AP
July 10, 2015
The
head of a Latino civil rights group called on more organizations to
follow NBC’s example and cut business ties with Donald Trump.
Alex
Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, said
Thursday that the PGA of America’s decision this week to move a golf
tournament from a Trump-owned
course was a step in the right direction.
The
PGA and other major golf organizations should agree to keep tournaments
off Trump properties in response to his comments about Mexican
immigrants, Nogales said.
Trump’s representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The PGA said it relocated its Grand Slam of Golf in agreement with Trump.
Nogales’
comments followed a Q&A with NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob
Greenblatt, part of a conference on Latinos in entertainment sponsored
by the advocacy group.
NBC
ended its partnership with Trump on the Miss Universe and Miss USA
pageants after the celebrity billionaire, in announcing his presidential
campaign, said some Mexican
immigrants to the U.S. bring drugs and crime, and some are rapists.
Nogales
thanked Greenblatt, then moved on to a discussion of Hispanic-oriented
shows planned by NBC. Among them: a drama in development about the
settlement of California.
The
Miss USA pageant that was to air on NBC will be carried Sunday instead
by the Reelz cable and satellite channel, which has said Trump won’t
profit from the telecast.
More
fallout from the GOP candidate’s June remarks include the Macy’s
department store chain decision’s to stop carrying an exclusive line of
Trump menswear; Univision
dropping its Spanish-language telecasts of the Miss USA and Miss
Universe pageants, and the end to a project that OraTV, a company backed
by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said it was developing with Trump.
Trump
has fought back with a $500 million lawsuit against Univision that
claims breach of contract and defamation and says Univision turned on
him because it supports
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton for president.
Regarding
Macy’s, Trump said he’d decided to end his relationship with the chain
because of pressure put upon them by outside sources.
“Both
Macy’s and NBC totally caved at the first sight of potential difficulty
with special interest groups who are nothing more than professional
agitators,” he said.
Nogales
said he talked with Greenblatt a few days before the decision by NBC, a
division of Comcast’s NBCUniversal, was announced June 29.
“The
Latino community has finally come to a maturation tipping point,”
Nogales said Thursday. “We’re not going to take it anymore, and we don’t
have to.”
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