Black And Latino Protesters Wake Up Manhattan’s Upper East Side With Their Loud Whoring

For the third consecutive Saturday, residents in Manhattan’s Upper East Side were awakened by Black and Latino protesters outside Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman’s E.65th street mansion:

The group, which calls itself the Campaign for Corporate Responsibility in Entertainment, wants to change the way media companies portray black and Latino men and women in music videos , T.V, and movies. It’s calling for media companies like Viacom to adopt universal standards prohibiting lyrical or visual content that is degrading, promotes violence, and stereotypes black and Latino men as hoodlums and thugs, and women as promiscuous. Sample slogan: “BET does not reflect me!”

We’d totally have joined them, but Saturday morning we were sort of tangled up in a few things. Like our bedsheets. And a body or three. On camera. In an uncut rap video. It sounded like it got pretty exciting though:

“I’m not a bitch or a whore!,” cried one young woman. “And I’m tired of being portrayed as one!”

God. What a bitchy whore.

Rousing East-Siders, Group Protests Media Depictions of Minorities [The New York Observer]