On November 13, 2019, Comcast Executives through their lawyers petitioned the US Supreme Court to render part of the first Civil Rights Act of 1866, null and void.
In particular, they voided out Section 1981, which made freed slaves (which, by the way—is an oxymoron) U.S. citizens, and gives all individuals, including freed slaves, the same rights in contracts as those “enjoyed by white citizens.”
Comcast Executives say racial discrimination should no longer be allowed as a sole defense in America’s courts for a breach of contract. Their argument is a response to a $20 billion dollar lawsuit from Byron Allen, part-owner of channels such as Weather Channel, JusticeCentral, PetsTV, and RecipeTV.
Allen says his company, the National Association of African American-Owned Media, was denied additional bandwidth on Comcast’s channels solely because of race discrimination.
Comcast Executives said to Supreme Court Justices in regards to the lawsuit that “solely using the race card as an excuse for insufficient business performance should not be tolerated anymore.
“Since We, (Comcast Executives) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Marc Morial, the President of the Urban League and Reverend Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network, a few years ago, giving their organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars and provided Reverend Al Sharpton with his own television news talk show,” Comcast Executives said.
“Plus we gave two of our bandwidth channels to Puff Diddy and Magic Johnson. This proves we are not race discriminators.”
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