Posted on 03/23/2023 10:52:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
TAMPA, Fla. (WFTS) — It's what keeps Florida going; tourism. Visit Florida said 137.6 million people visited here in 2022, the most ever. In 2021, tourism brought $101.9 billion dollars into the state's economy.
"Florida is a nice place to be. You got your beaches, you got your tourists, you see people all over the world," said Gregory Franklin as he strolled the Tampa Riverwalk.
But the Florida State Chapter of the NAACP has its sights set on hitting the state where it hurts most.
"We are letting our voices be heard, and we are just letting people know that we're not gonna take it. We're not just gonna sit still. We're gonna stand up and we're gonna fight. And when we fight, we win," said Hillsborough County Chapter President Yvette Lewis.
Over the weekend, the Florida State NAACP unanimously voted to ask the NAACP National Board to issue a travel advisory. The advisory would ask people to forego visiting and moving to the sunshine state.
"Saying you don't want AP African American Studies here because they have certain topics in it, certain categories, certain words in it. You don't want companies to have the word diversity, equity and inclusion because it has institutional racism in their policy. You know, it takes us back. And we've been fighting so hard," Lewis said.
This isn't the first time a group has pushed for a travel advisory or boycott.
The NAACP issued a boycott of South Carolina in 1999 over the confederate flag being flown at the state's capitol building. It was lifted 15 years after the flag came down. However, that ban cost the state nearly two decades of NCAA tournaments, championships, and bowl games.
In Indiana, a 2015 boycott of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act cost the state more than $60 million dollars as organizers of conferences and other events chose to visit other locations, according to Forbes.
To visitor Gregory Franklin, this travel advisory could yield the same result.
"I think it could change in a way where it would, I believe the state will lose money," he said.
Lewis sees this as the opportunity to see change in Tallahassee.
"My hope is that they will roll back some of their thoughts, their ideas and some of these bills that target a specific race," she said.
The NAACP National Board reconvenes in May. That is the earliest they'll be able to discuss the travel advisory.
Judging by the representatives of the class of the NAACP, that would be a win for Florida.
Is it considered racist to state, that at this point in history, I can make a case for annihilation of one race and point out real benefits for society as a whole?
I have seen people saying kill all whites, hate asians, and that goes unpunished. No words from the NAACP telling their so called clients to STFU, and get a life. IMO, there is a war going on, and it is some black people, using the silence of the majority of those, and the encouragement of the MSM, are attempting to murder white people for the crime of being white.
If you cannot see how this will end, you should disband and form a less racist group. Maybe National Association for the Advancement of All People?
The NAAAP. It rolls off of the tongue, N triple A&P
“The advisory would ask people to forego visiting and moving to the sunshine state.”
Hilarious......imagine if a white Florida politician or Governor DeSantis issued the same advisory how it would be perceived.
Now that’s a boycott I can approve and encourage.
Weren’t the two spring break folks killed by blacks in FL a few days ago?
Encourage all your fine folks to visit Zimbabwe, to see what a Black Paradise really looks like.
Yep!..................
It’s great when negroes self segregate. The NAACP didn’t go far enough though. They should have also recommended that coloreds move away from Florida.
National Association for Advancement of COLORED people.......never understood that......call one colored and see what happens.
Sounds like a great idea. They should boycott NC also.
Some things have a way of working themselves out.
Please issue one for Montana too… but ‘they’ don’t like the outdoors, camping, fishing or hunting sooooo ‘they’ avoid MT anyway.
Brilliant! Hurting the state’s #1 industry is surely the best way to help black residents!
Rush called them the NAALCP - National Association for Advancement of Liberal Colored people
Best News EVER!!!!
😂. What? BLM is based on lies. The “history” they want to teach is cherry picked to make the country seem inherently evil at its core…. Whether slavery , the civil war, the civil rights movement, the founding fathers or modern day white on black crime…. Its garbage and deserves exactly what it got.
Too many out-of-control out-of-State blacks here in Florida.
Great news! Most of the violence in South Beach is coming from black thugs.
What does the COP of Miami Beach say?
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