I am starting to receive messages regarding boycotting a business for X amount of days. That is great but the international companies will recovery. Many of the racists or people who, for some reason, are completely against the BLM movement will give the boycotted business all the business they need.
If we boycott a retailer, one that some of us actually work for, those employees will still get up and go to work and help that retailer make money for the day. The bus boycott worked because it had an effect on local economy(ies). Those white employees had to get paid and we know that when things become a white issue it is then considered an American issue (like drug addiction). Blacks still got to their jobs by walking. What’s is the difference now? There are more Blacks in the corporate workforce, more in federal, state, and local govt jobs, more in retail et al.
We don’t need X amount of days… We need 24 hrs. There are over 30 million African-Americans in the USA. How many of us spend at least 5 bucks a day? How many of us get up and go to a job where we help a non-black person make money?
So, my suggestion is still the same. From midnight to midnight, in every US time zone, on the same day, Don’t do anything; don’t go to work (unless it’s your business or black owned) (make sure to follow proper protocol for calling out sick, or using a personal day with your employer), don’t spend unless it is absolutely necessary (spend in local communities; no big chains), don’t ride their buses, don’t ride their trains, don’t buy gas, don’t drive their buses or trains for them, don’t take a flight, don’t buy the ticket.
Yeah, how do we get all of us to do this? They taught us to doubt our abilities…it’s time to show them what Black Power means.
Boycotts and Walkouts work… Needs to be well organized… Needs to happen from Maine to Hawaii… All together…all at once… Stop spending
My original post was in July…in response to the senseless killing of black persons by law enforcement. We may be entering police state where more than just black and brown folks are in danger… Hit back… In their wallets…
My perception of you, him, her, it, them, that, or those does not always comport with reality or the facts.
Everyday I have to tell myself that I everything will be OK if I continue to take the next right action. My default in the morning used to be; The world sucks, you hate me, God is against me; every white person is scared of my being in the elevator with me; you all believe that I am stupid.
How grandiose is all that?
As if every white person had the time to be afraid of me. I’m sure God has better things to do than use my life in some celestial game of marbles and I’m the big that is so easily struck. How can anyone even have an opinion on my intelliigence if I am stuck in my room shooting up. That’s stupid, yes. Drugs messed with my brain to the point where I had a day or two where I could not stop rhyming my words with persons words I was speaking with. Later on, I could hardly for a sentence without losing my train of thought. Drugs kept me stuck on stupid.
In recovery, I still catch myself in my own head creating wild stories about what I think is happening around. It’s good that I can stop myself or I can bounce my thoughts off of someone else and remain open to their insight.
Me in my own head is a dangerous place.
Staying clean, I get a chance to figure out what is real and go from there - one day at a time.
Taken with Instagram at China Sun
“Slaps-in-the-face may be experienced as Spiritual Awakenings.”
— Christian Aviance
Especially when I was getting high!
“Truth is my connection to reality. Today, I will take time to ask myself, ‘Am I telling the truth?’”
