Say What?!? Byron Allen And Comcast Settle Racial Discrimination Lawsuit, Set Deal For 3 Channels

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settle

d his

lawsuit

with Comcast, you may remember that the case was always the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court ruled nine to zero against Byron Allen sending him back to the lower court, sued Comcast and other cable companies alleging that they were limiting his ability to access their cable systems in the game of the twenty billion dollar

lawsuit

filed in 2015, but announced today that it is dropping that particular lawsuit and that Comcast has reached a

deal

with Alan's entertainment company, his Entertainment Studios company, to acquire three of its

channels

, Comedy TV Recipe TV and Justice Central Dot TV.

This from the LA Times, sorry for the variety. It also modifies the terms of Comcast's existing agreement to carry the weather channel that Alan's company acquired in 2018. It also covers retransmission consent rights to 14 local television stations that Alan Media Group acquired in recent months. Quote: We are excited to have decided to begin a new phase of partnership with Comcast and I was talking about this defense of Byron Allen's cause, he came. He appeared on this show, The Breakfast Club won, he was saying to break up with Comcast, he was, he was associated with, you know, CBC had a conference with Congressman Bobby Rush and others wrote letters echoing those same comments and now, first of all nothing, we did it.

Contact to borrow Alanine did not offer any additional comment beyond the statement here. I personally contacted him and spoke with him today. Gregg, your thoughts will leak. Great bargain. This is

what

you do now, big guy, because you've proven

what

Big Daddy Kane is all about. The said and the negative is that I can't say that being a pimp is not easy, but you don't show that Tiffany is easy now that you skipped the race, big friend, here's your job, rocker boss, your job now is to fulfill the job . black people, which would be a little different than what they've done in the past, your job now is to use your platform and your resources for race elevation, big friend, let me tell you why, big friend, let me tell you why , Great guy. because the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed after the Thirteenth Amendment, but before the 14th amendment, in fact, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 codified in Section 1981, a federal law says that blacks had the right to celebrate and enforce contracts and be treated as If you were a white man, in other words, really the Civil Rights Act of 1866 has more powerful language than the Fourteenth Amendment, equal protection and due process, you carried the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to court and when the Ninth Circuit agreed with you that Comcast had discriminated against you, you took it to the state, you took it to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court ruled like crazy, another Whitneyhl corset expressed the opinion that you had to meet a higher standard for those of you who need to understand what I'm talking about.

I'm going to be very brief, this is what the Supreme Court said in March, when they heard Allan's lawsuit, they said that not only must it be proven in court or established the possibility, as a matter of fact, that race was used . by Comcast to determine whether or not its networks will be carried, but it must also establish that, but for the use of race, it would have connected its networks to them now in operation, had Kristin Clarke with our sister. I had brother Derek from the n-double-a-cp there, Johnson explained to us why lowering the standard and raising that level that standard would gut the Civil Rights Act of 1866, so they sent it back to the lower court so you could to do that, of course, your tactic has already been made, your tactic is to go to court so you can be discovered, even review Comcast's files, but, but, but, great friend, if your entire tactic was to gather the race behind you, cousin.

You've never been so black when it comes to us rallying the race behind you so you can get Comcast to make a

deal

with you and I suspect that's what you need to do now, moving forward, she's shown us that she was so black like you were six months ago when you sounded the alarm and the race came to your defense because right now you look like a real suspect Erica, wait, we just need to breathe from the heat officer dr. Carr's comment and I'm so glad he walked you all through dr. Carr the Civil Rights Act of 1866 because I was one of the people who was on that call with the n-double-a-cp when they got close and talked specifically about how this would affect black people when you're talking about competing for contracts.

Were you thinking about buying a house or getting an apartment? How do all these diverse decisions of the Supreme Court channel and impact us? So I agree with what Dr. Carr is saying that with all the engagement that he got from this platform with roll call from everyone, roll call from everyone, what was said, the people who are just in the audience in general, now there is such an old solution and I think he needs to know. that and expressively with the different

channels

that you have now, even thinking about this platform that is black media that is so dedicated to not only providing news but also connecting the dots and allowing people to see how we see things around the world.

The day impacts us on a day to day basis so I completely agree with Dr. Greg Carr and it's always been very interesting to me the way Byron Allen did it but now you really have to consult with your community what they think You know if it comes from Erica and Dr. Carr, you know, my girl, Senator Carla Harris, led an amicus brief in that case to talk about how damaging the standard is, but I mean, I hear what you guys have to say and I feel like you're way more well-versed than everyone. ​​in it that if the final point, these cases have a correct point, which is to gain what you know.

Byron Allen seems to get concessions from Comcast, so I understand the kind of heat towards him, like you said, dr. car running the race hello Tim, so ultimately it ended up being just to enrich his pockets, but on this I leave you all doctor, a particularly new car and what the implications are now that the Supreme Court has ruled this way. was kicked to the Ninth Circuit and well, Aaron Allen basically dropped the case, that's what I'm interested in understanding, well the big thing is what you're dealing with, the Supreme Court has ruled, so actually, Greg, you would have to have Congress. to redefine, I guess that law to fix it or put it back in its place was there before it got so difficult.

We spent a lot of time on this when I taught in 1981 at Howard Law School. We can deal with this. What has happened now? It's just that they've already

settle

d, so it's moved, but the district court would then re-examine whether or not Allen met that burden, so really, in a way, the Supreme Court went back to the court. district to take up what Ricci has just stated. the district court would then re-examine it and determine whether or not Allen met the contra-fá standard. Now let's say they said yes or they said no, then it would go back to the Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit would get another bite at Apple, so ultimately it would go back to the Court of Appeals, I mean, yeah, to the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court again, but but but he threatened her while Kristen accompanied us. as Derek guided us when you talked about it when they made the decision, the threat is that once, as we heard Erika say you, but for the standard, that is an almost impossible standard to reach and now you have left it in the hands of the judges again.

Why do elections matter? They are still replacing district court judges. So a judge will now determine and there is no way for Congress to strengthen that law. other rights positive rights and being treated as if he were a white man, but between the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and today, courts have interpreted that to apply even to whites, thus neutralizing the idea that whiteness becomes in a standard that applies to black people and reinforcing the The power of whiteness in the yard with the statue literally says what it says on its face, so what I'm saying is all of that to say that brother brother.

I seem to remember a little comedy show where you were the token black guy called real people if being real and real, as you say roll, recognize real, you bet that you could use the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to get more money and in the process he put us in danger and by reaching an agreement at least he withdrew before the courts got another The body simply Apple and got a better alignment arrested a ship because if you don't vote and the wrong person comes in and they put some judges on you Plus, you don't want the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to go to court because we can all predict what will happen the next time it comes up.

I remember when we had Byron Allen on the show, this was in December. John Hope Bryant found it. Operation Hope had posted a video saying, look, this is a dispute between a private party. The company and Comcast Byron Allen said on the show that John Hope Bryant's analysis was incorrect after today's news. John Hope Bryant released this video, a very, very insightful connected person in America who let me know that, like I've been saying, barn Allen, so I was, you know. I made this video a year ago, a year ago, eight months ago, six months ago, something and I mean, people were like, hey Lamont, hey Rokita, people were just John, you don't know what you're talking about and It is about civil and social rights. justice and this has to go to the Supreme Court because no one is doing it, you know, this is about all of us and I kept saying, look, all of us are not shareholders, I borrowed Alan's company, all of us are not going to get money . and barring the successes he'll have, this isn't about all of us, it's about his wallet, which, by the way, is fine.

I want the brother to be successful. I mean, I hadn't seen Brian Allen in the black community before the last year. I never see my brother Barrett get robbed at a resort when I go once or twice a year, which is great by the way, oh well, but he shows up in the community writing checks and at non-profits and organizations Let's see if that continues, by the way, part of what I want to say here and I want to see, I want to see this generosity that has just been a small cut shared with all the people who supported them and if it does, I am more than happy, but I doubt he will do what I do.

I'm going to suggest, so look, what I said is that you have four types of people, hunters, gatherers, hunters, you know, Skinner, gatherers and cooks, and then you have spectators. I will repeat that there are no details on my new book coming out in October since anything before. -ask now hunter and no, I'm not, this is not about you buying my book, you're careless, you buy the book, no, I'll give you the book hunters, I'm a hundred, the right scanner, collect, okay, that The type of analysts, reviewers, underwriters is beginning, you know the company's accountants and the cooks well, and those are the people who prepare the product in a company in a house, of course, the cook is, you know to the person who takes the house and makes it a home, everyone has a role. the concern was black america in this situation it was just the viewer we are on social media where we protest where we are blogging we will write the stories we go to the media we win we win what did we do? win, let me, let me explain this, explain it, don't explain it, explain it, this is a basic business disagreement.

Comcast had put other blacks on their network, like I said before, they just decided not to take their show off the network for whatever reason they had. He said that. it was

discrimination

okay try it yeah its a

racial

discrimination

lawsuit between you and Comcast go get it and if you win I'm sure there are people like every company that are backwards at Comcast like every company , because people work backwards, I'm sure this amide working backwards in operations, although I don't know anything about the background, they're gone, so you do business with people, of course, they're backwards people everywhere, like that , like that, like that, for you to be able to prove it, I should have bought, you know, a

racial

discrimination lawsuit. take this all the way to the Supreme Court where the only thing black people can do is lose once you lose, the Supreme Court is a new established precedent and the bar is hidden for true civil rights.

This is a case of some rights andYou know you can see. all of John's videos about a 12 minute video on his Facebook page, so he certainly shared his thoughts there saying: I told you so Reesey Erica. I know Greg had to go, so just the final comments on the topic, go ahead, well, I mean, he brought it up. what's at stake and basically ruined black America for all you know what you just presented so shame on him that's my final comment yeah very telling and then it also goes back to some from the comments we saw on social networks.

Recently when the Justice Policing Reform Act was implemented and people were more involved with Kente weaving than actual politics, so I think it's really another way of pointing us in the direction to really keep our eyes on the prize and be more students when it comes to what the problem is and not just really the shiny, the shiny ball, okay guys, um, so we'll see what happens in the next love to get Byron back on the show, but with luck we will do it. He wrote that letter a few days ago and talked about laying out his 10-point plan in terms of what black America should demand in this in the wake of George Floyd's death and you haven't seen it, be sure to check those out. wonderful headphones, 360 degree 4D headphones that have fantastic or amazing sound, we have a partnership. with them people where if you get these headphones you can use their promo code to get a discount so what you do is use our em VIP 2020 RM VIP 2020 for these particular headphones they are absolutely fabulous they sound great and again when you buy them you are supporting a black owned business go comedy cek dot-com thats c ee k dot c om trust me you will definitely enjoy how they sound.