Black Out?

November 2, 2007 | Filed Under Moment of Truth 

In light of reading about National Blackout day today, I have just one overall response: Why is that Black people always want to boycott something?  No one need be offended by the statement because it’s true.  And annoying.  Not purchasing goods for one day, temporarily witholding those monies, will not create equality or justice.  It just won’t.  And all businesses know this so they don’t even flinch at the idea.  The Montgomery bus boycott lasted over a year.  It created an impact, something that a one-day boycott will never do. 

If we really wanted to flex our economic power, we’d just get our own.  You don’t see Chinese people boycotting American businesses…they just shop at their businesses in their neighborhoods there to serve THEM.  They don’t have to boycott; they choose to spend their money with their own. 

If Black people collectively spend $2 billion a day, seems to me like that’s enough to start some kind of industry.  But most Blacks with substantial individual economic power are coons so what can you expect?

  • Share/Bookmark

Comments

2 Responses to “Black Out?”

  1. jawai on November 2nd, 2007 10:44 am

    We blacks are now so rich and influential that we can boycott America to show that we are poor and oppressed.

  2. admin on November 2nd, 2007 12:14 pm

    But does “America” care? And if it/they did, wouldn’t fewer of us be poor, oppressed, and fed directly into the industrial complexes they design for us to fill-military and prison? We don’t even treat each other the way we want “America” to treat us, which is why the request can and will continue to be ignored.

    Those that participate in the blackout might not buy today, but they will tomorrow and every other day. They’re still going to buy hefty loads of goods for Christmas. They themselves are making a mockery out of their own cause.

    It’s an extremely passive and ineffective way to bring about change, at least as it’s being implemented right now.

Leave a Reply