Nation preparing for “Blackout”, boycott of commercial goods, protest of injustices

Lawyer and talk show host of “Truth Fighters,” Warren Ballentine, issued a nationwide Blackout for Nov. 2. The Blackout is a day where, according to Ballentine, black people unite as one and refuse to buy anything for a whole day – including eating at restaurants, buying gasoline and groceries.
“I disagree with the blackout because not enough blacks would stand together and go a day without buying anything; I also feel that the only people holding on to racism are blacks,” said freshmen, criminal justice major, Catherine Jones, from Brigham, Ala.
Ballentine has made a name for himself by defending the black community in response to the lack of governmental intervention in such racial incidents as Jena Six and the Megan Williams rape cases.
In Jena, six young black students decided to end the custom of whites sitting under a certain tree at their high school after asking their principle if it was okay to sit under the “white tree”.
The day after the group ended the tradition, there were three nooses hanging from the tree. The punishment for the students, who did the “prank”, was a three-day suspension.
Following the act a white student decided to say racial slurs to a group of black students – which resulted in a fight that life a white student injured.
The condition of the white student is a debate; however many witnesses stated that the same student was at an event that the school held later that night.
Nevertheless, the black students were arrested. Mychal Bell, who was the one of the six young students, was the only one who was jailed and was tried as an adult.
Megan Williams, another black young adult, was brutally raped and torture for a week by six whites.
Seeing as the American government refuses to take action, Ballentine came up with a plan to show America how important blacks are to the economy.
According to Ballentine’s official website, thetruthfighters.com, the black community spends up to an estimated 715 billion dollars a year, therefore, if enough blacks participate in the Blackout – that is $2 billion dollars missing in the nation’s system.
“I think it is a great idea, and I am surely going to participate in it, because I would love to see how white people would react, if the whole black race stood together and refuse to buy anything from whites,” said freshmen criminal justice major Laneshia King from New Orleans.
Freshman, nursing major Jasmine Mayse from Inglewood, Calif., has mixed emotions towards the Blackout.
“I agree with the blackout, but I am not sure if I will take part in it, seeing as it has not been really broadcasted, and I might forget about it.”
“It is easy for people to say the blackout is not going to work, but with attitudes like that of course it will not. The black race could be a very powerful force, if we just learn how to stand together like our ancestors did. I think all blacks should at least make an attempt to participate in the blackout, to show how important the black community is,” said Southern alumna Renee Smith.