Monday, August 05, 2013
More Wisdom
http://racismws.com/2013/08/01/boycott-the-entire-state-of-florida/
Lumumba Afrika says:
Yes! Here it is:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/knowtheledgeradio/2013/07/31/ktl-radio-presents-dick-gregory-factsonly
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TrojanPam says:
@ Kushite
I agree, let’s talk LESS AND spend LESS and look for black businesses that sell what we need
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Kushite Prince says:
Let’s ALL do our part! We have to be dedicated and stay motivated for this to work. We MUST speak with our pocketbooks! Come on black folks! let’s get it together!!
http://kushiteprince.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/boycott-florida-day-august-12013-and-beyond/
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honeytreebee says:
Pam the boycott is for us. We will save our money, we will not be giving our money, time, and attention to those that would do us harm. We give ourselves time to focus on us. By having a boycott it lets us take invatory of where we are and what we have collectively. We should be looking at all of the gaps we have because we all know or should know by now that segragation is coming back. Look at the voting rights act and the stop and frisk ordeal. How is this not ala jim crow? We should be looking to build our own network even if it is just a few of us. When they et stupid in a big way and they always do the rest of us will follow as they will have few if, any other options. If, we were to set up now we need never work for others again. When you are not a begger and you have options you have power to refuse. The goal is for each of us to become self sufficent and in return gain the power of long tern refusal of all of their services. This will ht them hard in their pocket books, rattle their minds that we don’t need them and don’t want them.
I also loved your idea of not calling it a boycott and instead saying that you don’t feel comfortable because you and yours don’t feel safe because of the laws and what happened to Trayvon. I thnk this heeps everyone focused on the why. They need to hear it over and over again and we need to never let them forget it. I will never let them foreget it and when I see something that I don’t like or feel is degrading I let them know and say I don’t feel safe cause you know it’s behavior or thinking like this that allows or condones things like the death of young black people like trayvon Matin, Oscar Grant and so on. They’ll get wrankled, but until all of mine are free, healed, healthy, happy and justice has been served I don’t give a flying fig.
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TrojanPam says:
@ honeytreebee
love your enthusiasm! I agree that we need to take inventory of where we are and were we need to be
however, I think we should begin with increasing our understanding white supremacy AND reducing our anti-blackness and start slowly, eliminating things that we can do without, a few things, places and people at a time.
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honeytreebee says:
Yes I agree we should learn all we can and see how it is interwoven in our lives and work to root it out and replace it lwith ove acceptance and understanding of self. We need to study our past mistakes and the consequences of our collective actions like what we gave up with intergration that was really assimilation.
Our businesses and culture is attacked more than any other group which makes it hard for us to flourish. That being said I think one of our biggest internal problems is our anti- blackness because even if, white people were to disappear in the next minute unfortunately they would leave behind all of their damage, disease, and mess for us to clean up.
I think once we remember collectively who we are and what we are and once again must be all of this will start to fall into place. I think the lies will fall away and we will be able to come together. It can and will happen I jus wish it didn’t have to happen so painfully for us as we have already been through so much.
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TrojanPam says:
@ honeytreebee
Even the idea of blacks buying from other blacks is seen as a threat by non-whites (who are not black) and by whites
which makes all the sense in the world.
Why would the merchants and businesses that rely upon our spending want to see their CASH COWS (black consumers) come to our senses and spend our dollars with each other???
If we stopped buying junk and fried foods, fried fish, “chinese” food, fake nails, weaves, mowed our own lawns, washed instead of dry cleaned, etc, we would send ECONOMIC SHOCK WAVES through hundreds of immigrant communities.
I don’t wish them harm, I’m simply commenting on the HUGE number of immigrants who would be OUT OF BUSINESS and OUT OF LUCK if black people did not shop with them
and the HUGE NUMBER of white businesses that take our dollars AND refuse to spend a dime with us, refuse to advertise in black publications, refuse to use black models, etc — that sell us a TON OF JUNK WE DON’T NEED — would also take a HUGE HIT.
I’m not talking about doing without basic necessities, I’m talking about eating in restaurants that DON’T hire blacks, and “designer clothing” by white designers who DON’T hire black models, and overpriced sneakers (who the heck needs a pair of $400 sneakers??), and a bunch of JUNK we don’t need.
I still believe that UNTIL we address the ANTI-BLACKNESS within ourselves and each other (which would ELIMINATE the desire for weaves – since our NATURAL HAIR would be more preferable), for “designer” clothing — because we wouldn’t need a white person’s name or logo on our black behinds) we won’t be able to build much of ANYTHING black and progressive on a large scale.
As I have stated over and over in all of my books:
We cannot have a STRONG BLACK BUSINESS BASE without STRONG BLACK COMMUNITIES
we cannot have STRONG BLACK COMMUNITIES without STRONG BLACK FAMILIES
we cannot have STRONG BLACK FAMILIES without strong-minded, self-respecting and self-loving black males AND females UNIFYING for our mutual survival AND the survival of our children
And, lastly, we cannot have BLACK UNITY until we REDUCE OUR COLLECTIVE ANTI-BLACKNESS
because what will happen (and I’ve experienced this personally) is when some black businesses DO become successful, that ANTI-BLACKNESS will be off the chain, the “haters” will come out of the closet and we will start to SABOTAGE each other
This is NOT an exaggeration. We say things that are meant to encourage and support other black people that we DO NOT MEAN, and that old “anti-black” programming will start to kick in and things go down hill from there. I’ve known black merchants who have talked about how other black people seem to want to wreck their businesses OR do NOT want to see them prosper.
all of this is ANTI-BLACKNESS.
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