Racist Remark At Walmart.

[GoGoKokiGo]

I guess someone at Wal-Mart went over the P.A. system and said "Attention, Wal-mart customers: All black people, leave the store now."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Black-people-must-leave-NJ-apf-1749619349.html?x=0
Some people are super angry about it and are going to boycott the store. Well actually I don't think it's some people, it just a lady and her friend (so far I guess). I personally think they should get over it. It's not like the president of Wal-Mart said it himself (herself?). It was probably just another customer anyhow. I mean you don't blame the soup if a fly lands on it do you? I'm pretty sure Wal-Mart has some employee rules that state "Please don't pick out a certain race and ask them to leave the store."

The lady that wants to boycott said that "I depended on Walmart  for all my needs, because the store has pretty much everything you could want" and "But until this issue is addressed in a way I'm comfortable with, I can't walk through those doors again." That sounds like someone who is going to have her issues addressed with gift cards to be comfortable. Who gets angry at a store then say it has pretty much everything you could want? If I was angry at a store I would say something like: "I really liked it before this incident, but now I'm going to burn this mother down."

It was most likely a joke. A really bad one, but a joke none the less. I don't even shop at Wal-Mart so this isn't a really big deal for me. I just think some people take some bad things and run a little too far with it. I'm pretty sure one of you is thinking: "Hey you don't understand because you're not black!" Well for one, how did you know? And two, if someone went over the P.A. system at a store I shopped at and said: "All mixed race shoppers, leave the store." I actually think I would find it funny and wouldn't try to boycott everything that moved. But that's just me. Any thoughts?

[andrespinilla]

I think I would just not go to that particular store. Wal Mart is great in saving money. You can't throw away all the apples just because there is one bad apple in the bunch.

It was probably a dumb employee that thought the P.A. was off and decided to do a joke.

[home_teachin]

We used to get on the intercom and joke around when I was a teenager. We used to page people to the condom department, or say a customer needs help finding strawberry douche, silly stuff like that. I imagine that is what happened here, and you can't blame Walmart.

[lynnc35]

I would think Wal-mart would take more precautions to keep customers off of their pa systems after this. It would be rather mean to hear this and I do not blame the woman. I think wal-mart should come out with a public apology to this person and all people for allowing something like this to happen. All people are created equal, and when a person walks into their store, they should be treated with decency and integrity, this is a total fail on walmarts part.

[mc1962]

We used to get on the intercom and joke around when I was a teenager. We used to page people to the condom department, or say a customer needs help finding strawberry douche, silly stuff like that. I imagine that is what happened here, and you can't blame Walmart.
[/quote.........Mr. Jones to the condom dept. please ........funny stuff!!  


Funny!!

[ktheodos]

unfortunate story, but at the same time, I think some people are overreacting and overgeneralizing about Walmart-chill out a bit, it's not like walmart is suddenly bad b/c one comment that might have not even have been from the store itself

[lvstephanie]

I agree that it was a sorry incident to have happened. But at the same time people shouldn't be so sensitive that if something like that happens they immediately target Walmart. It would be like someone boycotting FC because some idiot wrote some racist remark in the forums. At least here FC can delete any such comment made as well as ban the person from FC. I'm sure if Walmart had known who was responsible, they'd be banning the person from the store as well. Who knows?... It may have even been a form of corporate sabotage: have a K-mart employee make the announcement on the Walmart PA in hopes that shoppers would indeed boycott Walmart and favor K-mart instead...

It would be a different matter if "No Black People Allowed" became a corporate policy, if there were e-mails passed between executives urging store managers to prohibit Hispanics from shopping, or even if a customer were to make such an announcement to then condone what was said. 

[lorimerk]

i think some people are overreacting it should not have been said

[gesus]

Is that the only thing he had to do with his time smh

[dreamyxo]

If it was an employee they should be fired. 

[oldbuddy]

COME ON!!! This is stupid and probably some jerk trying to go for the deep pockets. Wal-Mart is a huge target with a big green money bag as the bullseye. I scanned the article, but I didn't notice anyone died, did you? Like the one black guy said, he has heard a lot worse, but probably not from anyone who had a lot of money to go after.

[aminahmyers]

I THINK THE COMMENT WAS JUST IMMATURE AND STUPID.

[Eclipse98RS]

Personally I think its funny, if I heard over walmart PA "All white people leave the store" I wouldn't be offended I would just laugh. Obviously the person has no real authority to tell people to leave the store. Just some moran playing a joke. Shouldn't of been said but not really a big deal. The lady who complained just wants her 5 minutes of fame.

[superteacher]

I agree. Not a big deal! I would not mind at all

[sigmapi1501]

The first sentence of the article says they apologized. AND they chagrined.