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Why blacks are urging a Black Friday boycott
CNN ^ | November 27, 2014 | Soledad O'Brien and Rose Arce

Posted on 11/27/2014 5:36:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Once again, the streets are electric with anger after a white police officer evades charges for fatally shooting a black man. Sirens screech and wood batons push back marchers protesting from Missouri to New York to Los Angeles. This time the cadence of "No Justice, No Peace" has been replaced with "Hand's Up. Don't Shoot."

But there was another sign raised above the crowd in a recent protest in New York: "Doing Nothing with Saying Nothing. Changes Nothing." The mathematics of this one are clear. Something's gotta give.

A loose network led by African Americans in the film and arts world has emerged from the fog of tear gas to call for a quiet riot in response: a boycott of Black Friday shopping.

Ryan Coogler, who directed the 2013 film about police brutality called "Fruitvale Station," told us he was confounded by the eruptions of "human rights violations committed by public servants."

"There are three ways you can express yourself," Coogler said. "You can vote. You can protest. You can choose how you spend your money that goes to America's corporations that hold a lot of power."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: blackfriday; blacks; boycott; ferguson
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To: MeshugeMikey

I'll see you and raise you one.

21 posted on 11/27/2014 5:49:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Really, really stuck on stupid.


22 posted on 11/27/2014 5:51:05 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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23 posted on 11/27/2014 5:56:07 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the mean time, in a city near me, W-M is hiring uniformed cops as greeters, starting tonight to act as “Greeters” to check receipts at the door to keep big screen t.v.s from walking out the door.

These cops are making $50 per hour. W-M figures it’s cheaper than the dozen or so big screens they lose every year.


24 posted on 11/27/2014 5:58:14 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. Ps 34:3)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

25 posted on 11/27/2014 5:59:52 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blacks are boycotting Black Friday? I guess they are waiting for the next 100% off looting sale...


26 posted on 11/27/2014 6:00:24 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WHERE DA FOOD BE AT,,,,??

he doesnt LOOK likes hes missed many meals in the last 18 years does he.


27 posted on 11/27/2014 6:03:33 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Too late. The "community" has already been at the doorbuster sales.


28 posted on 11/27/2014 6:04:08 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

FREE Thanksgiving Bling FO Evuhbuddy


29 posted on 11/27/2014 6:04:22 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good, they will have more taxpayer money to spend on dope.

In Indy they are just walking into Walmart, stealing TV’s at gunpoint. That isn’t called shopping.


30 posted on 11/27/2014 6:04:25 PM PST by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They fail to realize they are about 12% of the total population and the impact of their boycott may be fewer five finger discounts at wally world.


31 posted on 11/27/2014 6:05:51 PM PST by pfflier
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What would America miss if Blacks left the country? Outside of sports, not much. And we would save trillions in welfare subsidies, remedial education programs, the criminal justice system, and prisons, while enjoying a much lower crime rate and a more citizen culture.

Why should we keep paying for the sins of African warlords, English slavers, and Southern plantation owners of 200 years ago? We have paid too much for too little value.


32 posted on 11/27/2014 6:07:01 PM PST by txrefugee
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Only a fool would say that.


33 posted on 11/27/2014 6:09:52 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet



34 posted on 11/27/2014 6:10:47 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Easy for them to do. They’ve already done most of their “shopping”.

So will it be called Black Free Friday?


35 posted on 11/27/2014 6:11:41 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: RightGeek

Boxers or briefs? I really didn’t want to know... I’m trying to know if they know what the underwear showing means..


36 posted on 11/27/2014 6:12:49 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nah, because they can’t buy flat screen or Air Jordan’s with an EBT card.


37 posted on 11/27/2014 6:13:26 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Less of a crowd! Oh! Goody! Goody! Goody!


38 posted on 11/27/2014 6:14:51 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Graybeard58

Walmart means business this year. Went in for diapers for a grand baby today, and our local Super Walmart was cordoned off with crime scene tape making lanes that all shoppers must stay in, every register guarded by uniformed security. No wonder the looters want to boycott.


39 posted on 11/27/2014 6:14:52 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Magic Fingers

I think that is satire


40 posted on 11/27/2014 6:14:57 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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