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Dear John.

Sunday, the president of the United States tweeted four Black and Brown American congresswomen to "go back to their countries." Three of them are natural born citizens, and the fourth is an immigrant and refugee whose family chose America as home. These racist remarks against Black and Brown women are dehumanizing and gross, and attempt to paint immigrants as threats.

Racism is once again on the rise in this country, with hate speech and white nationalist talking points regularly dominating the news cycle. At Color Of Change, we stand in solidarity with Black and Brown women — we champion their beauty, their diversity, their power, and their agency. 

Today, we’re asking you to support our continued work to hold accountable the media and tech companies that are enabling the rapid spread of hate speech, with a donation of $5.

In the past, our Media, Culture, and Economic Justice team has taken on network advertisers to remove malicious voices in the media that spread stereotypes, biases, and misinformation, and it has fought for policies to slow the spread of hate online. The team has taken down Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck for years of racist attacks, stopped A&E from running a show normalizing white supremacists, and worked with the Associated Press to stop using anti-migrant language in its reporting. Thanks to the generous support of our members, our collective power to change the media landscape has been proven time and again. 

But this week's news cycle is proof that more work needs to be done to hold the media and tech companies who enable the spread of racist hate speech accountable. Whether it’s Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham on Fox News giving oxygen to white nationalist talking points, or Twitter allowing Donald Trump to direct hate toward sitting congresswomen, our work to fight hate goes on. Help fund our Media, Culture, and Economic Justice work as we continue to build this movement to protect the political voice and representation of Black and Brown women.

Donate $5 so we can keep fighting for Black and Brown women.

Until justice is real,

--Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Johnny, Future, Eesha, Samantha, Marcus, FolaSade and the rest of the Color Of Change team

References:

  1. “Inside Color of Change’s Successful Campaign to Make Bill O’Reilly’s Advertisers Flee,” Variety, April 19, 2017, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/151129?t=8&akid=34099%2E4731121%2EpAonvP
  2. “Victory! ColorOfChange Campaign Helps Drive Beck off of Fox News,” Huffington Post, April 7, 2011, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/151130?t=10&akid=34099%2E4731121%2EpAonvP
  3. “The ‘Generation KKK’ Fiasco,” The New Yorker, January 4, 2017, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/151131?t=12&akid=34099%2E4731121%2EpAonvP
  4. “Victory: Associated Press Drops ‘Chain Migration,’ Harmful Term Used to Discriminate Against Immigrant Families,” Medium, June 27, 2018, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/151132?t=14&akid=34099%2E4731121%2EpAonvP

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