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Dump Trump’ Push Spurs #RacismIsntFunny Campaign

By Thomas McKinless
Posted October 22, 2015 at 9:34pm

By Thomas McKinless and Bridget Bowman

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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.

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