Color of Change: Please take action

Dear Friends,

Right now, Fox News is trying to paint Barack Obama as foreign, un-American, suspicious, and scary. They're trying to send Americans the message that our country's first viable Black candidate for President is not "one of us."

I've joined on to ColorOfChange.org's campaign to push back on Fox, publicly demanding they stop their race-baiting and fear mongering. If that doesn't work, then we'll go to their advertisers and the FCC. I wanted to invite you to sign on as well. It takes only a moment:

http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2352-187680

Here's what happened recently:

After Senator Obama won the nomination, he and his wife gave each other a "pound" in front of the cameras. Fox anchor E.D. Hill called the act of celebration a "terrorist fist jab." Then last week, a Fox News on-screen graphic referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama"--slang used to describe the unmarried mother of a man's child. It was a clear attempt to associate the Obamas with negative cultural stereotypes about Black people, an insult not only to Michelle Obama but to women and Black people everywhere.

After each of the incidents mentioned, Fox issued some form of weak apology. But what does it mean when you slap someone in the face, apologize the next day, then slap them again on the third? It means the apology is meaningless.

These aren't one-time incidents--they're part of a pattern that continues no matter how often Fox is forced to apologize. Fox has a clear record of attacking and undermining Black institutions, Black leaders, and Black people in general.

If we don't push back now, we will see more of the same from now until November. Please join me in helping to bring an end to Fox's behavior.

http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2352-187680

Thanks.

Sorry Hillary Supporters...

But I am overjoyed by Obama's campaign tonight. Check out his speech here.

I get emotional pretty easily. I admit it. BUT, this speech, and just thinking about what this nomination means for our country, makes me tear up. It is indeed a historical year for the country, and moreover a historical night. And as the man himself said,

"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another... a journey that will bring a new and better day to America...because of you."

I've got Obama fever.

Coincidence?

I was off work this past week while Barack Obama was in town. Did any one brave the crowd and see him?

I'll be upfront with you all. I'm an Obama supporter now. His recent speech on race won me over. If you haven't had the chance to read or watch it, it is well worth the time. I can not think of the last time I felt proud of a public figure, a politician no less. And I feel proud of Obama for giving this speech. Backlash, be damned.

So, I was listening to the news and hearing reports of how quickly tickets to see him speak were going out of his campaign office when I realized something...PWCL had just the week prior purchased a bus bench for Sexual Assault Awareness Month and where will it be located?

In front of Obama's campaign headquarters at 30th & SE Division. It's our only bench (all other ads will be on buses so that they move around the city - keep an eye out for them!) and we love it. Here's the design:


Sorry about the low quality. If you can't read it, it says: We live in a rape culture, but we don't have to. Decide to End Sexual Violence.

I guess I'm just excited that Portlanders who support Obama are going to see this bus bench as they stop by the office. I don't believe in coincidences so I personally think the universe was looking out for PWCL when we chose that bench.

If you haven't had a chance to read or listen to the speech I'm fawning over, here's the YouTube video:

You can read the transcript here