NBC
By Lauren Prince
November 4, 2015
Protesters
gathered outside of NBC's famed headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center
in New York City on Wednesday for a "Dump Trump" rally ahead of Donald
Trump's appearance
as the host of Saturday Night Live this weekend.
A
petition decrying the Republican presidential candidate's upcoming
appearance on the comedy show was delivered by the protesters — who
gathered outside the building
that houses SNL studios — to the executives at NBC.
The
box containing the signatures read, "522,080 petition signatures
demanding that NBC revoke Donald Trump's invitation to host Saturday
Night Live on Saturday, November
7th, 2015."
Juan Escalante, a staffer with America's Voice, an immigration reform group, delivered the petition.
Several
of the organizations participating in the rally said that NBC's
invitation to Trump legitimizes his comments about racism and
immigration reform.
"We
believe this individual has been very divisive toward the Latino
community," said Brent Wilkes, the national executive director for the
League of United Latin American
Citizens. "He's called us rapists, murderers. He's called us criminals.
He's called us drug dealers. And that's extremely offensive to us. And
there's no space for someone like that on a comedy show like Saturday
Night Live."
"It
hurts us," said Alex Nogales, one of the main organizers for the rally
and the president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
"[SNL] is a cultural program
— this is not a news program."
Several protesters waved printed signs that read, "#RacismIsntFunny."
Karina
Garcia, 30, whose family is from Mexico, said that Trump's comments
earlier this summer about immigrants made his candidacy a "personal"
issue.
"This
level of racism ... it's like a tumor that if you ignore it, it
actually spreads," she said. "It's unconscionable that they would do
this — that they would give
him this stage."
When
asked about the Latino protest and petition, calling on NBC and SNL to
rescind its invitation to Donald Trump, representatives for NBC and SNL
declined to comment.
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
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