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‘Dump Trump’ Push Spurs #RacismIsntFunny Campaign (Video)

Gutiérrez is urging NBC to "Dump Trump." (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Gutiérrez is urging NBC to "Dump Trump." (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

The campaign to bar presidential hopeful Donald Trump from hosting NBC’s Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7 took another step Thursday with the launch of racismisntfunny.com .  

The website comes one day after Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez, D-Ill., stood on the House floor next to a black poster with bold white letters that read: #RacismIsntFunny. Gutiérrez spoke about NBC’s decision to bring Trump to SNL, just a few months after NBC terminated its business with Trump following comments he made in his campaign launch speech suggesting an abundance of Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists.  

Gutiérrez, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said other Latinos, not just Mexicans, were offended by Trump’s remarks.  

“Look, Americans aren’t very good at telling us apart,” Gutiérrez said. “So when we are under attack by a tycoon running for the Republican presidential nomination, we can’t tell us apart either. We are all family”  

Gutierrez Slams Trump, SNL

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Gutiérrez called on NBC to consider if they would have asked Trump to host the sketch show if he had made similar remarks about the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender community or women. And he called attention to a lack of diversity on the SNL cast.  

“What if all of the Latino cast members all walked off the job?” the Illinois Democrat asked. “Oh wait, you don’t have any Latino cast members.”  

The new website highlights Gutiérrez’s floor speech and a letter he sent to the presidents of NBC and Comcast, as well as a petition to cancel Trump’s hosting gig.  

A notice on the site points out that the groups behind the campaign, such as America’s Voice, MoveOn.org and the United Farm Workers of America, are “concerned with Saturday Night Live’s role in mainstreaming anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric .”  

So far the online petition urging SNL to “Dump Trump” has garnered more than 225,000 signatures.  

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