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America’s Voice successfully raised enough money to produce and purchase on-air time for their Drop Dobbs television ad.

The plan was to pay the $16,000 it cost to place the ad during CNN’s Latino in America Series next week. Claro the show will be surrounded by Spanglish ads urging you to buy from Walmart with it’s horrible treatment of workers and eat McDonald’s with it’s horrible treatment of animals and your body. But air an ad that has something to say and is trying to sell a message of truth? Not CNN. They rejected America’s Voice money and ad.

I don’t have cable so I don’t watch CNN and I had no intention of watching the series, Latino in America. Given the criticisms I heard and read about the CNN series Black in America, I already had made up my mind that the show likely wouldn’t represent with any accuracy what the Latino experience was for me, my familia, my friends, and vecinos. The hypocrisy of a network that poses itself as a fair and balanced news leader,airing a series on Latinidad while paying the salary of a the hateful Dobbs, whose rhetoric gives both the government and individuals justification for hate crimes against Latinos, especially Latino immigrants, grows. As Nezua wrote, CNN doesn’t really care about what it really means to be Latino in America. Maybe it’s time not just to drop Dobbs but to drop CNN.