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Yes, Get Mad At Glenn Beck And Lou Dobbs, But Also Get Even!

Glenn Beck calls President Barack Obama a racist who hates white people and CNN Anchor Lou Dobbs, a closet birther uses his bully pulpit to insinuate that the  President is illegitimate until he produces a real birth certificate. These disrespectful extremists are able to spew their lies and hatred with the blessing of certain advertisers who we support. If you really want to get even and send a message to CNN and Fox corporate, then send a message to the advertisers who support these programs, by telling them you may no longer buy their products.

MSNBC's Deutsch encourages viewers to demand advertisers on Beck's show spend money elsewhere.

Please pass this email on below from the ColorOfChange.org

Dear friends,

As you may know, right-wing talk show hosts have been bringing race-based fear mongering into the mainstream, but FOX's Glenn Beck just took it to another level.

On Tuesday, Beck said: "This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people... this guy is, I believe, a racist."

It's part of a larger argument Beck has been making: that President Obama wants to serve the needs of Black communities at White people's expense. This kind of talk stirs up fear, hate, and it can lead to violence. I've joined ColorOfChange.org's effort to stop Glenn Beck.

ColorOfChange is already putting calls into Beck's advertisers, asking them if they want to be associated with this kind of racist hate and fear-mongering. When the advertisers see that tens of thousands of us are behind that question, I believe they'll move their advertising dollars elsewhere, and his show and platform will be history.

Will you take a stand and be counted, and invite your friends and family to do the same? It takes just a moment: Color of Change.org

Glenn Beck is appealing to the worst in America. Of course, some Americans refuse to accept the fact that our president is Black or the idea that he could truly serve all Americans. But the only way these views fade away is if they're not reinforced by mainstream society. Instead, folks like Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Rush Limbaugh are exploiting racism and race-based fear to bump their ratings, stirring up racial discord in the process.

The dangers of these tactics are real. We saw the same dynamic during the presidential race: By the end, the McCain/Palin campaign was unable to control the violent energy whipped up by their race-baiting. It resulted in an unprecedented number of threats on Obama's life, a rise in the number of hate groups, and an increase in the number of threats and crimes against immigrants and Black people.

 FOX has a horrible track record on pushing racist propaganda, but Glenn Beck appears to be taking the network to an even lower standard. He's trying to divide and distract America when we should be coming together and talking about issues that really matter--like health care and the economy.

The good news is that we have the power to stop this. All major media is funded by advertising. And advertisers care more than anything what consumers think. If we want to change what's happening and put an end to folks like Glenn Beck having a platform, we can do it.

Its up to us. Please join me to send a message to

Glenn Beck advertisers  ColorOfChange.org.

Lou Dobbs advertisers ColoroOfChange.org. 

What Do you think?

UpDate 8/12/09 - These former Glenn Beck advertisers know who their customers are.

GEICO is the latest corporate sponsor refusing to be associated with Beck. GEICO joins Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, Men’s Wearhouse, State Farm, Sargento and SC Johnson in boycotting the Glenn Beck Show.

This display of corporate responsibility is admirable. Yet there are still some corporate hold-outs. General Electric, Farmers Insurance, Office Depot, Nestlé (Gerber), Red Lobster, Travelocity, the U.S. Postal Service, Walmart and Wyeth, are all targets for the on-going boycott being sponsored by ColorofChange.org .

Naomi Sims, The First Black Super Model Defined The Meaning That "Black Is Beautiful!"

When I was a kid growing up in Harlem, everyone knew who

Naomi Sims was. She was what many young Black girls wanted

to be like and what many Black women wanted to look like. But few

really knew the obstacles she had to face to rise to the top of the

modeling world. Keep in mind that Black people have always set

fashion trends that are imitated globally. According to Target

Marketing News, Black Americans in 2008 spent over

$40 billion on fashion.

 

 

Sims, 61, who died of cancer on Saturday, was the first African-American fashion model on the of cover many fashion magazines in the 1960s. She is credited with opening the door for other black models and many in the fashion world consider her the first black supermodel.

It didn't come easy. She didn't know her father, grew up poor and ostracized in Pittsburgh, including time in foster homes. After attending the Fashion Institute of Technology on scholarship, she was rejected numerous times by modeling agencies who thought she was too dark.

Sims persisted and reached out directly to fashion photographers, which is how she landed her first magazine cover. Her achievement was the natural culmination of the Civil Rights era that sought inclusion and representation for people of color in all areas of public life.

After she left the catwalk, Sims went on to write and build a cosmetic and wig business geared toward the specific needs of black women. In recent years she lived in Newark.

What Sims accomplished is no small thing. For better or worse, women of all ages receive subtle and not-so-subtle messages about beauty and self-worth in the pages of fashion magazines. Naomi Sims' persistence gave us all a better reflection of what beauty is all about.

Justice Sotomayor - A Puerto Rican Girl From The Bronx Makes Good.

We are all proud of you Justice Sotomayor. Coming from Harlem

and having Puerto Rican and Black friends who grew up in your

project and attended Cardinal Spellman High School, I personally

know just how far  you have come.

 

In New York City, many Puerto Ricans look like Blacks and many

Blacks look like Puerto Ricans. But Justice Sotomayor you show all

America’s children that they are all equal and should therefore be

given an equal chance and  opportunity at succeeding based on their

own merits and hard work.

President Obama hosts a reception at the White House honoring Justice Sonia Sotomayor following her confirmation to the Supreme Court. After the Presidents remarks celebrating her achievement, Justice Sotomayor expresses her gratitude for her confirmation. August 12, 2009.

What do you think?

Glenn Beck: His Former Advertisers Understand Dollars Speak Louder Than Racist Words

In an economy that is putting every American under

financial stress, major corporations realize that every

consumer dollar counts, especially those that

represent a sizable portion of their customer base.

In 2008 Black and Hispanic consumers spend over

$1 trillion dollars fueling the American economy and

most former Glenn Beck advertisers clearly understand

this.

 

The Montgomery Bus Boycott taught African Americans

that if we were willing to bear the inconvenience and in some

cases hardship of walking instead of patronizing the racist

segregated practices of forcing us to ride in the back of the bus,

we would eventually bring about change. After white retailers

along the bus routes saw how much money they were loosing by

our absence, they too eventually wanted the boycott to end.

 

Throughout our history we have used boycotts quite effectively

to bring about change, but they usually take time to get the word

out and spread into action. That is not the case in the age of

the internet. Messages can spread through out the online world in 24

hours and today’s retailers and manufacturers know it.

That is why many have not given a second thought to pulling

their advertising support for the racist comments of Glenn Beck.

 

Associated Press reports:

 

A total of 36 Fox advertisers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,

CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials

not air on Beck's show, according to the companies

and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political

action among blacks and launched a campaign to get

advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen

more than were identified a week ago.

The Clorox Co., a former Beck advertiser, now says that "we do

not want to be associated with inflammatory speech used by either

liberal or conservative talk show hosts." The maker of bleach and

household cleaners said in a statement that it has decided not to

advertise on political talk shows.

Clorox knows that proportionately Blacks and Hispanics are heavy

users of bleach and disinfectants.  To sent a message to the

Glenn Beck advertisers who are still thinking about

it click here. ColorOfChange.com