A few minutes ago, I noticed a a flyer posted in the lobby of my (predominantly black) place of employment. The flyer was something about a National Blackout; curious, I went to Google when I returned to my desk.
Promoting a nationwide boycott of White-owned businesses because one little backwater town has an alleged racist bent? Doesn’t that sound a bit, ya’know, racist?
Well it sounds like they are saying to not buy anything from anyone, white or black.
However, if you fill up on Thursday, that will bump Thursdays sale and will even out Friday’s lack of sales.
So, it really won’t have any effect. or affect, which ever you prefer, I’m not racist.
I’m curious where you’re getting the “white owned” part from. Everybody knows all businesses patronized by blacks are run by Koreans. And I suspect that if this boycott does happen, those Korean store owners will react as they did in the Rodney King riots, only this time standing in the doorways of their stores and shooting at people who refuse to buy their wares.
From the link: “As we take money out of the pockets of white folks and corporate America, we should also put money into the pockets of our own people.”
This is supposed to make society take them seriously as a people and a race how?
I would help if you quoted that part of the artcle
How any of this will help in the defence of the Jenna 6 is still beyond me.
This will succeed only in inconveniencing the few blacks who take part. Americans, blacks included, have it too good these days to put themselves out for a cause en masse, especially one that’s no longer in the national spotlight. And how can you take anyone seriously who thinks that buying gas on Nov 1 not Nov 3 is going to accolplish anything?
And I personally have never seen a black owned gas station anywhere around where I live- where would my black neighbors buy their gas in support then? A station 20 miles away?
Didn’t want to run afoul of the Board’s copyright issues. 
Look what else I found: “We need to do more than refrain from buying and selling. For starters, we need to stop killing each other, and that includes paying abortionists to kill our children. Injustice is a blight on our land and we are right to protest it whenever and wherever it appears. The greatest injustice we face, though, is the denial of the right to life. Without life, no other rights exist. We need to spend National Black Out Day asking God to rid our nation of the evil of abortion.” - Dr. Alveda King, MLK’s niece.
I think you hit the nail on the head: it sounds like the old Gas Out thing disguised as racial protest.
Not to mention the protesters last time IIRC were told to buy anything you need before you get to this particular town. I imagine a lot of people stocked up on supplies at the town right before Jena, obviously failing to realize that probably some people who work in one live in the other, and if you see Jena as some racist hotbed, chances are a half mile down the road the people are similar minded, but you bought shit from them. It’s like driving down the highway to get there, this town Ok, this town Ok this one RACIST! this one OK, etc. 
The truly enterprising gas station owner would advertise “Guaranteed 100% racism free gas, only $5.00 a gallon!”
Why is my Spidey Scam Sense going off?
Lord knows that I’m reluctant to step in, because I don’t have the time to get into a protracted discussion about this (if it should get that far, that is), but…
I actually do think that it wouldn’t hurt the Black community if Blacks got back into the business (or, rather, post Civil Rights, *voluntarily * got into the business) of patronizing Black-owned businesses, but
These calls for Black-Outs, Gas-Outs, Whatever-Outs have, IIRC, been circulating for quite a few years now, and you know what? Nothing ever becomes of them. And I seriously doubt that this time will be any different.
Also,
Oh, and Thudlow Boink? Like they used to say: It’s about the money, honey. If I’m understanding your question correctly, the answer is a nuanced one, but by way of example: It’s my understanding that, during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the White business owners who were situated along the bus routes that Blacks were then boycotting lost so much money that they, even though they didn’t buy into the notion of Black equality, tried to negotiate an end to the boycott. IIRC, though, this was shortly before the SCOTUS handed down their ruling, thus obviating the need for a negotiated truce.
Sweet. Baby. Jesus. :rolleyes:
And that’s all I’m gonna say about this one, as saying anything else would SURELY get me in trouble. I don’t know with whom, but it’d definitely get me in trouble.
To have a boycott of business based only on the fact that they are white owned is racist, I believe. A more moderate version of encouraging black people to patronize black owned establishments I could get on board with. I would be a hypocrite not to, I personally patronize gay owned business when I can.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to support a certain segment of society, but when you go to the extreme of boycotts then I find it offensive.
Unless wikipedia is wrong, it says “Dr.” Alveda King has had two abortions, one with her consent, one without (no explanation given). So do as I say, not as I do I guess- what a hypocrite.
Eh, buy stock and join corporate America.
Li’l Pluck, you have officially been appointed the Black Spokeperson of the Month for November.
Please check in with jali, who was October’s Black Spokesperson (or Spokesmodel as he put it). He will forward you the sceptor and the bottomless jug of Thunderbird. Not having an abortion has nothing to do with justice (as some valid racial issues certainly do); if you don’t want to have an abortion, then don’t – King’s wiki entry notwithstanding.
Antinor01, I think your suggestion re a more effective thrust for a boycott is quite reasonable. The platform regarding abortion that was quoted, not so much.
No.
Hypocrisy would be if she preached against abortion while still having them, or secretly supporting them. Otherwise it is a change of heart or mind, which honest debate allows.