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Black Lives Matter Calls For a ‘BlackXmas’ to Protest ‘White Capitalism’ and Trump
MRC TV ^ | November 30, 2017 | Ashley Rae Goldenberg

Posted on 12/01/2017 10:11:05 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter is calling for people to resist “white capitalism” and President Trump by only buying from black businesses during the holiday season.

On Sunday, the allegedly official Black Lives Matter-LA Twitter account posted that they are “dreaming of a #BlackXmas” that involves people withholding their “dollars from White capitalism” and, instead, spending that money in the black community:

We’re dreaming of a #BlackXmas...where folks withhold dollars from White capitalism and use resources to #BuildBlackCommunity. Instead of spending, DONATE to a Black organization as a holiday gift for your loved ones or #BuyBlack. Go to https://t.co/klHABpJaeu for more. — #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) November 26, 2017

The website for the movement calls for people to “#DIVEST from White corporations” and “#INVEST in Black community.”

According to the BlackXmas website, by choosing to #BUYBLACK, Black Lives Matter supporters are helping stop Trump and “the like.” The site claims, “Donald Trump embodies White capitalism.  If you are anti-Trump, you should hold back your resources from him and the like.”

Two Black Lives Matter supporters and California State University, Los Angeles professors discussed their support for the movement.

Newsweek reports pan-African studies professor Melina Abdullah connected “white capitalism” to the alleged systematic killing of black people by police.

“We say ‘white capitalism’ because it’s important that we understand that the economic system and the racial structures are connected,” Abdullah said. “We have to not only disrupt the systems of policing that literally kill our people, but we have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings.”

Fellow pan-African studies professor Anthony Ratcliff said, “Black Lives Matter and other organizations build a strong critique and understanding of racism and white supremacy and sexism and homophobia, transphobia, but we have to have as much hatred or vitriol against capitalism.”

“Until we start to see capitalism [is] just as nefarious as white supremacy, we will always be struggling,” he added.

In 2015, a “Black Xmas” protest led to airports in Minneapolis and San Francisco being blockaded by activists in order to fight against police brutality.

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KEYWORDS: again; blacklivesmatter; blacks; boycott; businesses; segregation; trump; whites
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They want one half of the pie for themselves only and prioritized access to the other half of the pie.


61 posted on 12/01/2017 1:23:55 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Stormdog

The urban approach to shopping doesn’t require spending money.


62 posted on 12/01/2017 1:26:41 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

You most obviously are blind to who ‘They Are “ Do try to keep up


63 posted on 12/01/2017 1:30:52 PM PST by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I honestly would rather be with theses people:

Than these people:


64 posted on 12/01/2017 1:31:41 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: jmaroneps37

Kwaanza was invented by a convicted felon.


65 posted on 12/01/2017 1:34:44 PM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Califreak

And celebrated by convicted felons.


66 posted on 12/01/2017 1:35:45 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas.
67 posted on 12/01/2017 1:38:27 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: American in Israel

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KEwgVK5QO2A

12 Days of Christmas-Ghetto Style


68 posted on 12/01/2017 1:40:09 PM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I agree. Blacks should do their Christmas shop-lifting at black-owned businesses only.

69 posted on 12/01/2017 1:46:03 PM PST by Kenton
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To: Kenton

Was that pic taken in Nairobi,Johannesburg, or Lagos ???????????

(I can dream,can’t I?}


70 posted on 12/01/2017 1:52:24 PM PST by Mears
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If they want to patronize the arts and crafts and wares of members of their own communities, I see no harm. I think people everywhere should support their own communities. So White People should try to shop at White-Owned small businesses to support them and withdraw from Walmart consumerism. Jeez, they could just leave all the threats and murder out of it. Do brown people MAKE anything?


71 posted on 12/01/2017 1:56:42 PM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Forty years ago they were wishing each other a “Black Christmas”.


72 posted on 12/01/2017 1:56:48 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: jmaroneps37
They couldn’t even get Kwanzaa off the ground last year.

True. The only people 'celebrating' Kwanzaa are white elementray school teachers anyhow. BUT this new 'black Christmas' thing gives them an out... maybe they can finally replace Kwanzza with something sillier...

73 posted on 12/01/2017 2:25:43 PM PST by GOPJ (Are the women NOT complaining the ones who 'put out' and moved up the ladder?)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

You are absolutely right on that.

I was just pointing (as others have done) that everything we use every day was researched, invented, developed, and manufactured mostly by white people as were all the raw materials and machine tools.


74 posted on 12/01/2017 3:52:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m gonna hurl.


75 posted on 12/02/2017 5:51:52 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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