Black Lives Matter calls for month-long boycott of 'white companies' during the holiday season to support 'Black Xmas' and end 'White-supremacist-capitalism'

Daily Mail ^ | Dec. 1, 2021 | driana Diaz

[rickmichaels]

The Black Live Matter movement has announced its seventh year of boycotting 'white companies' during the holiday season to support 'Black Xmas.'

On Black Friday, the official Black Lives Matter Global Network shared an Instagram post calling to 'support Black-led-Black-serving organizations.'

'We're dreaming of a #BlackXmas. That means no spending with white companies' from Black Friday until New Years Day the official blackxmas.org site states.

The group suggest three ways for its supporters to take part in Black Xmas: Build Black, Buy Black, and Bank Black.

The group is encouraging its followers to 'buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses' claiming 'white-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life.'

It also push its supporters make donations to 'Black-led, Black-serving organizations' in lieu of holiday gifts and move their money from 'white corporate banks (that finance gentrification, prisons, and environmental degradation) to Black-owned ones.'

Black Xmas begun in 2014 in response to the police shooting of John Crawford, a black man who was fatally shot in an Ohio Walmart while holding a BB gun that was for sale in the store.

A post on the Black Lives Matter website list several other names including Steven Taylor, who was also killed inside a Walmart, Yuvette Henderson and Redel Jones, 'Black mothers who were accused of petty thefts before their lives were stolen by police,' and Albert Ramon Dorsey and Dennis Todd Rogers 'who were gunned down when 24-Hour-Fitness locations called in police on Black male patrons.'

A blog post published on the blacklivesmatter.com last week explains: 'Black Lives Matter has been challenging people to 'dream of a #BlackXmas,' to intentionally use our economic resources to disrupt white-supremacist-capitalism and build Black community.'

[blueplum]

LOL - so it’s let’s go back to black side of towns segregation? and then in 50 years, they can point fingers and say - look - black sides of town existed bad white people

BLM is a joke, but considering most of them are grade-school dropouts, their brilliant ideas are not surprising

[WVNan]

Dear Lord, if you want a black country, I’ve heard of a country named Afrika. America has a culture of freedom. Anyone can succeed if they work at it. I don’t understand black’s complaints, knowing that there is a whole continent across the water that is much larger than America and occupied by black people. Why do you stay where you are so unhappy? If I were that unhappy here I would go to England or Ireland.

[blueplum]

637,769 were Black owned. Ninety-six percent of Black-owned businesses were nonemployer firms, compared to 80% of all small businesses.
https://www.investopedia.com/black-owned-public-companies-5076818

(nonemployer firms means one man show meaning low productivity)

investopedia laments that only 5% of all businesses are black-owned with a population share of 14%. One third of black-owned businesses are health-care related and 96% have no employees other than the proprietor.