Dr. Boyce Watkins
http://www.boycewatkins.com/
http://www.yourblackworld.com/
Greetings to the Your Black World Family,
In case you didn’t see it, Liz Trotta, a Fox News contributor, joked about how she hoped that Barack Obama would be assassinated. The video clip is at YourBlackWorld if you want to see it, and here is the text from the disturbing part of the conversation:
Trotta: "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama. Well, both, if we could."Host: "Talk about how you really feel."
What is most ironic about this statement is that the idea of doing harm to people of color is quite credible. I personally have been offered additional police protection due to the number of death threats that have come into my campus since our challenge to Bill O’Reilly. Barack Obama has had to take on additional secret service protection as a result of the number of death threats he has received.
As much as I have shown concern for the leadership abilities of President Bush in my books and articles, I never once hoped for his assassination. Such sentiment is clearly treasonous and evil. But this is the kind of language used to describe the man who may become the first black president. Bill O’Reilly also discussed having a “lynching party” against Michelle Obama and was not sanctioned for this language. That is what we’re up against.
This election is quite telling in the sense that it shows just how sick our country is with racism. The idea that a major news network can allow one of its analysts to a) confuse a presidential candidate’s name with one of the world’s most notorious terrorists (notice that she confused Obama’s name with Osama, and many of you have heard Barack’s middle name being used by those who oppose him), and b) joke about how she would like to see him assassinated along with Bin Laden, clearly explains where racism and evil continue to exist in our nation.
If you still stand up in support of Fox News after seeing this, then I truly feel sorry for you.
Our protest against Fox and Bill O’Reilly is picking up tremendous steam. Working together, we can hold this network accountable for its actions. If you have not already done so, I humbly ask that you continue emailing and calling the producers for The O’Reilly Factor. Also, be sure to send a complaint to the FCC over this horrific behavior. The contact information for the O’Reilly
Factor, the FCC and all of Fox News’ corporate sponsors can be found at this link.
We can’t let the “Axis of Ignorance” distort the facts and steal this election. The summer of 2008 is going to be as challenging and critical as the summer of 1968 when it comes to fighting for equality. I encourage all Americans to remember: WE ARE NOT POWERLESS…..the time to vote is not only in November. The time to vote is NOW, by emailing, calling and writing corporate sponsors of Fox News and the FCC to tell them that this anti-American behavior is not going to be tolerated.
I honestly don’t care if you support Clinton, Obama or McCain. I only care that we fight for what is right. All are invited to this struggle against social terrorism.
" An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bless you,
Dr. Boyce Watkins
http://www.yourblackworld.com/
http://www.boycewatkins.com/
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