Posted on 11/27/2014 10:33:20 PM PST by RightGeek
A social media campaign calling for a boycott on spending this Black Friday has caught the attention of celebrities.
In an effort to protest the Missouri grand jury’s decision on Monday not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in August, US celebrities have taken to social media to use the hashtags #NotOneDime, #BlackoutFriday and #BlackoutBlackFriday to advocate for a retail boycott. They include actors Michael B. Jordan and Jesse Williams, Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler, actress Kat Graham, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and journalist Soledad O’Brien . The hashtags are meant to encourage people to stop shopping on the biggest retail day of the year as a protest against police brutality.
The campaign was started by a grassroots group called Blackout for Human Rights, which aims to “to raise awareness that builds and maintains pressure on the instruments of power until we are satisfied that the current threat has passed.” The group has hopes to “make Black Friday (November 28, 2014) a nationwide day of action and retail boycott.”
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I am all for Human Rights starting with the presumption of innocence, right to due process, and the right to avoid all products and stuff related to idiots like this.
I have avoided everything related to Alec Baldwin since his rant against Henry Hyde during Toon’s Impeachment on one of the late shows, just as an example.
I am not for stealing, jaywalking, and punching LEOs in the face when they ask you to get out of the street or any of the other things Brown did. Just think - if Brown had just followed simple instructions, he’d still be alive, Wilson would still be serving the community, and all those business owners and their employees would still be working.
Talk about injustice, just because Brown wouldn’t do a simple little thing, all these other people have suffered. Why don’t they object to robbers, looters and arsonists?
“Why don’t they object to robbers, looters and arsonists?”
Because they’re a major component of the core of the Democratic Party! /s;)
Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays. /s
Cool - now I have an excuse to buy that keyboard I’ve been thinking about getting.
I went to Office max this evening to look around.
They were not boycotting.
The WalMart in the same strip mall was SO full, the cars were parked clear down to Home Depot, several hundred yards away.
I don’t think the blackout will work.
At all.
FWIW, you could not pay me enough to be at WalMart for today’s psycho circus.
Does this include a boycott on robbing people in Mall/Walmart parking lots on Black Friday??
Happened to a black friend last year, on black Friday, held up by two AA’s with guns.
“FWIW, you could not pay me enough to be at WalMart for today’s psycho circus.” I leaned several years ago to NEVER go near a city Walmart on “Black Friday” (now Thursday).
Beyond the usual inner-city type crowd inside, you have to run the gauntlet of robbers and hoodlums outside.
We go to the small town about 30 miles away, if we go, now. Completely different experience!
Just call’em ‘Pokis’ as in ‘Pokemon’. They function the same way. Disposable cannon fodder for someone else’s quest for power..
Here are the gun laws I found for MO for whatever that means or can help. http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-laws/missouri.aspx
before long, Black Friday will need to be renamed because its racist
> Just call’em ‘Pokis’ as in ‘Pokemon’. They function the same way. Disposable cannon fodder for someone else’s quest for powe
Sounds a bit like cockfighting. ;^)
If you didn’t hear about it: http://fusion.net/story/29330/across-the-tracks-from-ferguson-clayton-enlists-private-army-to-brace-for-trouble/
Across the tracks from Ferguson...
And do not mean that they demand anything but protection from the mobs.
I live in the sticks and the “big town” not very far away where Walmart is, is still pretty small.
Here, they generally just rob stores and shoot each other.
However, I have no desire to push my luck.
I’m not very big and would be easily trampled.
I went to one Best Buy black Friday.
It was -very- cold and I don’t think I even bought anything.
And then there’s the drivers.
Two drivers nearly hit us, I suppose in the name of getting one car length closer to *whatever*.
Pitiful.
OTOH, my male Dobe is allowed to go in stores with me, even though I’ve never taken advantage of that, save pet stores where he can already go, anyway.
I *could* finally make use of him, tomorrow, if I wanted to.
:)
see post 33
the private jet pilots should boycott piloting these s#itheads
I love one-percenters when they turn all moralistic. They’re free to boycott anyone they want, but inasmuch as they’re blaming me for the injustices and inequities of society, they better not hope for my help. They are, after all, people with lavish lifestyles who point their fingers at me as “privileged”. I should be so oppressed as they are.
Been there, done that. Boy do I have some stories! I flew many a politician during the 1996 races. Dole used AFLAC's Jet and crew. One time I picked up a bunch of politicians on short notice. Jesse Helms, Henry Kissinger, and Elizabeth Dole. They were very good friends. The trip was very personal involving the private life of one of them. The other two were there for support.
I flew Mother Theresa during her visit. She never said much.
Now TV preachers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh boy! What nasty foul sociopaths that bunch is!
Wow. They can’t even boycott correctly.
"FWIW, you could not pay me enough to be at WalMart for today’s psycho circus."
Well, if you're not going, can I use your ticket?
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