michelle Obama but to women and Black people everywhere.
After each of the incidents mentioned, Fox issued some form of weak apology. But what does it mean when you slap someone in the face, apologize the next day, then slap them again on the third? It means the apology is meaningless.
These aren't one-time incidents--they're part of a pattern that continues no matter how often Fox is forced to apologize. Fox has a clear record of attacking and undermining Black institutions, Black leaders, and Black people in general.
If we don't push back now, we will see more of the same from now until November. Please join me in helping to bring an end to Fox's behavior.
http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2162-426430
Thanks.
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9 comments:
Hell, get it together!!!
*taps finger impatiently*
.... I need time to mull this over... just like you do. lol.
I need some time as well...great blog btw...check me out.
Well, Fox has always been shady so this is no surprise to me! Its whatever. People will do anything to ruin a good thing!
p:s: are we officially made up yet bitch? I'm tired of waitin. I am bored at work and you be ignoring me on GCHAT!
This is crazy. I don't even know what to say about it. I'm rarely at a loss of words
I stopped watching FOX a couple years back because of their far right Republican rhetoric.
FOX has always been a Republican centered news network... They are doing what they feel must be done get McCain elected. I am glad no one is handing Obama the election. I am supporting him of course, but I want him to defend his record, beliefs, and plans to make our lives better.
Well I got news for you, It only gets worse. I almost seriously lost my job over some racist shit a lady said in regards to this....wait until we get to the point of outright brawls over race and appropriateness in America. And people really want to cry foul at what the Rev said a while back...SMH.
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