Black netroots activists urge CBC to avoid Fox News for debate

Now with the Nevada Democratic Party ditching propaganda outlet Fox News as a co-sponsor of its debate, attention is turning to the Congressional Black Caucus, which is choosing between CNN and Fox for its own debate. African American activists are putting pressure on the CBC to choose CNN.

“No network that calls Black churches a cult, implies that Senator Barack Obama is a terrorist, and uses the solemn occasion of Coretta Scott King’s funeral to call Black leaders ‘racist’ should be given a stamp of approval by the CBC Institute,” said James Rucker, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org. “Validating Fox as a legitimate source of news hurts Black America.”

Black bloggers and media experts also joined the call for the CBC Institute to freeze out Fox from presidential debates. One of those experts is Benjamin Todd Jealous, former executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Associations (NNPA), a 98-year old federation of more than 200 Black community newspapers.

“Fox has a long history of treating Black people unfairly,” said Jealous, “They are not a trusted news source for most Black Americans.”  Chris Rabb, Founder/Chief Evangelist of Afro-Netizen.com – a top African American political blog– added, “We urge the CBC Institute to lead with integrity and to not make a deal with the devil.”

Here's a compilation of some of Fox's despicable attacks against African Americans (from Fox Attacks):

Is this the kind of racist network that the Congressional Black Caucus wants to legitimize?