This isn't quite as bad as when the History Channel ran Birth of a Nation during the after school time slot as part of Black History Month a couple of years ago! Talk about a rotten thing to do---I suggested our union civil rights committee complain to the History Channel.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Subject: [BRC-ALL] CBS Evening News Attacks Us
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 09:40:52 PST
> From: "Malik Stan Reaves" <mstanr at HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: brc-all at igc.org
>
> CBS Evening News has decided to "celebrate" Black History Month by
> attacking Africa at one of its weak points. They are kicking off the
> month with an "expose" of the contemporary practice of slavery on Monday
> night.
>
> This clever, vicious media attack on us at a time when we are
> celebrating ourselves needs to be confronted. The Internet gives us one
> means to do so. Each of you can log on the CBS website feedback page at
> http://www.cbs.com/navbar/feedback.html. Select CBS Evening News with
> Dan Rather and let them have it. Hundreds of such e-mails would send
> them a loud and angry message. We might also want to earmark advertisers
> of the program the same kind of emails. Below is my contribution to the
> process. Those of you with other strategies, please come forward.
>
> malik stan reaves
>
> "I saw a commercial today revealing that CBS Evening News has chosen the
> first day of what is universally celebrated as Black History Month to
> air an expose on slavery in Africa. Not having seen the report yet I am
> not discounting the veracity of the report. Those of us familiar with
> African society are awre of this lingering and unfortunate anachronism.
> However, the choice of this subject on the first day of the month meant
> to help affirm the place of AFricans in US and world history is
> outrageous and malicious. It would be analogous to running an expose on
> the mafia on Columbus Day, or expose on the history of Irish involvement
> in gun-running or violations of Prohibition on St. Patricks Day. In
> short, all cultures have an underside, practices which rightfully demand
> examination and critique. But no such examinations are appropriate nor,
> in my memory, have ever been aired at a time meant to celebrate that
> particular culture. Why, when the subjects are Black, has the CBS
> Evening News chosen to do precisely that?"
>
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