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 1^st 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.

Let me be clear: I was also shocked by the Zimmerman verdict.  Indeed, as John Guy, prosecutor, State of Florida said in his surrebuttal “It’s not about ‘standing your ground,’ but it is about staying in your car.”   However, that theme probably should have been repeated like a gospel chorus to the sequestered jury panel because they apparently did not get that.

The latest big “musical star” to suggest some kind of boycotting of Florida reportedly is Stevie Wonder.  It has been reported that Stevie Wonder has said that he will not play in Florida until “stand your ground” has been repealed.  We let me say the following without apology:  I don’t give one damn if Stevie Wonder ever sets foot inside this state ever again.  And everybody who knows me knows that I stand by Florida Statute 776.012 and the ancillary statutes that allow for me to defend myself with lethal deadly force.  Moreover, I’ll be damned if I “stand” around as a black-American male and let some interloping, self-appointed, self-anointed, self-proclaimed spokesman, or alleged “savior from the North” try to erode any civil right afforded to me under the pretense of “this is what is best for you.”

I am a proud man, who is relatively successful as a self-employed businessman, who does not ask anyone for anything, and who does for myself, and is intelligent, and who is politically independent, and a man who is highly educated, and who is heterosexual without apology, and one who will always embrace every right available to me under this constitution, and rejects the interloping, self-appointed, self-anointed, self-proclaimed spokesman, or alleged “savior from the North”  who tries to insult me with this condescending bullshit.

How can you argue for civil rights when you refuse to embrace all of them and act like I should do what you think is “morally right’ and not embrace all of my rights because you are afraid of amendment #2 of the U.S. Constitution?

This boycotting of Florida idea is so ridiculous.  Clearly you have not thought about the “folks” who work in the hotels, and other ancillary business.  And I know you have not considered the black-American owned business (because when you come here you don’t support any.) You who argue a pro-boycott Florida position don’t tip well when you come here anyway.  If Florida is so bad then why hasn’t the NAACP (whose convention is here as I speak) not closed up shop and left because of Florida being so horrible?  I just read on another post that the NABJ may cancel their convention later this month scheduled for Florida.  If they do, what are they going to do?  Are they going to  try to get their money returned that is already invested in the site of the convention, and the hotels?  They will not get their money returned.

Last evening, I “in boxed” another page here on Facebook called “F—CK FLORIDA” created by someone on my friends list arguing for a boycott of Florida.  I asked him if he knew that he was advocating could also hurt economically the very folks he claims to be protesting on behalf.  I reminded him that I am a small, independent black-American business here in Orlando.  He responded that “oh, I am not talking about you; I’m aiming at the big corporations.”  I guess he does not realize that black-Americans also work at those “big corporations” in some capacity.

So let me be even more direct: Go ahead and do your boycotts of Florida and Florida bashing.   I do not speak for all Floridians or all black-American Floridians but I so speak for myself.  I will survive your attempted boycott as most of the good folks in Florida will and we will not give one damn about your boycott and I damn for sure will not miss you not coming to this state.

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 1^st 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.

Let me be clear: I was also shocked by the Zimmerman verdict.  Indeed, as John Guy, prosecutor, State of Florida said in his surrebuttal “It’s not about ‘standing your ground,’ but it is about staying in your car.”   However, that theme probably should have been repeated like a gospel chorus to the sequestered jury panel because they apparently did not get that.

The latest big “musical star” to suggest some kind of boycotting of Florida reportedly is Stevie Wonder.  It has been reported that Stevie Wonder has said that he will not play in Florida until “stand your ground” has been repealed.  We let me say the following without apology:  I don’t give one damn if Stevie Wonder ever sets foot inside this state ever again.  And everybody who knows me knows that I stand by Florida Statute 776.012 and the ancillary statutes that allow for me to defend myself with lethal deadly force.  Moreover, I’ll be damned if I “stand” around as a black-American male and let some interloping, self-appointed, self-anointed, self-proclaimed spokesman, or alleged “savior from the North” try to erode any civil right afforded to me under the pretense of “this is what is best for you.”

I am a proud man, who is relatively successful as a self-employed businessman, who does not ask anyone for anything, and who does for myself, and is intelligent, and who is politically independent, and a man who is highly educated, and who is heterosexual without apology, and one who will always embrace every right available to me under this constitution, and rejects the interloping, self-appointed, self-anointed, self-proclaimed spokesman, or alleged “savior from the North”  who tries to insult me with this condescending bullshit.

How can you argue for civil rights when you refuse to embrace all of them and act like I should do what you think is “morally right’ and not embrace all of my rights because you are afraid of amendment #2 of the U.S. Constitution?

This boycotting of Florida idea is so ridiculous.  Clearly you have not thought about the “folks” who work in the hotels, and other ancillary business.  And I know you have not considered the black-American owned business (because when you come here you don’t support any.) You who argue a pro-boycott Florida position don’t tip well when you come here anyway.  If Florida is so bad then why hasn’t the NAACP (whose convention is here as I speak) not closed up shop and left because of Florida being so horrible?  I just read on another post that the NABJ may cancel their convention later this month scheduled for Florida.  If they do, what are they going to do?  Are they going to  try to get their money returned that is already invested in the site of the convention, and the hotels?  They will not get their money returned.

Last evening, I “in boxed” another page here on Facebook called “F—CK FLORIDA” created by someone on my friends list arguing for a boycott of Florida.  I asked him if he knew that he was advocating could also hurt economically the very folks he claims to be protesting on behalf.  I reminded him that I am a small, independent black-American business here in Orlando.  He responded that “oh, I am not talking about you; I’m aiming at the big corporations.”  I guess he does not realize that black-Americans also work at those “big corporations” in some capacity.

So let me be even more direct: Go ahead and do your boycotts of Florida and Florida bashing.   I do not speak for all Floridians or all black-American Floridians but I so speak for myself.  I will survive your attempted boycott as most of the good folks in Florida will and we will not give one damn about your boycott and I damn for sure will not miss you not coming to this state.