U.S : COLOR OF CHANGE needs your support to protect the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866.

A billboard like this can help pressure Comcast leadership to drop their Supreme Court petition and protect the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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Dear friend,

Protect our history and our future.

Dear friend, we need you to protect the Civil Rights Act of 1866 — one of the oldest civil rights statutes to date and one of the most important tools we have for protecting our communities from discrimination.¹ 

We have over 25,000 petition signatures to demand Comcast drop its Supreme Court petition, but more must be done. The Supreme Court will hear this case on November 13, and we need to act fast to pressure Comcast's board of directors and executives before it's too late !

Will you donate $1 so we can pressure Comcast’s leadership to drop their Supreme Court petition, using billboards near Comcast’s corporate headquarters? 

Comcast’s board and executive leadership are steadfast at defending their bottom line, with the support of the Trump administration.² The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is a pathway to justice for all discriminatory cases involving employment, housing, banking, and consumer and business transactions.³ Comcast’s case may be heard by the Supreme Court, and we know that the conservative justices are itching to make it easier for businesses to get away with racial discrimination. We cannot allow Comcast, a company that claims to pride itself on being dedicated to diversity and inclusion in all facets of its business, to set such a harmful precedent.⁴

Comcast must be held accountable. A $1 donation will help us expose the executives who support setting our rights back 150 years.

Color Of Change has reached out to Comcast executives and its board directly. However, Comcast refuses to accept the greater implications of challenging a hallmark piece of legislation — the oldest form of law created to acknowledge our humanity — that protects Black economic equality, including Black artists and independent contractors.

Challenging the Civil Rights Act of 1866 has grave consequences for Black people in the arts who are creating content to reshape the narratives of Blackness and Black culture. Without this hallmark statute, it would be difficult for Black creators to protect themselves against discrimination in already majority-owned and -led creative spaces. A Supreme Court decision eliminating this protection has the potential to fundamentally change how racial discrimination claims are decided for decades to come in multiple areas affecting us.⁵  

Comcast’s petition would put the burden on Black people to prove that racism was the only driver of a decision or denial in cases seeking to expose racial discrimination. We cannot allow Comcast and the Trump administration to strike down key provisions of one of the oldest and most important civil rights laws in the country.

Donate $1 so we can place billboards at Comcast’s corporate headquarters and show how much this important piece of legislation means to Black people.

Ignoring our efforts to engage it directly, Comcast believes a legal defense is more important than protecting civil rights. Justice and economic equality have been part of a constant fight for us, and we cannot let a corporation reverse protections that ensure our communities have the means to work, build wealth, and access the justice system to vindicate our rights.

Honor the ancestors that sacrificed for our freedoms and for Black economic liberation by donating $1 to stop Comcast from reversing one of the most critical civil rights protections that we have.

Until justice is real,

Jade, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Johnny, Future, Eesha, Samantha, Marcus, FolaSade, and the rest of the Color Of Change team.

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References :

1. “The Civil Rights Act of 1866 : History and Impact,” Thought Co., February 3, 2019, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/195186?t=10&akid=37377%2E1942551%2EVvawXI
2. “Exclusive : Comcast & Trump Dismantling Civil Rights Over $20 Billion Entertainment Studios Lawsuit,” Forbes, August 23, 2019, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/195190?t=12&akid=37377%2E1942551%2EVvawXI
3. “Civil Rights Groups Slam Comcast for Trying to Weaken a Key Protection Against Racial Discrimination,” The Washington Post, October 2, 2019, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/199878?t=14&akid=37377%2E1942551%2EVvawXI
4. “Civil Rights Act of 1866,” African American Civil Rights Movement, 2017, http://act.colorofchange.org/go/195187?t=16&akid=37377%2E1942551%2EVvawXI
5. “Berkeley Law Dean Believes That Comcast and Charter Communications Are Putting Black People’s Civil Rights in Jeopardy,” The Grio, October 1, 2019, https://act.colorofchange.org/go/199879?t=18&akid=37377%2E1942551%2EVvawXI

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