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boycotting? this is beyond stupid.
bias crime?
Thanks progressives, but we're becoming a bunch of nancys.
Wal-Mart officials are looking at security tapes
after an announcement was made for "all black people''
to leave a store in South Jersey.
A man used the public-address system at the Route 42
store in Washington Township Sunday night and calmly announced:
"Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now.''
Patricia Covington and Shelia Ellington were inside the store
when it happened and told the Courier Post that customers
and store employees looked stunned when they heard it.
"In 2010, I want to know why such statements are being
made because it flies in the face of what we teach them [our kids]
at home, and that's tolerance for people," said Ellington. Weird News
Photos Weird News Photos LOOK Weird News Photos Ellington and
other customers let store management and police know they were
upset. They asked the store to use the same announcement system
to apologize to customers that night, which it did. Wal-Mart management
called the incident "unacceptable," and said it's working to make sure
nothing like this happens at any other stores. Washington Township
police and the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office are investigating
the incident as a possible bias crime. "I can't believe it in this day and age,"
Covington told the paper. "Wal-Mart needs to be more responsible."
Covington and Elllington are boycotting the store.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...-88118157.html
boycotting? this is beyond stupid.
bias crime?
Thanks progressives, but we're becoming a bunch of nancys.
I'd be one pissed off black man.
Hahahahahahaha
I think it's dumb for people to blame the Walmart unless they can prove an employee did it.
It used to be pretty easy to get on the PA using any publicly available phone at places like HEB and Wally-World. As long as you could read the word INTERCOM.
I'd like to think they'd at least put it to a code or something, but even then a former employee or anybody who knows the trick could just as easily pull it off.
Kids have stupid ideas for jokes these days, and I bet this is nothing more than that.
Last edited by Dex; 03-17-2010 at 05:02 PM.
and that's not an easy task.
I'm appalled. He should have been more PC and used the term "people of color".
Or as Denny Crane would call one judge, a Nambie Pambie...
Really now. They cannot just lock up the PA system. Who ever instigated what they though was a prank needs to be dealt with of found, but to hold the store responsible...
Bad form.
Also, can we stop being to sensitive to pranks people?
That's too funny.
I used the intercom at the local walmart a couple of months ago when I went there to get some paint. It was a special color, so I knew it would have to be mixed. Must have stood there for 15 minutes waiting for someone to show up and help me. After that, I was nice and pissed. That's when I noticed the phone sitting there. It had the intercom instructions printed clealy on it. Big mistake on their part, because I let them (and everyone else in the store) know that I was growing old waiting for assistance in the paint section. Two employees showed up within a minute.
I walked by the same paint section a week later and they had removed the phone.
I worked for Wal-Mart in the mid 90's and i had some fun with the intercom a few times.
Inhaling from the helium tank and making customer service pages etc....but racial slurs? Nah.....
The only plausible reconcilliation is to have the white man give iver his wife and daughters to the black man and allow his women to serve the black man as proper reparations.
Let's all have one big Licoln party.
Geeeeeeeze ...
I've always wanted to do that
Just a prank.
Hmmm, using the PA system to yell out "La Migra!" at a few of the Walmarts here on the Southside might be fun......
Just rig up your truck to look like an immigration services vehicle and drive around the San Marcos outlet mall around Easter time. People will gtfo of there faster than yelling "Cops!" at a keg party.
Somebody's bad idea of a prank. A non-issue.
No one credibly beleives that it is anywhere near official or even tolerated.
What if the person on the P.A. was a black person and was trying to get their fellow black people to leave for reasons of safety because the the P.A. person was about to punk all the white customers?
Everyone is too quick to assume they are being insulted.
But my point is that no person would mind if thier race was singled out for something good- like a free $ 50 giftcard- even though it meant other races were left out.
No one should get their panties in a knot when their race is on the receiving end of an unfortunate prank, as all races are from time to time.
This was likely the work of some punk kid trying to impress his/ her friends over spring break.
Walmart is not going to purposefully alienate customers, especially in this economy. The manager immediately apologized. So I don't see what more those people feel they are due.
LOL...
I was thinking it possible that the perpetrator was black, but not for that reason. Still, i guess I didn't want to express such a thought.
Well, I am half black so I can say it.
I'm 1/16th...Well, I am half black so I can say it.
Does that count?
You know the friend of the idiot that did this has the video of them doing it on their phone.
Sure- we'll claim you.
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