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After Five Years, NAACP Boycott of South Carolina Is Having Little Success
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| 12JUN05
| Allen G Breed
Posted on 06/12/2005 3:25:21 PM PDT by QwertyKPH
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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.
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:25:21 PM PDT
by
QwertyKPH
To: QwertyKPH
New title "Showing the Poverty Pimps the Pimp Hand"
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:30:11 PM PDT
by
evolved_rage
(Segway, for those too fat to walk...very far.)
To: QwertyKPH
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.
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:31:35 PM PDT
by
Future Snake Eater
(The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
To: QwertyKPH
There's a boycott?
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:32:44 PM PDT
by
roylene
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.
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:34:02 PM PDT
by
AmericanArchConservative
(Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
To: QwertyKPH
The NAACP put itself out of business with it's excesses.
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:34:10 PM PDT
by
ProudVet77
(NASCAR - Because it's the way Americans drive.)
To: Future Snake Eater
Everyone should ignore the NAACP. There's no point in listening to anything they say any more. (Like there ever was.)
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:37:46 PM PDT
by
QwertyKPH
(Non-profane tagline)
To: QwertyKPH
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.''
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:39:59 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: AmericanArchConservative
To: AmericanArchConservative
To: QwertyKPH
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!
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:49:03 PM PDT
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right, but never in doubt.)
To: QwertyKPH
``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!
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:51:02 PM PDT
by
Randjuke
To: 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.
To: 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; Abbeville Conservative; acf2906; ...
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:54:34 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
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!
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posted on
06/12/2005 3:57:27 PM PDT
by
buckeyesrule
(God bless Condi Rice!)
To: 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.
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?
To: USAfearsnobody
They were waving the flag of the union long before they hijacked our flag.
To: USAfearsnobody
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.
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posted on
06/12/2005 4:15:20 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: roylene
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.
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posted on
06/12/2005 4:17:04 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?)
To: 2nd amendment mama
What if they had a boycott, and everyone came---LOL!
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posted on
06/12/2005 4:19:26 PM PDT
by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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