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Dear John.
Comcast and its executives are seeking to roll back landmark civil rights protections for Black people, while also seeking to profit from our pain and the history of our struggle.
Just two weeks before its Supreme Court challenge to our oldest civil rights law, Comcast, the parent company of film production company Focus Features, is releasing the autobiographical film Harriet, based on the formerly enslaved and abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman. Tubman risked her life countless times to free hundreds of enslaved people and lived to see the nation’s first civil rights law come to pass: the Civil Rights Act of 1866 — the same civil rights act that Comcast is currently petitioning the Supreme Court to strike down.
We cannot allow a corporation to set a dangerous precedent with our rights, while also profiting from the painful past that led to the passing of the very civil rights act it is challenging.
Until justice is real,
--Jade, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Johnny, Future, Eesha, Samantha, Marcus, FolaSade, and the rest of the Color Of Change team
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