After Five Years, NAACP Boycott of South Carolina Is Having Little Success

blacknews ^ | 12JUN05 | Allen G Breed

[QwertyKPH]

The NAACP actually tried to boycoot an entire state. Not very bright if you ask me. What about all the local people of color? They're part of the economy too. This kind of silliness hurts the ones they're trying to help.

[evolved_rage]

New title "Showing the Poverty Pimps the Pimp Hand"

[Future Snake Eater]

This kind of silliness hurts the ones they're trying to help.

More importantly, it clearly demonstrates the apathy towards the NAACP and its demands.

They should never be taken seriously again.

[roylene]

There's a boycott?

[AmericanArchConservative]

Two cuties out struttin' it in bikinis in this story, and NO photos? Isn't there some kind of rule about that sort of thing on FR?

I'm bein' discriminated against! I protest!!

A.A.C.

[ProudVet77]

The NAACP put itself out of business with it's excesses.

[QwertyKPH]

Everyone should ignore the NAACP. There's no point in listening to anything they say any more. (Like there ever was.)

[tet68]

This says it all.

``It's silly,'' said Hunt, a criminal justice student at Fayetteville State University. ``It's a new millennium. Everybody's not worried about a flag.''

[USAfearsnobody]

This photo sounds familiar. I saw something like this on a FReeper's profile... Found it.
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050601/capt.scwg60106012117.naacp_boycott_scwg601

[USAfearsnobody]

http://www.freerepublic.com/~cyborg/

[Wally_Kalbacken]

What I'm waiting for is and honest cost-benefit analysis of a boycott effort.

Take the example of Arizona and the MLK, Jr. holiday. I believe that the NFL was going to pull Superbowl XXX if the MLK holiday was not implemented. All the press coverage calculated the value of the Superbowl, the impact on hotels, room taxes, restaurants, etc. etc. etc. But the reality was not zero business in the absence of the Superbowl - it could have been the American Dog Breeders Association conference and tons of professional meetings, etc. etc. etc. Not necessarily as valuable as the Superbowl - but no doubt the presence of the Superbowl in a given city on a given date - deflects some discretionary travel away from that location (e.g. - I'm not going to Atlanta, are you kidding? With the superbowl there that week the place will be nuts, let's go to Phoenix instead.") Someone should be calculating the net value of event X not being held in a given city or state.

The initial coverage of the NAACP effort assumed a great deal - and vastly overstated the dollar impact. It also vastly overstated the ignorance of some people, such as those mentioned in the lead, completely unaware of the existence of the boycott in the first place. Sheesh!

[Randjuke]

``Most of the people working in these hotels, cleaning the rooms, sitting at the front desk are African-American. So if we don't come down here, then we're taking money out of their pocket and food off their table. How's that helping us as a whole?''

Yes! Common sense is breaking out all over!

[SouthernFreebird]

Right...that's a Dixie flag not a white flag and Blacks are very much a part of Dixie and should wear it proudly.

[upchuck]

South Carolina Ping

Add me to the ping list. Remove me from the ping list.

[buckeyesrule]

What's so amusing about that is that if you worked in the NFL Headquarters in NYC you did not have MLK day off. Go figure!

[USAfearsnobody]

Right...that's a Dixie flag not a white flag and Blacks are very much a part of Dixie and should wear it proudly.

I agree, even as someone not from down south.

But why does the KKK and such other white groups wave it around during their ceremonies?

[SouthernFreebird]

They were waving the flag of the union long before they hijacked our flag.

[Graybeard58]

But why does the KKK and such other white groups wave it around during their ceremonies?

Because even the a-hole kkk is free to do so.

[SamAdams76]

That was my question! Boycott? What boycott?

And I was just down there a few months ago spending lots of tourist dollars in Charleston and Hilton Head.

Next time I travel there on vacation, I'll be sure to boycott. If I remember.

[basil]

What if they had a boycott, and everyone came---LOL!