Posted on 11/25/2016 4:12:33 AM PST by markomalley
Black Lives Matter and other groups plan to block white-owned Chicago stores on Black Friday to bring awareness about police shootings, economic issues and alleged racism.
Local churches, Black Lives Matter and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression will block stores along Michigan Avenue and prevent customers from entering stores for the second year in a row, reports Crain’s Chicago Business.
A big part of the protest is to force on people that it’s important to shop at businesses that aren’t owned by white men, Kimberly Veal, a leader of Black Lives Matter, said. It’s not yet known who owns the businesses that will be targeted as part of this effort.
“One of the cornerstones about why we’re boycotting on Black Friday is to attempt to redirect people to businesses owned by people of color and women, and explain why it’s important to patronize these businesses,” Veal explained.
Last year, protesters blocked shoppers from entering stores on Black Friday to protest the death of Laquan McDonald, a black teen shot 16 times by an officer. Dash cam video revealed the teen ignoring officer commands to stop as he walked away from officers with a knife in his hands.
Police had to help shoppers get into the stores; as one person tried to enter, protesters screamed “Shut it down! Shut it down!”
After last year’s protest, stores’ sales were 25 to 50 percent below their expected projections, according to staff and managers.
A sales associate at Aldo said that her store under-performed by $18,000.
“We were down a lot. We were budgeted to make $37,000 but we only did $19,000 — customers told us they were concerned,”said Sarah Midoun.
One of the protest organizer hopes that this year’s protest will have a larger turnout.
“We’re expecting a bigger turnout this year, though this is not an exact science. The reason we’re looking for a bigger turnout is that Trump is the president-elect and, boy, are people pissed,”Frank Chapman, a field organizer with one of the organizations involved, said.
He added that not only race brings the protesters together. “We’ve been calling everyone who has a grievance: the African-American community, Latino people, the white working class,” Chapman explained. “I’m not going to write the white working class off as racist.”
:: shop at businesses that aren’t owned by white men ::
Sure!
Every shopper should be directed to the South side, say, 111th and Ford Freeway. Plenty of strip-malls throughout.
Stop in, get an Arizona Iced-Tea, Skittles and Robitussin.
Exactly. Lock them up. Tell the liberal mayors and police commissioners to shut up and let the cops do what they were hired to do. Surrounding these protesters and arresting every single person in the crowd would have stopped this stupidity a long time ago.
RICO act, interstate racketeering...
Long holiday weekend. Any guess on the number of shootings in Chicago over the next few days? Guaranteed there will be at least one killing over a turkey leg.
White owned stores should beat them at their game by putting their best Black Friday sales online.
Mall businesses are stuck between a rock and a hard place; the former clients (American taxpayers) either have no money left to shop or the tech savvy to do it via computers, so they end up catering to the lowest common denominator (bipedal mammals with a pulse and some means to pay - usually provided by the former). The last few times I’ve been to malls (very few times, over several years), I was shocked at how much space was dedicated to food. Besides the central food court and outlying restaurants on the fringe, more and more of the kiosks in the center of the main hallways had gone from selling various small items to some variation of fast food (candy, pretzels in various forms, etc.). The malls were filled with imported foreigners, a few Americans, and pockets of Afro-gypsies - and nobody seemed to be carrying packages (as though they were window-shopping and/or eating). I knew it was over for a nearby mall when space (of which plenty was available) was rented by a tattoo parlor...
They conveniently "disappeared" as did Barack Hussein Obama's black separatist hate mongering preacher for 8.5 years.
“Plenty of strip-malls throughout. Stop in, get an Arizona Iced-Tea, Skittles and Robitussin.”......
You left off getting mugged, raped (In some cases) and/or shot. An “area of opportunity” too be avoided at all cost!
Enjoy your last 2 mos in the sun BLM.
Pray America woke
If BLM protesters use violence or threatens the lives of customers, then shoot the BLM protesters, declare BLM domestic terrorists, and investigate their financing and coordination ties.
The original BLM strategy was to boycott white-owned businesses. Then it finally dawned on them that their inner city constituency doesn’t have or spend enough money for a boycott to have any effect on profits whatsoever. Their solution? Stop whites from spending money at businesses?
To paraphrase “President Unselect”:
I have a tongue and I have a cheek. And, I’m going to use them!
The left is so scared. It’s about time they felt that way. I am loving this.
They are going to get killed by shoppers
IDIOTS, most malls are muzzie owned now.
I’m sorry, those black mom’s and dad’s will just trample over them to get to a supposed bargain on those last year’s 60 in TV’s.
I am boycotting Afro Sheen and re-runs of Soul Train!
LOL!
How is hurting business owners supposed to fix purported racism?
They are the racists, creating negative feelings when there were none before.
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They NEVER stop to think about that. Let’s see. If I prevent people from shopping on Black Friday, that will make them more tolerant towards black folks.
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