Posted on 11/27/2014 5:36:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Once again, the streets are electric with anger after a white police officer evades charges for fatally shooting a black man. Sirens screech and wood batons push back marchers protesting from Missouri to New York to Los Angeles. This time the cadence of "No Justice, No Peace" has been replaced with "Hand's Up. Don't Shoot."
But there was another sign raised above the crowd in a recent protest in New York: "Doing Nothing with Saying Nothing. Changes Nothing." The mathematics of this one are clear. Something's gotta give.
A loose network led by African Americans in the film and arts world has emerged from the fog of tear gas to call for a quiet riot in response: a boycott of Black Friday shopping.
Ryan Coogler, who directed the 2013 film about police brutality called "Fruitvale Station," told us he was confounded by the eruptions of "human rights violations committed by public servants."
"There are three ways you can express yourself," Coogler said. "You can vote. You can protest. You can choose how you spend your money that goes to America's corporations that hold a lot of power."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
If makes more sense to stop having police protection given to ‘THE COMMUNITY’...
Why risk the lives of police officers?
That boy looks very shootable.
No shoplifting or looting tomorrow!!!???
Wow, that’s mighty white of them.
Magic Fingers is a major dude with half a heart to tell you, my friend.
“Why should we keep paying for the sins of African warlords, English slavers, and Southern plantation owners of 200 years ago?”
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/summer2010/features/slavery.html
“Massachusetts became the first colony to legalize human bondage when it established the Body of Liberties, its first code of laws, in 1641. From that time until the state proscribed slavery in 1783, the slave trade was big business in the North, particularly in Boston and Rhode Island. Fully three-quarters of all New England exports circa 1770 were linked to it. Most slave ships were built in the region, and the bulk of the exported livestock, sawn boards, and grains went to the Caribbean to support the production of sugar, the raw material essential to the making of rum, the favored medium of exchange for buying slaves. More than four-fifths of the rum distilled went to Africa.”
http://www.academia.edu/2299629/RUM_AND_THE_AFRICAN_SLAVE_TRADE_-_THE_CURRENCY_OF_NEW_ENGLAND
“Molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process, was initially just productionrefuse until some inventive Celtic worker in Barbados thought it could be fermented anddistilled into a alcoholic spirit (Williams xiv). It was this spirit that fueled the slave tradebecause of its profitability, portability, trade capability, and its distance to the source of itsproduction kept it conveniently out of site, allowed New England and citizens to prosper without having to directly dirty their hands in the horrendous slave trade”
If all the ratchet blacks would stay home on Black Friday I’d consider going shopping. I mean, not having to worry about purse snatching a and fights breaking out makes it better.
Store detectives are going to feel like Maytag repairmen.
my husband if going to Cabelas for their 5am opening....I'm sure there will be a ton of people there...
I like the way you think.
Extortion works just ask the pez head al sharpton he’s made a living from it
I think a lot of people feel the same; they’ve had “one of their own” in the White House for six years, and have fallen even farther behind (costing us a ton in the meantime). American taxpayers are tired of watching them bite the hand that feeds, clothes, houses, and schools them; any nonsense about them catching up or assimilating has been exploded by the inconvenient truth on our TV screens.
“The only way to hurt the big retailers is to convince a large number of people to not spend at all or to greatly reduce spending during the holidays...that is not likely.”
In this economy I think that will occur naturally; working people with families are getting crushed paying their normal operating bills (groceries, rent/mortgage, etc.). Between online shopping (which saves a lot of money, and prevents the shopper from dealing with menaces at the mall) and gift cards (which while sold upfront, can be redeemed much later), I think brick-and-mortar stores have had slimmer returns on the holidays for years now.
The last few times I’ve been to malls (over the space of years - I rarely go), I was surprised by 1) how many foreigners are milling about, compared to a dearth of “Anglos”, and 2) how few of the people there had any purchases in their hands (as though they were simply window-shopping). Nowadays malls are a display case, where you see what you need, then order it online at a lower price from somewhere else...
Good post! The current administration has thrown this community under the bus for the replacement illegal minorities coming to the USA. They don’t want to admit it. Get over the 300 years of bondage & move on!
Here in NJ they are getting an idea as to what kind of economic drag they are; the money ran out, and their neighborhoods are rapidly deteriorating. Nobody hires them (there are so many other more-qualified, more-motivated candidates available, including many trafficked thousands of miles to get here), and they know their freebies money is buying less than it used to. They’ve forfeited police protection and any real public education, and the well is dry in terms of the usual funds to “fix” these problems.
Thanks. Yes, it appears both parties see importing foreigners while reducing the black birthrate as the solution (the “final solution”, you might say). The absolute apathy of productive people towards the mayhem and murder in the ‘hoods of unproductive people is very telling; nobody cares that they murder each other en masse as long as we don’t have to see it or be held up in traffic because of it...
BTW, riots like Ferguson are a means for black America to try to force white America to deal with them (on the blacks’ terms, of course); it is an unsuccessful tactic, that will just push many across the aisle into supporting taxpayer-funded abortions for blacks.
So if the blacks boycott black Friday we will have a better shot.....am I missing anything here!!!
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