Yes!! PLEASE, all of you, STAY AWAY from Florida!! Boycott the HELL out of us!!! We're beggin' you!!!
Posted on 07/20/2013 11:05:49 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
A number of House Democrats are lining up behind the Rev. Jesse Jackson's threat for an economic boycott of Florida following the not-guilty verdict in the death of Trayvon Martin.
The lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, are fierce critics of the process that led to George Zimmerman's acquittal in the fatal shooting last year of the Florida teenager. Exerting pressure on Florida's economy as Jackson is suggesting, they said, could help overturn the state's controversial stand-your-ground laws that many contend contributed to the tragedy.
"That's probably the best strategy, because people understand dollars and cents," Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) said Friday. "And they understand, if there's a significant drop-off in revenues – at conventions, at Disney World and Universal Studios – that that will get the attention of the powerful."
Clay said he'd like to see "a multi-pronged strategy" that includes legislation, "getting laws overturned by courts, as well as an economic boycott."
Rep. Bennie Thompson echoed that message. The Mississippi Democrat called the verdict "a travesty" that "does not speak well for this country," and said he would "absolutely" support an economic boycott of the state.
"[It] could have significant economic significance if properly organized," Thompson said Friday. "What I gather from a lot of people who have feelings about it, he [Jackson] would get … support."
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said she's also on board.
"I would support whatever it takes to get these stand-your-ground laws off the books," she said.
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The odds of my visiting Florida this year just increased.
So they are going to leave Florida?
Wonder if we could get them to boycott Indiana too. And Michigan and Illinois
Talk about sore losers! ...
And when business drops the first place cuts are meade is in the lower ranks of the employees.
That would be people like janitors, chambermaids, cooks and bottle washers, fast food servers, delivery drivers, landscapers, warehouse help, etc. Just the kinds of jobs held by many blacks.
The black sellouts in the Democratic Party are trying again to make white America the bogeyman with a hood. Talk about total myopia. The CBC doesn’t have the guts to admit that so much of black America’s problems are self-inflicted. Instead, the race card is thrown out again. This weekend in Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, DC, and NYC scores of blacks will be killed and injured by their own kind and yet the CBC wants to look the other way and blame the white man again and again.
There are 3 members of the CBC who represent districts in Florida. Hmmmm?
The NAAAA (that’s National Organization for the Advancement of African Americans - more P.C., right?) threatened a boycott over the Confederate flag over the S.C. State House dome (underneath the national colors & the state flag).
In 2000 the flag was removed from the dome and re-erected next to the Confederate soldier monument on the State House grounds. Not good enough, the NAAAA said, and the boycott goes on to this day.
Its only noticeable effect was the Obama campaign in 2008 & 2012 quartering its staff in private homes rather than hotels when passing through the Palmetto State.
The joke is that South Carolina’s beaches are the whitest on the East Coast. Except during Black Biker weekend in Myrtle Beach.
“The twelve percent versus the eight-seven percent”. Yeah, that’ll go over big. And Stand Your Ground doesn’t stand a chance now that Eric Holder & Nanny Bloomberg oppose it.
;^)
In other news, crime drops.
The lynch party was left holding an empty rope, and the instigators are mad. They want to enrage the savages and get revenge.
Does this mean fewer blacks in FLA? If so, I support this.
“...they’ll all have to move to Canada...”
Here’s $1 for gas to get them all started.
Oh, no. I mean, just look what they did to Chick-Fil-A!
Lucky Florida. With the blacks would boycott Ohio.
"I would support whatever it takes to get these stand-your-ground laws off the books," she said.
Another commie 'RAT moron with a negative I.Q. What do these "stand your ground" laws have to do with Zimmerman defending himself? It sounds to me like Lee is only worried about her felonious constituents getting their @$$es shot while committing their crimes.
They can always change their vacation plans from sunny Florida
to sunny Detroit.
There’s no point to boycotting Florida. George Zimmerman is innocent. Punish a State because you don’t like the outcome of a trial? Are we still a government of laws? Mob rule makes us all less safe.
Ironic that Trayvon was beating up someone he thought was a homosexual trying to rape him.
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