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...formalized boycott," Kelly said."It's more like here's what happened, and I urgeyou not to go to a place where such treatment isreceived. I feel like [a boycott] could befeasible. There have been a lot of responses tothe e-mail...
...bare, we see both evil and ineptitude. For all its terror, the Sovereignty Commission often seemed like a band of Klanstone Kops. Investigators were flummoxed by the race of a baby with a light complexion and dark, curly hair. They railed hilariously at "beatniks" and "Castroites" and sought to boycott sponsors of integrationist entertainers such as Lena Horne and Marlon Brando...
Seven years after the Brown school- desegregation decision, six years after the Montgomery bus boycott, the Congress of Racial Equality had dispatched a few buses loaded with Freedom Riders--young Negro civil rights workers and a few whites--to challenge segregation laws in various public facilities in the Deep South. The bus driver yelled to the Anniston crowd, "Well, boys, here they are. I brought you some niggers and nigger-lovers...
...want a boycott, but we do want to send a message to distributors to stop intimidating their workers," Rooks said...
There are reasons to believe that identity politics should be suffering the same fate as political correctness. Just this past month, a group of students at Syracuse University unsuccessfully called for the national boycott of Denny's, the fast-food restaurant. They claim that they were mistreated a year ago for being Asian. The local authorities disagree. There does not seem to be any evidence, and no one, except some federal officials, seem to care...