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...that that’s very ironic because he wrote it in 1953, and it was only a year later that Brown v. Board was handed down and it was only two years later that Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of the bus and the Montgomery boycott started and Martin Luther King became famous and the Civil Rights movement became the leading national issue...
Again in October of 2003, Urban Outfitters was persuaded to remove “Ghettopoly,” a version of the popular board game Monopoly, after the game sparked a national boycott by those who believed it perpetuated racial stereotypes...
...often the case when Dartboard hopes that things aren’t as ridiculous as they appear, she was again let down. According to the Associated Press, an “anti-abortion group, Pro-Life Waco…ran ads on a Christian radio station urging people to boycott Girl Scout Cookies because of the ‘cozy relationship’ between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood...
...eight Senate candidates-—seven of whom were members of Aristide’s Lavalas party—were seated after having only won pluralities, rather than the required majorities. Objective observers still called the elections a success, but the anti-Aristide opposition declared that they would boycott the presidential election that November. After winning by a landslide, and eager to remove any hint of impropriety, Aristide unseated the seven Lavalas senators who had assumed power in the contentious May elections. But the U.S. continued to side with the opposition, who unconditionally demanded that Aristide leave office before...
PETA also advocates boycotting charitable organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the American Red Cross and the American Foundation for AIDS Research, which all use testing on animals as a means to discovering cures to endemic diseases. The organization called a boycott of the March of Dimes, one of the nation’s largest annual charity events, and even considered disrupting local March of Dimes events and displays because some of the money that organization raised went to organizations and labs that used animal testing...