Posted on 09/25/2016 8:58:50 AM PDT by rktman
Actor Isaiah Washington is calling on African-Americans to protest the recent killings of black men by police in a very different way.
Washington took to Facebook on Tuesday to suggest that African-Americans across the United States boycott showing up for work on Monday to show that black lives matter in the wake of recent police brutality.
"Imagine if every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted, would pick ONE DAY to simply 'stay at home' from every single job, work site, sports arena and government office in the United States of America," he wrote to his thousands of followers.
"I'm very sure that within 72 hours from Wall Street to the NFL...Black Lives Would Matter. September 26, 2016 is THE DAY," the former "Grey's Anatomy" star continued.
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He was fired from the show in 2007 for a Gay slur.
Many years ago I worked for the IRS, (yeah, I know). They had a data center in Detroit. All the black employees there took Martin Luther King’s birthday off years before it was a declared holiday. They just didn’t show up, and nothing was done to them. Kind of like now.
Imagine if all white people stayed home.
Same garbage went on during the 60s
Who? Who is Isaiah Washington? I seriously don’t know.
Start with the NFL players refusing to play. That would get real attention and would raise the level of US culture, at least temporarily. And I’m sure it would bring a lot of sympathy to BLM. /s
I’ll take your word for it. Never watched that show or any of Spike Lee’s films.
I don’t know either. But from past practice, guessing prolly just an unemployed actor sending out a coded `May Day’ to Hollyweird casting directors.
Fire their asses.
Take your phony “social justice” issues on your own time. And continue to stay permanently ensconced at the bottom of the socio-economic barrel by your own actions
Well, that would shut the government civil service down ...
@IWashington @jsenk @TheEconomist @WSJ @BBC @guardian @AJEnglish @AP @PaulKagame @cnnturk WOULD BEATING WHITES IN NC BE CONSIDERED A JOB?
@IWashington @jsenk @TheEconomist @BBC @guardian @AJEnglish @AP @PaulKagame @cnnturk NO Wasteful PUBLIC SECTOR WORTHLESS WORKERS!! GREAT!!
I like it. Lets go one better, how about all of them everywhere take off UNTIL black lives matter...
And lets have the police take off the same amount of time...
THAT will really show if black lives matter...
To quote President Trump, “You’re fired!”
I don’t watch them either but when it happened it was all over the news.
No players would be even more reason to turn off the tv.
No big loss.
African-Americans should boycott work?????Did she mean all three of them??
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