{"id":1075235,"date":"2021-12-02T03:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1075235"},"modified":"2021-12-02T03:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:29:01","slug":"black-lives-matter-demands-holiday-boycott-of-white-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-demands-holiday-boycott-of-white-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Demands Holiday Boycott of &#039;White Companies&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-lives-matter-demands-holiday-boycott-of-white-companies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1075235&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1232317880-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Black Lives Matter movement is urging supporters to wage a month-long boycott of what the far-left organization describes as \u201cwhite companies\u201d as the holiday season approaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life,\u201d the Black Lives Matter&nbsp;Global Network Foundation posted to Instagram. \u201cSkip the Black Friday sales and buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CWvguDCp9Nu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.25925925925926\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To support its cause, the Black Lives Matter group called on supporters to visit&nbsp;BlackXmas.org, where it can learn how to \u201cmove your money out of white-corporate banks that finance our oppression and open accounts with&nbsp;Black-owned banks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs BLMLA organizer, Jan Williams, reminds us, \u2018Capitalism doesn\u2019t love Black people,\u2019\u201d the group <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/black-xmas\/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=5KExx4HyA0.FTBRuAB1Q29gSc822ECBtuPhZrdaXVgo-1638227203-0-gaNycGzNCWU\">said<\/a> in a statement last week announcing the boycott.&nbsp;\u201cIn fact, white-supremacist-capitalism invented policing, initially as chattel-slavery-era \u2018paddy rollers,\u2019 in order to protect its interests and put targets on the backs of Black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, this claim is revisionist history. While slave patrols did exist in the south, many of the earliest police forces had nothing to do with slavery. The very first constable present in colonial records was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histarch.illinois.edu\/plymouth\/BARNES2.htm\">Joshua Pratt<\/a>, who served in the 1630s in Plymouth Colony. Per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4779112\/police-history-origins\/\">TIME Magazine<\/a><\/em>: \u201cThe first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c#BlackXmas challenges us to shake off the chains of consumerism and step fully into our own collective power, to build new traditions, and run an offense as well as a defense,\u201d the statement added. \u201cLet\u2019s harness our economic power to disrupt white-supremacist-capitalism and build Black community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The boycott comes after&nbsp;Black Lives Matter criticized the celebration of Thanksgiving, calling America \u201cstolen land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land,\u201d the organization&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blklivesmatter\/status\/1463982548707524613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in a social media post, which included the following graphic:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.7218543046358\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Ob1RgBkvp\">pic.twitter.com\/1Ob1RgBkvp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blklivesmatter\/status\/1463982548707524613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cColonization never ended, it just became normalized,\u201d the graphic read.<\/p>\n<p>Some Twitter users blasted the anti-Thanksgiving post, seemingly alluding to&nbsp;BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/27\/black-lives-matter-ripped-thanksgiving-you-are-stolen-land-post\/\">reportedly<\/a> building a wall around her $1.4 million house after resigning from the group amid criticism of her lavish lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cThen give up your houses card money jobs and everything else you own because that\u2019s all on stolen land too,\u201d one user&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevin_david91\/status\/1464053206745423876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cEvery square inch of land occupied on this planet was stolen\/conquered. You\u2019re normalizing generational victimization and it\u2019s gross,\u201d another user&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thump202002\/status\/1464054769253859328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">replied<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Lives Matter movement is urging supporters to wage a month-long boycott of what the far-left organization describes as \u201cwhite companies\u201d as the holiday season approaches. \u201cWhite-supremacist-capitalism uses policing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}