There was no march and the gathering in DC was NOT about boycotting Black Friday. Minister Farrakhan did implore us to boycott the holiday gift giving altogether, but that wasn't the focal point of the speech(es).
Like I said in another thread, y'all only touted this weak ass plan because you knew it would fail and it would give you a chance to chastise black people. It's a dumb plan which you've failed to sell anybody on. I'd bet most of those with their noses up never shop on Black Friday anyways so they didn't even have to 'sacrifice', they'd just stand in the cut with their soap box ready to grandstand at a moment's notice.
The most storied boycott in this country's history is the the bus boycotts in Alabama. That had a very specific target: the bus company. They didn't boycott local businesses in hopes that those owners would pressure the bus company into changing its policies...They went directly at the target. That boycott had a very specific goal: stop the policy of mistreating black riders. Everybody involved or just watching from the sidelines knew exactly what would need to happen in order to stop the boycott....change those policies. Furthermore, that boycott realized that the boycott could not be successful if they just asked people not to ride the bus; people had bills to pay and mouths to feed. Thus they created mechanisms like shared rides that would actually make the boycott doable.
Even though they hit the pockets (significantly) of the entity with direct power over what they were asking and they were clear on what they were asking, that entity STILL held out for over a year before caving. Yet y'all really act like hitting the pockets of retailers for a weekend in the hopes that they'll guess your demands and then lean on politicians in order to get them to exact change with respect to police brutality?