How will punishing the people who work in Florida’s orange groves change anything?
Via CBS News:
Four days after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, civil rights activists decried Florida’s controversial self-defense law, with one calling for a possible boycott of the state’s orange juice.
Speaking at the NAACP’s national convention in Orlando, Martin Luther King III said one possible way to protest the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law is to stop consuming Florida orange juice.
“The true way generally when people don’t understand your plight is when you decide to exercise your buying power elsewhere,” King said.
King is not the first to suggest a boycott of citrus from the Sunshine State since the verdict. According to philly.com, several hundred protesters at Philadelphia’s Love Park on Sunday called for a boycott of Florida oranges and orange juice.
A message left with the Florida Department for Citrus was not immediately returned.