Sydney Morning Herald
By Bridget Bowman
October 23, 2015
Washington:
A campaign to bar Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump from
hosting Saturday Night Live next month is gathering pace, with the
launch of
a new website and online campaign.
The
website launch on Thursday (racismisntfunny.com) comes one day after a
Democrat politician, Luis V. Gutierrez, stood on the House floor next to
a black
poster with bold white leaders that read: #RacismIsntFunny.
Gutierrez
denounced NBC's decision to bring Trump to SNL, just a few months after
the network terminated its business with Trump following comments he
made
suggesting an abundance of Mexican immigrants were criminals and
rapists.
Gutierrez, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said other Latinos, not just Mexicans, were offended by Trump's remarks.
"Look,
Americans aren't very good at telling us apart," Gutierrez said. "So
when we are under attack by a tycoon running for the Republican
presidential nomination,
we can't tell us apart either. We are all family"
Gutierrez
called on NBC to consider if they would have asked Trump to host the
sketch show if he had made similar remarks about the lesbian, gay,
bisexual,
transgender community or women. And he called attention to a lack of
diversity on the SNL cast.
"What
if all of the Latino cast members all walked off the job?" the Illinois
Democrat asked. "Oh wait, you don't have any Latino cast members."
The
new website highlights Gutierrez's floor speech and a letter he sent to
the presidents of NBC and Comcast, as well as a petition to cancel
Trump's hosting
gig.
A
notice on the site points out that the groups behind the campaign, such
as America's Voice, MoveOn.org and the United Farm Workers of America,
are "concerned
with Saturday Night Live's role in mainstreaming anti-immigrant and
anti-Latino rhetoric."
So far the online petition urging SNL to "Dump Trump" has garnered more than 225,000 signatures.
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
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