Posted on 07/08/2020 7:44:17 AM PDT by bgill
"I think 'Blackout Tuesday' is great," Smokey John's Co-owner Juan Reaves said. "This is our opportunity to put our best foot forward to people that may not be familiar with us, Black or White."
'National Blackout Day' is meant to highlight Black-owned businesses, and get people to send a message of support by spending their money to support Black business owners...
Our news partners at the Dallas Morning News compiled a list of some Black-owned businesses in North Texas. You can find it here.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcdfw.com ...
Hey - I have a new shopping day - Thanks BLM !!!
Wait - I just read a similar story, it said Blacks WERE NOT going to shop on Tuesdays ... which is it ???
Let me guess, they happen to be black.
I patronize a business based on the quality of service and the value of what I am paying for. I have never cared what color the owner was.
When is White-Out Day?
When is Yellow-Out Day?
When is Red-Out Day?
When is Rainbow-Out Day?
When is Green-Out Day?................
I smell Racism.
So would it be racist if people chose not to frequent the black owned business listed?.
There seems to be an undercurrent of too hell with whitey go around, maybe turn about is fair play.
Institutionalize pick pockets?
Taking the subway in Boston, there was an in-car ad for “The Black Pages”, a directory of black-owned businesses.
About the only people that would benefit from such a directory are the people selling ads to black business owners.
Reminds me of a black guy that finally got his first novel published. He raced to the local B&N only to find his book in the “Black Authors” section, not in the general category of crime, romance, or whatever it was.
He had a successful chat with the manager to display it along with the rest of the genre. Probably the publishing house too.
(Book stores used to do it with other stuff too. Heard an author on Art Bell, and her book on the UTenn “body farm” was in the sociology section.)
IIRC there is a section of downtown Detroit limited to black owned businesses only. Nothing discriminatory about that, of course.
Balck Out is the new White Safe.
Maybe not at "white" businesses, or "acting white" ones?
This is how I shop too.
Yeah. Shop on Tuesdays if you don’t want to deal with blacks.
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