BOYCOTT FLORIDA? GO RIGHT AHEAD BECAUSE I WILL NOT MISS YOU.
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- Published: Wednesday, 17 July 2013 14:14
- Written by Attorney taleph Haynes Davis, Esq.
Posted on July 16, 2013
(Warning, some graphic language)
Okay I have had enough of this “boycotting Florida” idea. The fact of the matter is that when you boycott Florida, and assuming that it is successful, you have the potential to hurt the economy of the black-American community (and others) that you allegedly are trying to “help out” or “empathize with” or relate to by suggesting an economic boycott as a result of the Zimmerman verdict. You are entitled to your opinions and your freedoms of where you want to spend your money and where you want to spend your time on this earth. However, although I will fight for your 1st amendment freedoms to say what you want (because that is what I do as a freedom loving individual and lover of the constitution of this country), let me say also that advocating for those freedoms also includes advocating for your freedoms to utter things that are absolutely ridiculous.
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