"All Black People" Asked to Leave S. Jersey Wal-Mart

[biteme]

I can see losers running to lawyers to get a jump on the lawsuits
Love the comment about Walmart needing to be more responsible, like the company really could have done anything about this, its like saying a company should be more responsible because they got hacked, or a rape victim should be more responsible for getting raped in daylight jogging in an open park
If there's money to be made someone will point a finger and sue. I'll be surprised if Sharptongue isn't all over this by the end of the day going for his pound of flesh



http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...-88118157.html

"All Black People" Asked to Leave S. Jersey Wal-Mart
Store is looking at security video to figure out who made the announcement
Updated 10:50 AM EDT, Wed, Mar 17, 2010


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.



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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.

[sheevaa]

Disgruntled employee, much? I would say they should look at anyone who's been recently reprimanded or close to being let go.
Or someone who's been there for 15 years...Lord knows I'd want to fuck things up after that much time there, lol.

Yeah, I'm sure there will be lawsuits too. Anyone with half a brain in their head is going to realize it was an individual action, not something the store endorsed. Already though, you can see people getting their backs up. It's just a matter of time before the volley of ridiculous lawsuits come.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Covington and Elllington are boycotting the store.

What a bunch of whiny shits. Do they actually expect that the idot that did it can't/won't do it somewhere else? I advise they lock themselves in a basement without utilities or contact with society.

While what the asshat did is unacceptable, their reaction is almost as idiotic.

[dmax]

I think it was a brutha that made that announcement. "Yo! I'll go make the nouncement now... we sue tomorrow!"

[dmax]

Seriously, though, I fail to see a problem here. The announcer made a polite request.

[cubby]

When I worked for Wal-Mart all you had to do to operate the PA system was pick up a phone and hit the PA button!! Anybody could have done it. They have phones all over the store, at least down here in the backwards south. The manager are just now getting the head set phones.

In the store I worked in there was a phone in every department sitting on a post right out in the open. Even if the PA button isn't marked trial and error will get you there and if the store is operating on a skeleton staff then there's no one to see or stop them.

I think you're right someone is loking to soak Wal-Mart again for something WM really has no control over. Except maybe they should hide the phones better.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Walmart sells cotton balls!

[biteme]

Walmart sells cotton balls!

Do they come in sacks?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Do they come in sacks?

Plastic ones. Being a responsible company, they do not want them roaming the aisles scaring anyone.

[Twisted]

This reminds me of a similar story that came up with a mall here in the Denver Area, specifically the Aurora Mall.

Those who know the area would know that Aurora is largely low-income, and African-American. For a long time, the Aurora Mall looked pretty trashy, and was known for violence, shooting, and other unpleasant things.

In response, the owning company decided to redesign and refit the mall. They said their goal was to "improve the atmosphere and to reduce the unpleasant elements.. namely the young black shoppers."

Needless to say, the woman who wrote that press release was promptly fired. I'm personally impressed someone who would say it would get into Public Relations as a career.

[moonlilly1981]

The difference between the walmarts in cecil county and the walmarts in anne arundel are the black people. I much prefer the white walmarts. I prefer rednecks to city trash. I know thats coming out all wrong but oh well. I dont dislike black people. What was done is wrong. But seriously. The attitude and atmospher is so much nicer at the redneck walmarts.

[Twisted]

I go to Target, it's like Walmart for people who make about $10K per year more.

[thequeenofsorrow]

a lot of family in South Jersey. it's an interesting area. Until they get their own state (they want North Jersey and South Jersey as different states) they'll all be some pissed off folks.

[biteme]

I go to Target, it's like Walmart for people who make about $10K per year more.

I shop at 5th Avenue New York when I don't have time to go to Paris or Milan it's for those making 400 grand more a year
LOL,
Just kidding, my buttler/body double does all my shoping for me

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I shop at Walmart. I prefer to spend my money on pool boys and trips to Vegas.

[Twisted]

I shop at Walmart. I prefer to spend my money on pool boys and trips to Vegas.

:-) At least one of those is only worth it to me if I don't have to pay for it.

[Pete Bondurant]

This reminds me of a similar story that came up with a mall here in the Denver Area, specifically the Aurora Mall.

Those who know the area would know that Aurora is largely low-income, and African-American. For a long time, the Aurora Mall looked pretty trashy, and was known for violence, shooting, and other unpleasant things.

In response, the owning company decided to redesign and refit the mall. They said their goal was to "improve the atmosphere and to reduce the unpleasant elements.. namely the young black shoppers."

If they want to keep the coloured people away, all they have to do is play country music over the PA system.

[Echo]

I didn't realize that we had segregated our discount stores.......I had no idea there were actually "black" Walmarts and "redneck" Walmarts. Go figure.

I was under the impression that all Walmarts were "Redneck"

Oh wait they are....

[Twisted]

Such segregation may not exist in New York, but believe me, voluntary segregation is very much alive in certain parts of the country.

[Echo]

Such segregation may not exist in New York, but believe me, voluntary segregation is very much alive in certain parts of the country.

We dont have a walmart........maybe that is the defining factor?

[Aslan]

New York?
You don't need a Wal-Mart to point out the assholes.

You do however have the best St. Patrick's Day Parade going.
Full of drunken assholes;)

Doesn't Wal-Mart record everything? They should be able to get a tape and show this wasn't an employee.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The Washington Township Wal-Mart where someone used the public-address system to announce Sunday night that black shoppers should leave the store is making changes to discourage further incidents. The actions came as township police yesterday checked "on a couple of leads" they hoped would help identify the person. Police said they did not know whether the person was an employee.

Store officials said they were working to reduce the number of public-accessible phones with public-address capabilities. Authorities said that the statement could have been made from one of 25 phones in the Wal-Mart, and that not all were in range of security cameras.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local...ncident_1.html

Action News has learned there's been an arrest in connection with the racist announcement made over a South Jersey Walmart intercom.

Earlier Friday, Walmart issued a statement saying their probe determined that a specific customer may have been responsible.
[...]

Police expect to release the arrest details Saturday.

The accused is expected to face charges of bias intimidation and harassment.

Walmart has turned over evidence to police.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?se...cal&id=7340829

[Rockin Ma]

The difference between the walmarts in cecil county and the walmarts in anne arundel are the black people. I much prefer the white walmarts. I prefer rednecks to city trash. I know thats coming out all wrong but oh well. I dont dislike black people. What was done is wrong. But seriously. The attitude and atmospher is so much nicer at the redneck walmarts.

If we segregated ourselves 'round here, I'd much prefer the baggy pants, gold chains and good smelling lotions and muslim oils over dirty wife beaters, back pimples and mullets. Just think of the website peopleofwalmart

:P

[MichaelJCheaney]

Such segregation may not exist in New York, but believe me, voluntary segregation is very much alive in certain parts of the country.

I find it interesting that when people talk about segregation, that its ALWAYS the white people who get blamed. When -at least in my perception anyway- that it goes both ways....

The City of Milwaukee is a great example of this. When manufacturing started taking a nose dive in the 80's those that could afford to leave and move west into Waukesha county did. leaving those that couldn't or didn't want to to fend for themselves, in what is basically a dying city, which has now become the murder, robbery, gang banging capital of Wisconsin.....

How exactly is this a white persons fault?

Back to topic though....

Bias and intimidation?

What the hell kinda charge is that?

A misdemeanor at best?

Anyone care to bet that they add a hate crime enhancer?

[Echo]

If we segregated ourselves 'round here, I'd much prefer the baggy pants, gold chains and good smelling lotions and muslim oils over dirty wife beaters, back pimples and mullets. Just think of the website peopleofwalmart

:P

I'm right with you Rockin'........I feel safer in the city than I do in any po dunk town I have ever been in. Its like stepping back in time and its just too damn creepy.

I live in what most would consider a "scary" "unsafe" neighborhood in Brooklyn and have never been bothered in any way........and I am literally the only white person around. My neighborhood is beautiful, full of gorgeous brownstones etc. Muslim oils, mosques, the whole shebang. I have been welcomed with open arms by my neighbors and everyone else. Living proof that self segregation is born of fear and not necessary. If people stuck around instead of making assumptions about people that appear to be different than them on the surface, they might actually learn something.

The poster "Cheaney" is referring to "White Flight" Whatever. Let them flee. They are missing out and they don't even know it.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Most people don't like bitchy people who look down their noses at others with "better than you" attitudes (except maybe on those "Housewives of... " shows). Us hicks are pretty intolerant of intolerance and ignorant assumptions.

If you were welcomed with open arms, it had to do with your positive and intelligent attitude and that attitude would be welcome anywhere... even here in hicksville.

[Echo]

Most people don't like bitchy people who look down their noses at others with "better than you" attitudes (except maybe on those "Housewives of... " shows). Us hicks are pretty intolerant of intolerance and ignorant assumptions.

If you were welcomed with open arms, it had to do with your positive and intelligent attitude and that attitude would be welcome anywhere... even here in hicksville.

I hear you Dakota, there is ignorance every where, intelligent people tend to open their minds to what or who is different from them, regardless of where they may live. At times, (particularly in this very thread) the comments on this board regarding race and discrimination can be pretty jaw droppingly ignorant and pathetic. Actually a lot of the comments regarding this subject (white/black walmarts) were laughable in their sheer stupidity.


"Po Dunk" was not a "better than you attitude", it was a response to the term "City Trash" (not said by you) If being city trash means that I do not choose my stores by the race of the people that shop there means that I feel that I am better than someone than I guess I am. That statement was pretty po'dunk if you ask me.

[Valasca]

Police in New Jersey have made an arrest in connection with a public address system announcement at a Wal-Mart store telling "all blacks" to leave.

More details are expected to be announced later Saturday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03...ark/index.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I was referencing the generalization of small towns and it's inhabitants. A small town is just a big city neighborhood surrounded by country scenery instead of city scenery and a walk between neighborhoods is shorter. :)

Having lived for years in big cities (not that big - Minneapolis and Phoenix), I can say there is not a thing I miss. Maybe if I was single I would but that's a lifestyle I left behind years ago. I have no desires to be a 50 year old club girl LOL

[Pete Bondurant]

Are the prices lower at the Jewish Wal Mart?