Black People : Can we BOYCOTT by buying Black?

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mazimtaim said:
We would could effectively end most of the problems we are currently suffering from within a decade or so.

Maybe less.

The only significant obstacle would still be the justice system. But we could fund our own education system. You know, like Jewish folk.
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Now we are talking Black power for real, this can be a solution and i hope more folks give some input
 
This has been on my mind...

mazimtaim said:
We would could effectively end most of the problems we are currently suffering from within a decade or so.

Maybe less.

The only significant obstacle would still be the justice system. But we could fund our own education system. You know, like Jewish folk.


In the 80s protest of apartheid South Africa student activists organized a cultural boycott.

In fact at Cals State Northridge we organized a boycott of the University foundation in 1976 after the Soweto Uprising. Instead of buying our textbooks from the student store we purchased what we could from independent Black bookstores. This boycott was assisted by the Pan African Studies department.

At UCLA this was a more difficult task but there were some African Studies and Black studies professors who also assisted us by ordering their texts through independent black bookstores. The students boycotted the ASUCLA foundation and organized students to boycott ASUCLA because of not only tis investment in corporations doing business in south africa, but also direct investment in the state of Israel. The result. Divestment of $51 million dollars in 1980 or 81 [dont remember the exact year].

The students also shut down a Board of Control meeting [the organization which allocated funding for all student government councils and programs] and from that point we organized a "Third World Coalition" which removed the zionist-funded organizations and took over student government. From that point we then started taking over student relations offices, community programming and events planning councils that were run by the university outside of student government. From that point we initiated a takeover of certain academic departments such as various laww schoola nd urban planning programs. This led to takeover of Murphy Hall [administration building] resulting in changes in the vice chancellor's office and various programs affecting affirmative action and graduate programs, which resulted in establishment of the GAO office, Gap Program, which resulted in the university developing graduate fellowship programs for minority graduate students....

Get the picture.

From there, the community programs we instituted created community service programs, and I initiated one kniown as the African Education Project, in 1981, which now conducts a Saturday School in the Wilmington Arms Project in Compton. The CPO is now part of the university structure, run by students, funded by students, all in spite of the elimination of various affirmative action programs.

So, there is nothing impossible of the idea of a cultural boycott of say, white banks, as we did 30 years ago. Take your money out of BOA, Chase, etc and bank with black owned banks such as Broadway Federal.

Change your internet service providers and find black owned companies that service your area. If you gotta go to starbucks or 7-Eleven only shop at black-owned franchises.

If that $800 tax rebate comes in the mail BUY Black. Or try to save that money and invest in a black owned corporation. Go to a black owned bank and start an IRA account.....

and on and on...
 
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omowalejabali said:
In the 80s protest of apartheid South Africa student activists organized a cultural boycott.

In fact at Cals State Northridge we organized a boycott of the University foundation in 1976 after the Soweto Uprising. Instead of buying our textbooks from the student store we purchased what we could from independent Black bookstores. This boycott was assisted by the Pan African Studies department.

At UCLA this was a more difficult task but there were some African Studies and Black studies professors who also assisted us by ordering their texts through independent black bookstores. The students boycotted the ASUCLA foundation and organized students to boycott ASUCLA because of not only tis investment in corporations doing business in south africa, but also direct investment in the state of Israel. The result. Divestment of $51 million dollars in 1980 or 81 [dont remember the exact year].

The students also shut down a Board of Control meeting [the organization which allocated funding for all student government councils and programs] and from that point we organized a "Third World Coalition" which removed the zionist-funded organizations and took over student government. From that point we then started taking over student relations offices, community programming and events planning councils that were run by the university outside of student government. From that point we initiated a takeover of certain academic departments such as various laww schoola nd urban planning programs. This led to takeover of Murphy Hall [administration building] resulting in changes in the vice chancellor's office and various programs affecting affirmative action and graduate programs, which resulted in establishment of the GAO office, Gap Program, which resulted in the university developing graduate fellowship programs for minority graduate students....

Get the picture.

From there, the community programs we instituted created community service programs, and I initiated one kniown as the African Education Project, in 1981, which now conducts a Saturday School in the Wilmington Arms Project in Compton. The CPO is now part of the university structure, run by students, funded by students, all in spite of the elimination of various affirmative action programs.

So, there is nothing impossible of the idea of a cultural boycott of say, white banks, as we did 30 years ago. Take your money out of BOA, Chase, etc and bank with black owned banks such as Broadway Federal.

Change your internet service providers and find black owned companies that service your area. If you gotta go to starbucks or 7-Eleven only shop at black-owned franchises.

If that $800 tax rebate comes in the mail BUY Black. Or try to save that money and invest in a black owned corporation. Go to a black owned bank and start an IRA account.....

and on and on...
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Your past experience, and wisdom is of infinite value to all Black folks on this planet.
Let us see how we can get this out to a
broader audience, and also get some input from some of the sisters.
 

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