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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Tell me again why we are supposed care about what a bunch of dingbat celebrities with not a brain between them think?
Guess it will be safer for all civil citizens to go out and about now. We should encourage more of these kind of boycotts.
It’s a stretch to call any of these people “celebrities.” I’ve never heard of any of these people except Soledad O’Brien and I highly doubt that anyone is celebrating her. The only outcome of this “protest” is that there might be a few less people trampling their neighbors on the way to the TV dept during the blue light special, so it’s a win.
Yup, and the convoluted pretzel the writers are creating to make Johnny Storm black while keeping Susan white is, if the leaks are true, impressive.
The fact that Johnny is going to be black but Susan white (can’t have a black female lead/love interest for Reed Richards, right?) speaks volumes about the writers/directors/producers own racism.
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