====Color of Change and Glenn Beck====
On his Fox News program, Glenn Beck declared (in 2009) to a guest that Obama is a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people," based on the present political situation and Obama's past. Declaring the comment to be racist in and of itself, the organization "Color of Change," a liberal activist group headed by current "green czar" [[Van Jones]] – a declared communist – wrote a large number of letters to the sponsors of Beck's program, demanding they distance themselves from the show and cease sponsoring. A number of these companies (Wal-Mart, GEICO, etc.) did just that. What they want to do is to make Beck a liability; James Rucker, Color of Change's executive director, stated in an interview "They have a toxic asset. They can either clean it up or get rid of it."<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_en_ot/us_tv_beck_s_advertisers;_ylt=Aj2_7MFUopZwh_fvkRpRlSOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNiNGZvZzNjBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODI0L3VzX3R2X2JlY2tfc19hZHZlcnRpc2VycwRjcG9zAzEwBHBvcwM3BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDMzNhZHZlcnRpc2Vy</ref>
Racism doesn't stop Color of Change from selling T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Kanye was Right,"<ref>http://www.zazzle.com/kanye_was_right_tshirt-235287472366274585</ref> referring to the hostile remarks made by rapper Kanye West during a fundraising for victims of [[Hurricane Katrina]] in September 2005, in which he declared that the federal response to the disaster was deliberately slow because the victims were black. "We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way — and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!" He added a moment later "George Bush doesn’t care about black people."<ref>https://www.newsmax.com/headlines/beck_bush_racist_kanye/2009/08/23/251371.html</ref><ref>http://www.defendglenn.com/behind_the_lies.html</ref>