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Byron Allen Goes To War With Sharpton, Obama, Comcast For Future Of Black Media
Daily Caller ^ | 2/26/15 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 02/26/2015 3:28:14 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

Legendary TV talk show host Byron Allen is taking on Al Sharpton, President Obama, and the most powerful media corporations in the world in a battle to spotlight the crisis at the heart of American race relations. It’s a daunting mission. But for some reason he doesn’t sound scared...

Allenjoined with the National Association of African-American Owned Media to file a $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit this week against Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Sharpton’s National Action Network, the NAACP, the Urban League, and former FCC commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker.

Allen and his fellow plaintiff also filed a $10 billion suit against AT&T and DirectTV.

“It’s cheaper to give Al Sharpton money than it is to do business with real African-American owned media,” Allen told TheDC. "What Comcast does is they give Al Sharpton money so he doesn’t call them racist. That is the issue here.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; lawsuit; media; race
I support this guy for standing up against these clowns.
1 posted on 02/26/2015 3:28:14 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
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2 posted on 02/26/2015 3:37:47 PM PST by tomkat
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yea but is this a principal stand or a want to be shake down artist complaining about the one of the other shake down artist having a monopoly on all the money...


3 posted on 02/26/2015 3:50:37 PM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Legendary”?????


4 posted on 02/26/2015 7:25:47 PM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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