THERE has been a call for the DUP to remove the whip from Gregory Campbell following comments about the number of black people on a TV programme.
Alliance leader Stephen Farry said "every party in Great Britain" would remove the whip in such circumstances and challenged the DUP to do the same.
Sinn Féin said it has reported the comments to the standards commissioner at the House of Commons.
Anti-racism and ethnic minority organisations have also called on Mr Campbell to apologise.
The East Derry MP made the comments on a Facebook post on January 31, when he described an edition of Songs of Praise as "the BBC at its BLM (Black Lives Matter) worst".
The programme featured the semi-final of the Gospel Singer of the Year competition.
Mr Campbell wrote: "There were five singers, all of them black. There were three judges all of them black and one presenter who was incidentally, yes black.
"The singers were all very good but can you imagine an all white line up with an all white jury and presented by a white person? No I can't either."
The North West Migrants Forum said a statement, along with 1,000 signatures, will be hand-delivered by a group of six black women to the MP's constituency office.
It has been signed by groups including Belfast Islamic Centre, Belfast Multi-Cultural Association and Amnesty International NI.
The statement calls on Mr Campbell to withdraw his comments and issue a full public apology.
It said it was "both astonishing and shocking" that he watched the programme which was "full of love and praise for God and saw only skin colour".
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"Mr Campbell's statement is not a trivial matter; it is deeply irresponsible.
"Given his role as an elected representative and public servant, Mr Campbell’s statement cannot go unchallenged; the potential costs are too high.
"Just weeks since the horrific attack on the Belfast Multicultural Association, it is alarming that a political leader thinks it appropriate to use this kind of race-baiting to secure some sort of perceived political advantage, regardless of the consequences."
The group called on DUP leader Arlene Foster to "ensure that he is held accountable for his words".
Last night hundreds more people had signed an online link condemning the comments.
Sinn Féin East Derry MLA Caoimhe Archibald also described the Facebook post as "disgraceful" and said she had reported it to the standards commissioner at the House of Commons.
She said the comments do not reflect the views of the vast majority of the constituents he purports to represent.
The DUP was contacted yesterday for comment.
Mr Campbell was also criticised by Sinn Féin last year for a Facebook post about another BBC programme.
Referring to a story of a suspected German spy who had lived in Donegal during the Second World War and was reported to have spoken Irish with a German accent, he wrote: "I vill not be tempted to ask vot is dis curried yoghurt mein herr".
The East Derry MP was previously barred from addressing the assembly for a day in 2014 after saying "Curry my yoghurt can coca coalyer", in an apparent take on the Irish sentence "Go raibh maith agat, Ceann Comhairle" (thank you, Speaker).
