Comments on: Worst Case Scenario: Phoenix 2012 Boycott

By: chutney

chutney — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:37:47 +0000

I was at GA briefly for district business, but wasn’t around for the plenaries. The compromise seems to gone over pretty well, or at least I haven’t heard any blowback.

By: kim

kim — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:22:16 +0000

So, what do you think of the compromise they reached at GA? Are you going to be there?

By: chutney

chutney — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:06:15 +0000

Your story underscores how high a barrier a Phoenix boycott would have to surmount in order to be effective. I wouldn’t be surprised if the politicos who kept the Confederate flag on the SC flag see the NAACP boycott as a fringe benefit to their policy and get a good chuckle anytime they see it in the news.

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:57:52 +0000

I am a UU in South Carolina. The NAACP is conducting an ongoing boycott of my state because the state government will not remove the Confederate battle flag from a prominent position on the state house grounds. My UU congregation has been active in the protests against the flag.

It is difficult to see what effect the boycott is having, if any. Our convention centers, sports, and concert venues seem to track regional trends. Really, the only beneficial effect I see is that when the boycott stays in the news, the flag issue stays in the news. The unacceptable compromise on the Confederate battle flag was struck in 2001, and the boycott has been ongoing since then. The state leaders seem to consider it a non-issue and they do not pursue it. Yet the NAACP boycott is still keeping it in the news (http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=12045629).

If the Arizona immigration law is still on the books in 2012, it may be a good idea to have the boycott, simply to keep the issue in the forefront, even though the monetary impact of withholding our dollars from the state is likely to be minimal or zero.