Black Lives Matter calls for month-long boycott of ‘white companies’
'White-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life,' BLM says
Larry Elder slams Black Lives Matter Utah chapter for calling US flag ‘symbol of hatred’
Salem Radio Talk Show host Larry Elder responds to a Black Lives Matter chapter in Utah’s statement against the American flag.
The Black Lives Matter movement’s national arm is leading a boycott of "white companies" until New Year’s Day, encouraging supporters to help "end white-supremacist-capitalism" by visiting only Black-owned businesses during the holiday shopping season.
"White-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life," reads an Instagram post by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. "Skip the Black Friday sales and buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses."
"We’re dreaming of a #Blackxmas. That means no spending with white companies from 11/26/2021 – 01/01/2022," the BlackXmas website says.
INSIDE BLM CO-FOUNDER PATRISSE KHAN-CULLORS' MILLION-DOLLAR REAL-ESTATE BUYING BINGE
The organization also calls on supporters to "move your money out of white-corporate banks that finance our oppression and open accounts with Black-owned banks."
The boycott, promoted under the hashtag #BlackXmas and #BuyBlack, among others, started on Black Friday and ends on New Year’s Day.
Black Lives Matter protesters march past the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger / AP Images)
"As BLMLA organizer, Jan Williams, reminds us, ‘Capitalism doesn’t love Black people,’" reads a blog post last week announcing the event. "In fact, white-supremacist-capitalism invented policing, initially as chattel-slavery-era ‘paddy rollers,’ in order to protect its interests and put targets on the backs of Black people."
"#BlackXmas challenges us to shake off the chains of consumerism and step fully into our own collective power, to build new traditions, and run an offense as well as a defense," the post continues. "Let’s harness our economic power to disrupt white-supremacist-capitalism and build Black community."
A person holds up a skateboard that says "BLM" as people gather in front of the police station in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 24, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images / Getty Images)
Black Lives Matter first launched the event in 2014 in response to the police-involved death John Crawford at a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio, the blog post states.
The website blackxmas.org provides maps showing people where they can find Black-owned stores, restaurants and banks in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, and South Bend, Indiana.
A video featured on the BlackXmas website show the BLM Los Angeles chapter protesting inside Beverly Hills businesses on Rodeo Drive in 2017.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS
A protester holds a sign during a march against racial inequality and police brutality that was organized by Black Lives Matter on June 12, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren / AP Images)
"Take it to the streets and f--- the police! No justice no peace!" the Santa-hat-wearing chanted in the video just before blocking the intersection of Rodeo and Santa Monica Boulevard.
BLM did not respond to FOX Business' inquiry on whether similar protests are planned for this year.