Make Georgia Howl

Time To Boycott the State For Its Jim Crow Voting Law

“I Can Make The March And Make Georgia Howl…” — General William T. Sherman

Last time I was in Georgia, I stumbled upon a Black Hair show at a fancy downtown hotel in Atlanta. Atlanta was booming back then, as it is now. I was on my way to Louisiana and decided to lay over for a few days with my family.

It was a joy to see the hair show; I even ran into a few barbers I knew from D.C. and one hairstylist as well.

I had Fried Chicken and Waffles when I was there as well. Visited the King Center, even had a look inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King once put out some amazing oral product.

A friend showed us around the famous black corridors and then we visited some friends in the Atlanta burbs living well. Black people.

Atlanta has been the spot for Black people ever since my cousin went there in the early 1980’s and got a job he says in 24 hours and then stayed for a few years. Atlanta is so dope you often forget it is located in cold blood, racist Georgia.

Stone Mountain, Georgia with the racist Confederate monument. Albany, Georgia, where Dr. King went to war with the Jim Crow system and lost. Brunswick, Georgia, where Black jogger, Ahmaud Arbery was tracked down and shot in broad daylight by two white men.

Now, I have been told we got to ‘Boycott Atlanta.’ Or as the character, Buggin’ Out (seen above) from Spike Lee’s film, Do The Right Thing Would Say, ‘Boycott Sal’s.

When I told a friend who has lived there for 20 years that boycott is the chatter on the streets, my friend said, bring it on. She called it the price of living in the Jim Crow South.

So ‘Make it howl,’ like Sherman did during his March through it during the Civil War is the call. There are other tactics to use but boycotting the state is a good start. This summer when things open back up, avoid Georgia…

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