Journalists Of Color Demand Fox News Apologize For Brian Kilmeade Comments

UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., a "multicultural coalition of national journalism organizations with an outreach to over 10,000 supporters," has issued a petition calling on Fox News and its parent company, News Corp. to take steps to remedy recent offending remarks made by "Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade on the show's July 8 episode.

The remarks in question came during a discussion of a recent survey that found that married people in Sweden and Finland are less susceptible to the symptoms of Alzheimer's than unmarried people. Kilmeade disregarded the relevancy of the survey for Americans, saying "we [Americans] keep marrying other species and other ethnicities . . . Swedes have pure genes . . . in America we marry everybody..."

WATCH KILMEADE MAKE THAT STATEMENT HERE

UNITY called Kilmeade's statement "beyond silly and worthy of ridicule", based on "the basest of white supremacist ideologies, the notion that white people and non-white people are of different species, with the white race as 'pure.'"

UNITY has called upon Fox News to "issue an immediate apology for Mr. Kilmeade's offensive comments" and "enter into a serious discussion on the program regarding intermarriage and the value of diversity in our society."

The petition is available online here.

Get HuffPost Media On Facebook and Twitter!

Comments

[BARRY08]

how embarrasing !!

how would he explain this to God when he finally
comes to face Him ?

.........w­ould not like to be in his shoes
it is all i can say...

[Catjya]

Tlhere are no pure races,that's a biological fact!

[BARRY08]

now.......­...that is why governor from Alaska resigned
she is not pure breed

this fellow must have be mixed himself

shall we tell him what he really is ?
or do you think he knows...

[Usama]

I thought that it was rather refreshing to have this come out. These types of utterances are insightful into this man's thinking. Im not aware of his complete argument though. Was he upset with America, or resigned to its marriage culture?

Clarence Thomas is married to a European American woman Virginia Lamp Thomas.
Alan Keyes is married to Jocelyn Marcel, apparently of Indian (the continent) ethnicity.
Jeb Bush is married to Columba who is of Mexican ethnicity.


Maybe this guy against 100s of athletes who have married spouses of mixed ethnicities, like the best golf in the world: Tiger Woods. Woods is himself of mixed race.

And maybe he is against world famous actresses like Halle Berry who is of mixed race.

[HomerJFong]

I think it was meant to be 'harmless'. He was trying to make a point that has some flakes of legitimacy, but made it in a ham-handed manner that seems to peel at the onion of his cultural view of the world.

[BILLHICKSPINNING]

It's time for the Jay Bulworth plan.

[hmmmmmer]

Ignorance is bliss and Brian is about as blissful as it can get.

[CC1]

Agreed

[zenwhenicanbe2]

they need to check the oxygen level in that studio

[Angmorg]

It's a shame that the All Star game is on Fox

[LateeLady]

Hope they don't hold their breath waiting for a genuine apology from Murdoch's team

[kandlefly]

Pleeease, why should he, he works for a Racist News Channel. You all knew that when you signed up to work for them or tuned in to the uneducated and ignorant crap they spew daily. So big deal.

[dillydawg]

Spot On!

[Durango]

Adolph Hitler would be proud.

Evidence that his ideology and way of thinking is alive and well at Fox News and the American Conservatives.

Usually they hide their meaning in code words. His mistake is in saying out loud what the rest of those fools think.

P.S. As for all those "pure" Swedes" and Finns.

They are all Socialists right?

[miloseven]

Immediately after hearing of this inane comment, I remembered that old SNL sketch, "I Married A Monkey". Brian probably also believes the Earth is only 6,000 years old. Did he take stupidity courses in college?

[walleymr]

see, i interpret that survey to mean that married people are living healthier than singles ...

but, i'm not this brain trust

[marydianeg]

Other species? Who, what, when...?

[TomInJax]

Kermit and Miss Piggy. Duh!

[brooklyncitizen]

she was never right for him.

[blaze]

This is also completely foolish coming from Christians. According to the Bible we all came from the same two parents.

[MNinWI]

They only use that one when it works in their favor.

[HomerJFong]

WE ARE ALL PRODUCTS OF, AND PERPETUATORS OF INCEST!!!

THE INEVITABLE PERILS OF GAY MARRIAGE HAVE TAKEN EFFECT RETROACTIVELY!!!

[DaOne]

It's time for progressives to take out the trash.

[matzopizza]

this trash is waiting,come on.