Black Lives Matter calls for month-long boycott of ‘white companies’ during the holiday season to support ‘Black Xmas’ and end ‘White-supremacist-capitalism’

  • Black Lives Matter calls on supporters to boycott “white” companies, organizations and banks this holiday season
  • “We are dreaming about a #BlackXmas. This means that you won’t spend with any white businesses, according to the Black Xmas official website.
  • BLM claims that ‘white-supremacist-capitalism is complicit in the murder of Black people by police’ pushing for ‘Black-led-Black-serving organizations’
  • Black Xmas was started on Black Friday. It will be in effect until New Years Day.
  • A holiday boycott started in 2014 after John Crawford was shot and killed by police while shopping at an Ohio Walmart.  










Black Live Matter’s seventh-year boycott of ‘white’ companies during Christmas has been announced by the movement. This is to help ‘Black Xmas’.

On Black Friday, the official Black Lives Matter Global Network shared an Instagram post calling to ‘support Black-led-Black-serving organizations.’ 

We’re fantasizing about #BlackXmas. That means no spending with white companies’  from Black Friday until New Years Day the official blackxmas.org site states. 

Three ways are suggested by the group for supporters to participate in Black Xmas: Buy Black, Build Black and Bank Black. 

The group is encouraging its followers to ‘buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses’ claiming ‘white-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life.’ 

The Black Lives Matter movement is calling for supporters to boycott 'white' companies, organizations, and banks from Black Friday until New Years Day

Black Lives Matter is asking supporters to boycott white companies, organisations, and banks between Black Friday and New Years Day. 

Black Xmas was started in 2014 in response to the police killing of John Crawford, a black man who was fatally shot while inspecting a BB gun on sale at an Ohio Walmart

Black Xmas started after John Crawford was shot and killed by police while inspecting a BB guns at an Ohio Walmart.

It encourages supporters to donate to Black-led, Blackserving Organizations in place of holiday gifts. 

Black Xmas began in 2014 as a response to John Crawford’s police shooting. Crawford, a Black man was being held a BB Gun that was on sale at the Ohio Walmart. 

Black Lives Matter posted several names, including Steven Taylor. Yuvette Henderson, Redel, and Steven Taylor died in the same incident.

A blog post published on the blacklivesmatter.com last week explains: ‘Black Lives Matter has been challenging people to ‘dream of a #BlackXmas,’ to intentionally use our economic resources to disrupt white-supremacist-capitalism and build Black community.’

BLM claims that 'white-supremacist-capitalism is complicit in the murder of Black people by police' and calls for its supports to back 'Black-led-Black-serving organizations'

BLM claims that ‘white-supremacist-capitalism is complicit in the murder of Black people by police’ and calls for its supports to back ‘Black-led-Black-serving organizations’

The organization is calling for 'no spending with white companies' during the holiday season

This organization calls for no holiday spending by white companies

Black Xmas’ website has a list of recommended organizations, banks, and companies to support. While the event has been taking place for several years now, the site only includes maps with recommended shopping for Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, and South Bend, Indiana.

The Black Lives Matter movement claims that ‘white-supremacist-capitalism is complicit in the murder of Black people by police.’ 

Black Xmas, according to them, “challenges” us to let go of the consumerism chains and fully tap into our collective power.

Bossip of “white” companies, banks, or organizations ‘is about self-determination and building new structures that are more beneficial and viable.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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