Charter To Fight Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
A racial discrimination claim was documented by business visionary Byron Allen against Charter Communications and a government judge managing the $10 billion claim said that the accusations merits full consideration. Government District Court Judge George Wu dismissed the offer by Charter to hurl out the racial discrimination claim that was documented by the National Association of African-American Owned Media and Entertainment Studios.
The National Association of African-American Owned Media and Allen asserted that Charter has enjoyed “racial discrimination in contracting for television channel carriage.” This implies that Charter Communications conspired to keep off black-owned media from their programming.
Skip Miller, a lawyer for Allen said, “We have evidence of racial bias harbored by top level Charter executives with decision-making authority, and allege, in detail, the discriminatory treatment ESN (Entertainment Studios) suffered at the hands of these executives.”
Allen is renowned as a television maker and comic and is a bustling official who has a liking for dark possessed media. In June, Allen purchased TheGrio, a prominent site that objectives the Afro-American gatherings of people. The site was looking for an accomplice who can help the site develop its arrangement of computerized video production, which likewise incorporates conceivable syndication over the cable systems.
“We are excited to have TheGrio join Byron Allen’s ever-expanding Entertainment Studios media empire,” said Co-Founder and Executive Editor of TheGrio, David A. Wilson. “Byron shares our vision of growing TheGrio into the leading video content creator and distribution platform for African-Americans. We look forward to developing the next iteration of TheGrio, and the fact that it will remain 100 percent African American-owned is very significant.”
With the claim against Charter advancing and the TheGrio at his side, Allen is much positive about the conceivable outcomes. “This lawsuit was filed to provide distribution and real economic inclusion for 100% African American-owned media,” Allen said. “The cable industry spends $70 billion a year licensing cable networks and 100% African American-owned media receives zero. This is completely unacceptable. We will not stop until we achieve real economic inclusion for 100% African American-owned media.”
President of the National Association of African American-Owned Media, Stamp DeVitre, said that, “Charter will now have to open up all their contracts which will show the world that they do not do business with 100% African American-owned media out of the billions of dollars they spend on programming every year.”
“Simply put, the contracts and the numbers do not lie, and they will show racial discrimination, lack of economic inclusion for African American-owned media, and blatant racism. In my opinion, Charter’s CEO, Tom Rutledge, has done his stockholders a huge disservice by not sitting down with us, but instead pretending Reverend Al Sharpton speaks for all African Americans which in itself is racist,” DeVitre included.