Holiday sales took a big dip over the weekend and some attribute it to #BlackOutBlackFriday. Get the deets inside along with info about President Obama's requests for police body cameras.
The numbers are in and both online and in stores sales dropped 11 percent, to $50.9 billion, from $57.4 billion last year, according to preliminary survey results released Sunday by the National Retail Federation.
While experts may place blame on the weather, gas prices or other external factors, we'd like folks to remember that a national call was issued on social media to "Black Out" Black Friday in light of the shooting death of Michael Brownand the uprising in Ferguson,
Maybe sales dipped because Black people care? And maybe people who aren't Black care? Rahiel Tesfamariam a social activist, founder of Urban Cusp, and the figure behind the Black Friday protest #NotOneDime told TheGrio,
“The fact that there was any decline in sales on Black Friday, but 11 percent at that, is absolutely significant and celebratory. The decline matters despite the fact that the mainstream media is not acknowledging its role. Ironic that so many cable news networks covered the boycott throughout Friday and online news outlets wrote about it last week but are not making the connection in their coverage of a sales decline.”
Read More: http://theybf.com/2014/12/01/blackoutblackfriday-thanksgiving-weekend-sales-down-11-percent-president-obama-requests
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