July 24: Color of Change organizes campaign against racial smears on Fox News
July 11, 2008
July 24: Color of Change organizes campaign against racial smears on Fox News
Color of Change is an organization devoted to ensuring that all Americans are represented, protected and served equally despite differences in race or class. Currently, more than 100,000 of their members have united in a campaign to end the racist smears on Fox News. On July 24th, after a graphic on Fox News referred to Michelle Obama as Barack’s “baby mamma,” rapper Nas joined the campaign against Fox News as well. Nas told MTV that he was also angered by the way in which Bill O’Reilley uses the term “lynching party” with regards to women. Nas and the rest of Color of Change believe that Fox’s racist slurs are not only offensive to African Americans, but to all Americans alike. With offenses like this so prevalent in today’s world, the dissemination of Media That Matters Film Festival shorts that promote a greater awareness of racism and its consequences is more important than ever. The Media That Matters Film Festival website features numerous films which expose issues of racial justice and injustice. Some examples of these include: We Were Humans, Silence Speaks, Is My Neighbor Latino?, Holla Back Dubai!., Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy and CopWatch from the Third Annual Media That Matters Film Festival; Books Not Bars, Day of Remembrance, and The Children of Birmingham from the Fourth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival; System Failure and Something Other Than Other from the Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival; A Girl Like Me, Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize and The Rules of the Game from the Sixth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival; The Apollos and Rapping at Fear from the Seventh Annual Media That Matters Film Festival; and A Loud Color, African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal, Perversion of Justice and Something’s Moving from the Eighth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival.
This Color of Change campaign against Fox News also raises questions about the inherent flaws of the news industry and the power of harmful propaganda. These sorts of media issues are also explored in several Media That Matters Film Festival Shorts, such as the Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival short The News Is What We Make It and the Fourth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival shorts Spring in Awe and Popaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English.
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