Comments on: Be Anti-Racist with Your Purchasing Power http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2007/01/23/be-anti-racist-with-your-purchasing-power/ Thoughts on the Journey Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:23:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ariah http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2007/01/23/be-anti-racist-with-your-purchasing-power/#comment-8804 Ariah Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:34:16 +0000 http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2007/01/23/be-anti-racist-with-your-purchasing-power/#comment-8804 Great thought. Boycotts are a strange bird. I definitly see the point of NAACP's efforts, but your right in the way that it effects the system. What alternatives do you think you could offer the NAACP or others who are considering boycotts based on some injustice or wrong? Great thought. Boycotts are a strange bird. I definitly see the point of NAACP’s efforts, but your right in the way that it effects the system.

What alternatives do you think you could offer the NAACP or others who are considering boycotts based on some injustice or wrong?

]]> By: Milehimama http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2007/01/23/be-anti-racist-with-your-purchasing-power/#comment-8773 Milehimama Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:58:15 +0000 http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2007/01/23/be-anti-racist-with-your-purchasing-power/#comment-8773 Here's the problem I have with the NAACP boycotts: I am new to South Carolina. Apparently, they fly the Confederate flag - they also celebrate Confederate Memorial Day as well as the regular Memorial Day. So, by state law, the confederate flag flies at stadiums (college football games). The NAACP has called for a boycott of the games. Who's hurt? The players, many of whom are on scholarships through the football players. The small businesses who supply merchandise and food. The little guy who sells parking slots. These guys can't do anything to change the flag law. The colleges don't have any control about what flag flies when. Only an act of congress (State congress) can change this. Does encouraging boycotts of Clemson University change anything? No. Here’s the problem I have with the NAACP boycotts: I am new to South Carolina. Apparently, they fly the Confederate flag - they also celebrate Confederate Memorial Day as well as the regular Memorial Day. So, by state law, the confederate flag flies at stadiums (college football games). The NAACP has called for a boycott of the games. Who’s hurt? The players, many of whom are on scholarships through the football players. The small businesses who supply merchandise and food. The little guy who sells parking slots. These guys can’t do anything to change the flag law. The colleges don’t have any control about what flag flies when. Only an act of congress (State congress) can change this. Does encouraging boycotts of Clemson University change anything? No.

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