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.

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Comments

[Darsan54]

Yeeeeeeeaa­aaaaaaaaaa­ah, that's gonna happen.

[dwright]

It is the word "species" that bothers me the most actually - we all know they are racist, but do they also believe that folks that are non-Caucasian are a different species?

[BlackDynamite]

Yeah! Duh!

[MissKaren]

He probably thinks people of different reli gions are also members of different species. This guy is a through-and-through Na-zi

[kindGSL]

Worse than just racist, there are legal arguments hanging on it.

The only way to justify certain things in the law is to suppose Native Americans are a different species, especially when it comes to their religion.

This is not just an idol threat. It is backed up by big business. That is why we are not included in the religion section at Borders.

[kindGSL]

I hope the editor here will recognize that covering up HOW we are being discriminated against only aids and abets the much larger and historical crime of ethnic cleansing.

If this is not a place for public testimony, I will go elsewhere.

[miketothad]

Boy, do I hope they keep him on the fire.

[in4success]

isn't it about time we boycott some faux sponsors and force them to fire this munch . . . so they can see how it feels?

[barksalot]

He stated a fact you dun.der heads. Years from now (we won't be here) you won't be able to tell whether someone is of African, Asian, Anglo saxon, descent. They'll all look quite alike. Quit making a big deal out of nothing.

[publicenemy2009]

This is easy for you to say because your ancestors weren't ever classified as 3/5 of a person. *meaning sub- species. So we know the code words in this racist statement.

And how does your logic make sense, when you say (we won't be here) but you won't be able to tell weather someone is of African, Asian, Anglo saxon decent. They'll all look alike.

This is a *oxymoron* to the 10Th power.

[LaughingMan]

"He stated a fact you dun.der heads"

.....um, no he didn't. Blacks and whites - same SPECIES. Indians and Asians - same species.

On the other hand, Humans and cats - different species. Humans and insects - different species.

High school Biology 101. Less time burning (and banning) books and more time reading them, will surely help.

[primus4]

Brian Kilmeade's "fair and balanced" view of American society.

[rebopine]

MSNBC immediately apologized today when one of their guests said "B*** Job", hardly as egregious as Brian Kilmeades comments and Fox hasn't even bothered to apologize?

What's wrong with these people?

[everythinginmoderation]

Not the same and you know it ! At least I hope you do !

[kindGSL]

Yet they never apologize for being cheer leaders for torture.

[care4mypeeps]

Who does Mr. Brian Kilmead think is the greatest contributors of race mixing while denouncing it vehemently?

My skin color is not carmel for no reason. Slaves did not change the color of their skin from blue black to every shade in between including milky white and still be called an African American.

Ponder that!!!!!!!!!!

[ricmarc]

great post!

[Mattie]

everything this guy says is offensive, that's why he's on FOX.

[Christian]

because Fox takes pride in being offensive to those they see as liberals.

[belfam]

they are a bunch of klansmen

[Havnagudtim]

FoKKKs Noise.

[kindGSL]

Good one, I haven't seen that before.

[AleshiaMassey]

Obviously this person has not been to Sweden...it has a pretty high immigration level...and any notion of ''pure genes' must only reside in Brian Kilmeade's head. Inter-racial marriage/dating is not uncommon there...

[GAPeach99]

Excellent point!

Paging Jon Stewart!!

[Klimb]

You are so Spot on!

[rsprags]

You are so correct apparently he has not been to Sweden or even read anything about the country's history. They have many ethnic groups and have received immigrants from all of the world during hundred of years of wars and genocide!

[ljc]

None of the Freaks and Fiends appear to be very bright. Gretchen is the best educated, going to Stanford and studied at Oxford. I am not sure she has retained much though.

[damilitantone]

Please let him keep talking. I'd rather folks say what they mean than fake it.

[eSEB]

The offensive nature of the comments aside, his ignorance of elementary genetics suggests that perhaps he was home-schooled by Gale Lowe.

[zukervati]

LoL

[jnutlfam2]

Somehow I think Faux news says these type of things just to get people spun up and tuned in. Tune them out.

[Alarmist]

I'm surprised they only want a mild apology. His statements require a resignation.