FROM ALONZOS BLOG2007 has been a terrible year for racial profiling & police abuse regarding African Americans in the Kansas City area. Two pregnant Black women (Sophia Salva & Yvette Hayes) were forced on the ground by different police agencies for no justifiable reason. One woman lost her baby and both women have filed lawsuits. Another KCK Black family has filed a lawsuit against the KCK Police Department for abuse after the police crashed into their home and called them the N-word. Finally, even a well known anti crime community activist (Ron McMillan) was abused at the hands of local police.
Lawsuits are not the only way the Black community plans on dealing with these injustices. There is a national movement to take the Black out of Black Friday.
Local activists will tie into this national boycott by asking local African Americans not to shop at JCPenny during Black Friday & over the holiday weekend. JCPenny is the corporation that originally racially profiled Yvette Hayes and set into motion the chain of events that lead the pregnant woman to end up face down on the ground on the side of the highway. Futhermore, the company has made no attempt to reach out to the Black community to explain or to defend the charges Miss Hayes has made against them.
Activist, Alonzo Washington, activist, Ron McMillan (National Coalition of Jena 6) & a member of American Friends are leading the boycott in Kansas City.
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I am sure that Penny's is terrified about this. Remember how successful the last one of these was? Yeah me neither.
