{"id":7463,"date":"2013-07-19T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2013-07-19T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:50:59","slug":"race-boycotts-loom-as-jesse-jackson-calls-florida-apartheid-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7463","title":{"rendered":"Race boycotts loom as Jesse Jackson calls Florida ‘Apartheid state’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called to boycott the \u201capartheid state\u201d of Florida if the Department of Justice does not lodge a civil rights case against George Zimmerman.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrayvon is a symbol of a deeper malady,\u201d the reverend said in a CNN interview Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state\u201d if the DOJ does not act, Jackson said.<\/p>\n

Jackson charged that homicides against blacks have tripled since stand your ground laws were put in place in Florida. The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that the law actually benefits blacks in the state disproportionately, saying blacks made about a third of Florida\u2019s total stand your ground claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of the state\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites,\u201d the Daily Caller said.<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King III said at a recent NAACP convention that if supporters of Trayvon Martin really want to put their money where their mouths are, they can boycott the Florida orange juice industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe true way generally when people don\u2019t understand your plight is when you decide to exercise your buying power elsewhere,\u201d he said at the Orlando, Fla., convention, CBS reported.<\/p>\n

He made the comments in the context of condemning \u201cstand your ground\u201d laws. He\u2019s not the first to raise the idea of boycotting Florida\u2019s citrus growers and sellers in the days since George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin \u2014 but he is one of the highest-profile figures to do so.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of protesters at Philadelphia\u2019s Love Park called for the same action on Sunday, just hours after learning of the acquittal.\u00a0–\u00a0The Washington Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called to boycott the \u201capartheid state\u201d of Florida if the Department of Justice does not lodge a civil rights case against George Zimmerman. \u201cTrayvon is a symbol of a deeper malady,\u201d the reverend said in a CNN interview Thursday. \u201cNo doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to … Continue reading “Race boycotts loom as Jesse Jackson calls Florida ‘Apartheid state’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[164,1102,326,4064,4065,324],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-apartheid","tag-cnn","tag-florida","tag-jesse-jackson","tag-race-boycotts","tag-trayvon-martin"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jessejackson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7466,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}