D.L. Hughley gets news show with CNN Oct. 25

the4ththeatre@yahoo.comNov 22nd, 2008 - 21:56:39

OPEN: LETTER
Racial and Political Hate Crime



Mr. Jeffrey Bewkes
CEO, Time-Warner
1 Time Warner Centre,
New York, NY 10019

Dear Mr.Bewkes

On Saturday, October 26, 2008 many others and I were gathered in my home for an informal social event. My television was tuned into CNN’s Larry King’s show, which we all later learned that CNN was to present a news satire starring D.L. Hugley, a once respected comic.

As the show unfolded the sounds and feelings of pain and righteous indignation openly erupted among all of my guests, and as an African-American male I even felt pity. Apart from its macabre lack of humor, it had the psychological impacts of a 1960’s church bombing in a time when America’s collective consciousness is progressing in ways never thought imaginable in those times.

It was an emotionally horrific and traumatic hate crime against the millions of African-Americans watching D. L. Hughley “Breaks The News”. The show presented characters and images of people of color as morally corrupt, jiving, intellectual inferiors, including Mr. Hughley who is uniquely unqualified as a performer dealing with political content under the cloak of comedy. CNN has racially shocked America’s soul back 70 years using old film clips of the late Sammy Davis, Jr from a humiliating and dangerous era for African-American people and performers and others who stood with them for equal rights.

|As Americans, we are all hurt and diminished by CNN’s total lack of social responsibility. TLFAE is demanding that Time-Warner/CNN cease and desist with the production and programming of the D.L. Hughley “Breaks The News”. We also assert that this malicious and intellectual assault was based upon CNN’s own political agenda by showing the world negative images of African-Americans as we proceed closer to November 4th.

All Americans should be outraged and are deserving of a public apology for this thoughtless act of political and racial terrorism. We are currently seeking legal counsel for class action proceedings and organizing a global boycott of CNN and all of Time-Warner products to enforce these demands. We hope that your response is both swift and judicious.

Govern yourselves accordingly,

Mr. Ira Robinson
President,
Toussaint L’OvertureFoundation for Arts & Education
Email: the4ththeatre@yahoo.com.

Cc: JNew on Klein, President, CNN/US


Dear Mr.Bewkes

On Saturday, October 26, 2008 many others and I were gathered in my home for an informal social event. My television was tuned into CNN’s Larry King’s show, which we all later learned that CNN was to present a news satire starring D.L. Hugley, a once respected comic.

As the show unfolded the sounds and feelings of pain and righteous indignation openly erupted among all of my guests, and as an African-American male I even felt pity. Apart from its macabre lack of humor, it had the psychological impacts of a 1960’s church bombing in a time when America’s collective consciousness is progressing in ways never thought imaginable in those times.

It was an emotionally horrific and traumatic hate crime against the millions of African-Americans watching D. L. Hughley “Breaks The News”. The show presented characters and images of people of color as morally corrupt, jiving, intellectual inferiors, including Mr. Hughley who is uniquely unqualified as a performer dealing with political content under the cloak of comedy. CNN has racially shocked America’s soul back 70 years using old film clips of the late Sammy Davis, Jr from a humiliating and dangerous era for African-American people and performers and others who stood with them for equal rights.

|As Americans, we are all hurt and diminished by CNN’s total lack of social responsibility. TLFAE is demanding that Time-Warner/CNN cease and desist with the production and programming of the D.L. Hughley “Breaks The News”. We also assert that this malicious and intellectual assault was based upon CNN’s own political agenda by showing the world negative images of African-Americans as we proceed closer to November 4th.

All Americans should be outraged and are deserving of a public apology for this thoughtless act of political and racial terrorism. We are currently seeking legal counsel for class action proceedings and organizing a global boycott of CNN and all of Time-Warner products to enforce these demands. We hope that your response is both swift and judicious.

Govern yourselves accordingly,

Mr. Ira Robinson
President,
Toussaint L’OvertureFoundation for Arts & Education
Email: the4ththeatre@yahoo.com.

Cc: Jon Klein, President, CNN/US

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