Posted on 10/09/2006 11:52:27 AM PDT by 300magnum
For Kitty Green of St. Helena Island, the NAACP’s call for an economic boycott of the state seven years ago was a “slap in the face.”
While the teacher-turned-entrepreneur supports the civil rights organization’s effort to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds, the sanctions hit her business hard.
Now some members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are questioning whether it’s good policy to continue the boycott. In 2000, the flag was moved from atop the State House dome to a monument in front of the capitol, and there’s no plan to move it again.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
Random question -- does anyone know if the NAALCP has ever boycotted Six Flags amusement parks for displaying the Confederate Flag?
personally I wish the boycott would have worked for Black Bike Week....what a mess that thing is...BTW some restaurant owners that shut down during that week were threatened with discrimination law suits but I don't know the outcome....anybody ever hear what happened on that?....also BTW I stopped by Maurices' BBQ in Columbia on Saturday and he still shows the good ole Stars and Bars on his bottled sauce...
The FReepers at this event were:
flib and her friend Amy. There were just to the left of the moonbats.
Tax Relief, yours truly and the FReeping Dog. We were across the street where this pix was taken from.
This FReep takes place the first Wed of each month from 5-6pm in front of the state capitol in Columbia. Come join us.
What? The NAA(L)CP is boycotting South Carolina? Who'da thunk it?
I never noticed when I visited my true home in the Holy City of Charleston, SC.
I was there on October 4th with Flib and two others.
Pix?
I can't respond to your comment as I wasn't at the Oct 4th FReep. Sorry I had to miss it.
The Farkin NAACP is a lost organization. They'd be better off trying to improve the financial and social standing of Black America than their constant BS of digging up old dead issues.
Not sure what happened with those lawsuits, but I remember they filed another one when the city closed bridges to the beachside - they were over capacity and posed a risk should first responders be required.
"IMO, discrimination should be legal so long as it's not the government doing it."
Unfortunately, the Civil Rights Act of 1964--and never was a law more misappellated--puts the lie to that statement. If I want to ban Whitey, or White Boy, or WASPs, from my place of business, I can be put out of business on the grounds that it is a 'public accommodation.'
Let me know when you see the law enforced in that fashion, however, because according to the left, only white folks can discriminate illegally (since only those with power can be racist, donchaknow, it's in the definition somewhere), and white males seem to be the most likely to do so.
You missed a great '()' opportunity in the thread title.
"Since African-Americans were getting only a small piece of the tourism pie anyway, Green said, the boycott hurt them even more."
(World ends, women, minorities hardest hit).
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