Bad Walmart

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officials are reviewing security tapes to try to determine who used a southern New Jersey store's public-address system to tell "all black people" to leave.

On Sunday evening at the Washington Township store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."

Witnesses told the Courier-Post newspaper that customers and store employees looked stunned. Management later apologized


I find this kind of funny as I am sure it was not an employee.

[Phishfan]

It was probably someone who had been employed by Wal-Mart at some point. Unless things are different since I worked there, you need to enter a code in the keypad for the phone to act as an intercom.

[Defense54]

I read Artie Lange's auto biography last year and he tells his first steps to being a comedian was going to local department stores and harassing everyone over the PA.  He loved the reaction and found his calling.  While I don't think Telling all black people to leave is really funny by itself, the reaction must have been hysterical.

I knew this guy when I worked in the County jail waaaaay back.  He wanted to Fuck with this gang of idiots that just came in. He reached over to his shoulder Mic and faked a transmition. He goes........Who do you need? Last name is Nigher? Then he spells it out loud,the N - word.  He goes hold on I'll see if he is here. They went Nuts. Screaming for Al Sharpton and demanding to be released. Not very professional at all. He passed away recently. That was one Crazy Mfer........

Lil B Edited to replace some offensive lanquage

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One of my friends got ahold of the blue light special cart and pushed it into the shoe dept of Kmart and announced over the PA, " Attention shoppers we currently have a blue light special in our shoe department where if you buy the left shoe at full price, the right one is absolutely free".
His mother was not amused.

[raptorsfan29]

It was probably someone who had been employed by Wal-Mart at some point. Unless things are different since I worked there, you need to enter a code in the keypad for the phone to act as an intercom.

or someone that just got fired that day

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

It is pretty obvious that this was a rouge indiviual and not Walmart's policy.

While the "joke" was in very poor taste, I quite frankly am more outraged at those who are using this to advance their own political agenda. 

To use this as a reason to demand that Walmart donate a substantial amount of money to the NAACP as retribution or face a boycott as some have suggesteed is extortion.  A considerable worst wrong than a poorly done prank by what likely was a some punk teen that is not an employee of Walmart.     

[Defense54]

It is pretty obvious that this was a rouge indiviual and not Walmart's policy.

While the "joke" was in very poor taste, I quite frankly am more outraged at those who are using this to advance their own political agenda. 

To use this as a reason to demand that Walmart donate a substantial amount of money to the NAACP as retribution or face a boycott as some have suggesteed is extortion.  A considerable worst wrong than a poorly done prank by what likely was a some punk teen that is not an employee of Walmart.     

Gotta agree here 100%.  The black race has been doing this for a while now though. Its Sharptons favorite tool in his little toolbox. 

[Sunstroke]

I saw a headline this morning (link to full article below) that made me want to smack someone and throw up, all at the same time. Supposedly some lady made the comment...

"I can't go back in," said Patricia Covington, who was also in the store and spoke to Philly.com. "I went to Target instead. I can't bring myself to go back in there."

Really? She were so traumatized by someone's prank of telling "all blacks" to leave the store that she can't even stand to go in there again? Even knowing that it wasn't the store that made the announcement? I sure hope this lady never gets insulted while at a restaurant, as I fear she'd never be able to eat again and would wither away and die of starvation.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/18/walmart.racial.customers/index.html

[Defense54]

I can see the Rows of lawyers lining up as we speak.   

[Dave Gray]

To use this as a reason to demand that Walmart donate a substantial amount of money to the NAACP as retribution or face a boycott as some have suggesteed is extortion.

Who is suggesting this?

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Who is suggesting this?

Didn't catch the sister's name...it was a quick clip on the news....random person, i think not an actual leader. 

[Dave Gray]

Didn't catch the sister's name...it was a quick clip on the news....random person, i think not an actual leader. 

Sounds like another case of fake outrage.  ...where the news picks up one uninformed idiot and creates a straw-man from them.

I'm not always the biggest fan of the NAACP, but I think it's only fair to call them out when they're actually doing something wrong.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Sounds like another case of fake outrage.  ...where the news picks up one uninformed idiot and creates a straw-man from them.
I'm not always the biggest fan of the NAACP, but I think it's only fair to call them out when they're actually doing something wrong.

No different than the national news picking up this story in the first place.  What was done was akin to someone spray painting graffiti on the side of a walmart.  At most this should have been the 5th story on the local news if they were having a slow new day.  It ain't national news.  That Walmart did anything wrong or that this is anything at all serious is the strawman. 

[Defense54]

Wouldn't it be great if a black person just looked right into a camera and said simply, NO.  I don't have to go anywhere. Thats all. No big dealo. I swear if more people just reacted like this 1/2 of the countries race problems would dissapear. Of course there will always be the racist asshats, but if no one listened, it would be much fun anymore would it? Jessie , Big Al would all be out of Jobs. People would feel good about themselves. imagine that?  Nope. Papers need stories and Lawyers need lawsuits. Racist leaders need something to be angry about.

Sad.

[Dave Gray]

Wouldn't it be great if a black person just looked right into a camera and said simply, NO.  I don't have to go anywhere. Thats all. No big dealo. I swear if more people just reacted like this 1/2 of the countries race problems would dissapear. Of course there will always be the racist asshats, but if no one listened, it would be much fun anymore would it? Jessie , Big Al would all be out of Jobs. People would feel good about themselves. imagine that?  Nope. Papers need stories and Lawyers need lawsuits. Racist leaders need something to be angry about.

Sad.

Again, why bring Jesse and Al into this?  They haven't done anything.  If they speak out and say something stupid, by all means, call them out, but it's not fair to knock them anytime any black person does something stupid.