Dear Ones, If you're not interested in ending weight based bullying that disproportionally affects people of color, please just delete. Others read on: Regarding this media project: If you've already signed and shared the change. org petition asking First Lady Michelle Obama to NOT appear on The Biggest Loser but instead engage with professionals working to end weight-based bullying (proportionally, more people of color are fat so it's a race/ethnicity issue too!) (http://www.change.org/petitions/first-lady-michelle- obama-please-do-not-appear-on- the-biggest-loser-and-instead- engage-with-the-advocacy- communities-specializing-in- weight-stigma) thank you! If you've already viewed and shared the 8 minute video message asking Mrs. Obama to NOT appear on The Biggest Loser (http://www.change.org/ petitions/first-lady-michelle- obama-please-do-not-appear-on- the-biggest-loser-and-instead- engage-with-the-advocacy- communities-specializing-in- weight-stigma) thank you! NOW PLEASE CALL THE WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE and SAY THE SAME thing: 202-456-1111. NOW PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL MESSAGE TO THE WHITE HOUSE saying the same thing: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments. The subject should be "First Family". NOW PLEASE SEND A LETTER TO FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA saying the same thing, be sure to include your email address in the letter you neatly write, or type/print out and mail to her at: White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Washington, DC 20500. NOW PLEASE SHARE THIS POST TOO. If this work regarding this television show and/or ending bullying and/or weight stigma is part of your job, research interest, etc., it should be okay to express these recommendation through your work place. It is NON-partisan. If not, please do all these using your personal modes of communication. Thanks! -- Know Justice; Know Peace, Rev. Dr. E-K. Daufin Professor of Communications Alabama State University National Media Size Equity Expert Winner -- 2000 MaryAnn Yodelis-Smith Research Award AEJMC CSW AEJMC MAC Membership Chair 915 S. Jackson St., MTG, AL 36101-0271 334-229-6885 *Follow me to my home country where the definitions are daufinations at:* http://daufination.blogspot.com http://pinterest.com/ekdaufin/ and www.home.earthlink.net/~ekdaufin *Your research and creative activity referrals are welcomed.* *With all my heat & heart I want to work with and for kind, competent, strong people who love and help me and I they. Ashe!*