Boycott is just a buzz word for e-militants. It's propped up as a pancea, but in reality it's so poorly planned and explained, that it has no chance of ever working. And this outcome is fine with the e militant; it's expected to fail, because it then gives them the opportunity to go on their "nikkas ain't shyt, and ain't never gonna be shyt cuz they couldn't even give up shopping on one day" when in reality no one got behind your movement because it was bullshyt
1.) Your one day boycott ain't gonna do shyt, especially when it's followed by folks getting their shopping done afterwards. The most famous and probably effective boycott in this country's history (the Montgomery Bus Boycott) affected a single entity and that little entity held on for over a year before giving in and you think this one day boycott is gonna do shyt?
2.) As someone pointed out in here, boycotts don't work without substitution. The Montgomery Bus Boycott does not work without the organized carpools to allow folks to still get to their jobs and feed their families.
3.) There's no clear ask here. The Montgomery boycott was indefinite, and the CaCs knew that they could avoid the boycott if they integrated the busses. They knew this before the boycotts began, they knew it 1 week, 1 month, 1 year into the boycotts. What's the head of Macy's suppoosed to do to try to avoid his store seeing the sales dip? What would have to happen in order to avoid this boycott? What would have to happen in order to conclude this boycott.
4.) Trickle-down boycotts are not effective at all. Like I said, the Bus Boycotts hit the pockets of a specific entity and it still held on for over a year. Y'all think seeing a few retailers flounder (whilst others within the country prosper) is really gonna cause them to blow through every law on the books, the constitution, state vs federal rights and just indict a man that jurisdiction doesn't want to indict? Y'all sound as delusional as Reagan with his trickle down economics.
It's clear to everybody that this proposal was something y'all just pulled out of your ass. "Black Friday is coming up, let's boycott that, that'll show em!"
If this happened in May, y'all would be calling for us to avoid travelling Memorial Day weekend and shyt. How much time has passed since Trayvon? Hell, if y'all were truly taking this serious you could've devised a real action in plan in the 3 months since Brown was murdered. Instead y'all expect people to follow something y'all made up last night.
"Bu...bu...bu..it's a start" Every step is a start to somewhere, but no one wants to follow a leader who is clearly just making it up as they go along.
Good luck with that one man revolution.
