Should I boycott Coca-Cola?

How about refusing to fly on Delta Airlines?

     Coke and Delta have been some of my favorite product choices my entire life. I can swear by the rich and delicious taste of Coke over its rival, Pepsi. I always felt comfortable and reassured when flying while hooked up with Delta Airlines, a pleasure I first experienced when first stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., for OCS, and later for the US Army’s jump school.

     They’re both headquartered in the state of Georgia. The state where the legislature, the senate, and the governor rammed through in one day the most severe curtailment of voting rights in my adult lifetime. They claim it’s to ensure voter integrity – to prevent voter fraud – but we all know that the 2020 election –was the most secure in history.

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     We also know that black voters in Georgia turned out in large numbers for the Democratic presidential candidate as well as the two fellows running for the senate in the run-off election on Jan. 5, 2021. They supported a Catholic for president and then a Jew and a black Baptist preacher for the Senate. You can’t get much more ecumenical than that!

     So, the powers that be in the “Empire State of the South” want no more liberal election outcomes in their state. They figure the only way to preserve their power and to win is to suppress the vote of blacks and other minorities, as well as younger people and the poor, who generally vote Democratic.

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How can we stop this?

Get the powerful corporations with headquarters in Georgia, particularly in the Atlanta area, to speak out against these shameful and undemocratic measures. Make them lean on the government leaders and curtail any and all campaign funding for ‘em. Boycott the businesses if that is what it will take to right this wrong in Georgia. It worked in North Carolina years ago when protesting that state’s actions against another minority group – transgender.

     I believe people of all races and all religions would gladly take part in such political actions.

It would simply be the Right Thing to do!

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Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola both came out against the Georgia law to suppress voting. See Retaliation) In addition, Major League Baseball announced that it will NOT play the All-Star game in Georgia. (No All-Star game.)

Meanwhile, in Texas, where other Republicans are seeking to suppress the vote, two firms came out against American Airlines and the Dell Corporation. (Vote was against voter oppression.)

(For another boycott suggestion, please check this out 😦Apartheid Georgia)