Summary Of The Red Apple Boycott

There has always been a history of conflict between two groups due to mistreatment and misinterpretations of actions. This especially occurs between majority and minority groups within an area. It can be seen during the Civil Rights movements and discrimination immigrants faced while settling in America. However, when an event occurs there are different reports as to what happened, usually one report favors the majority group and the other favors the minority group. Most of these events are not heard about until the media becomes involved making the situation bigger than it potentially is. Both readings deal with the The Red Apple Boycott which started after an altercation between a Haitian women and a Korean-American shopkeeper. Both parties have different claims, the Haitian women says that she was attacked by the store keeper and two other employees claiming it was also racially motivated. On the other hand, the store owner stated that the women refused to pay for the produce and that she was not attacked. This was the spark of the boycott that would last for eight months. …show more content…
The Korean population ran small business to as their source of income, and most opened grocery stores. In the Flatbush area it would only make sense that the grocery store’s main customers were black living in the area. Blacks on the other hand, very few ran small business and the majority worked for others in low paying jobs. The differences between these groups was used by the media to increase the tension when the boycotting gained the more