NAACP Wants African-Americans To Stay Away From Target (Liberal Stuck-On-Stupid Alert)

WBAL.com ^ | 07/17/2006 | AP

[coconutt2000]

Recipe for politically correct, dismal service.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Shakedown!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

As freeper no dems has the right to transact business with whom he so chooses (from another thread), so do Americans of African descent.

People should make decisions for themselves, though. Not because the NAACP ordered them to.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Even companies that make an effort to work with minority-owned businesses typically spend barely 5 percent of their contracting dollars with them

And 20 percent of their contracting dollars making sure they're complying with minority-owned business regulations.

[Graybeard58]

Shakedown!

Yep. I wonder why Je$$e Jack$son doesn't have his paws in this? Or does he?

[Kakaze]

" Wachovia got a perfect score on community relations. The company pays all employees to donate four hours a month to local charities, and employees volunteered for 650,000 hours in 2005, said G. Dewey Norwood Jr., an assistant vice president. "

Compensated volunteerism is not charity, it's called employment.

[msnimje]

Should Target put a sign on the door informing the public that the NAACP has dictated "No Coloreds Allowed?"

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Nobody should be racist, be the person of African, European, Latino, Asian, or other descent.

[llevrok]

I stay away from Target because of their ban on the Salvation Army kettle folks at Christmas.

[Graybeard58]

five ignored the survey, including four retailers: Dillard's Inc.; Kohl's Corp.; Sears, Roebuck and Co.; and Target Corp.

Good for them!

[Republican Wildcat]

Most companies are advertising to "people" - not an "us" or "them" but "people."

[Navy Patriot]

Bruce Gordon is in line for a promotion to the rank of "Reverend Jackson, First Class".

[Question Liberal Authority]

I know some people whose entire job it is to make sure that minorities are x% of this and y% of that. Of course, it's not a quota or set-aside, because that would be wrong.

The sheer number of counter-productive hours engaged in this dreck is mind-boggling. Say they need a box of pencils. They can't just run down to Staples with a dollar bill and buy a box of pencils. They have to know that the company that sold them the pencils was x% minority owned, and that the company that supplied the pencils to the seller was y% minority owned and that the people who supplied the wood to make the pencils were z% minority owned. It's insane.

I would bet money that pretty much ANY publicly traded corporation is at least 30% minority owned, maybe 70% or more. Especially when you consider that women qualify as a minority under most of these non-set aside, non-quota "goals".

[Sonny M]

The NAACP focused on Target because they're one of the nation's most prominent national retailers, said John C. White, NAACP spokesman.

Um no.

He pretty much just lied through his teeth.

The NAACP has had it in for Target ever since Target had a line of clothes called "88".

It became a hot seller for them, but Target knew it was over racial reasons, and ignored them until publicity caught up and they had to pull the line.

Ever since then, the hyper racial paranoia has been locked in and looking at Target funny.

[Slings and Arrows]

AFAIK, my state (SC) is still being boycotted by the NAACP. The net effect has been...a few posts on Free Republic.

[snakedriver]

How very profound. Thanks.

[hotshu]

"Kohl's Corp"?

B-b-b-but, isn't that Sen. Herb Kohl's? (D-WI)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

No need to be rude.

[mojo_the_migo]

Quotas has come to mean pushing a particular minority in. Company A need aleast 50% non-white male(aka minorities).

Wasn't it keeping a limit on a particular minority?
Company A can only have a maximum amount of 10% blacks.