Posted on 08/18/2006 11:07:06 AM PDT by neverdem
The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had “ripped off” urban communities for years, “selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.”
In the interview, published yesterday in The Los Angeles Sentinel, a weekly, Mr. Young said that Wal-Mart “should” displace mom-and-pop stores in urban neighborhoods.
“You see those are the people who have been overcharging us,” he said of the owners of the small stores, “and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs.”
Mr. Young, 74, a former mayor of Atlanta and a former United States representative to the United Nations, apologized for the comments and retracted them in an interview last night. Less than an hour later, he resigned as chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group created and financed by the company to trumpet its accomplishments.
“It’s against everything I ever thought in my life,” Mr. Young said. “It never should have been said. I was speaking in the context of Atlanta, and that does not work in New York or Los Angeles.”
His remarks drew forceful condemnation from Arab, Jewish and Asian leaders.
The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham H. Foxman, called the comments “very hurtful.”
“The sad part,” he said, is that “even people of color and even minorities who suffered discrimination and prejudice are not immune from being bigoted and racist and even anti-Semitic.”
In the six months that Mr. Young was under contract with the Wal-Mart-financed group, he traveled the country promoting the retailer, meeting with community groups and writing opinion...
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WTF?
It has basically already disappeared.........
Why was Wal-Mart stupid enough to hire this racist in the first place?
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it's the old "speaking out of context" gambit at work.
Therefore, I presume, it's OK for Mr. Young to make racist comments about Jews, Koreans and Arabs in Atlanta?
Gee, isn't that special?
Notice that not once in this diatribe did Young ever suggest the idea of black Americans becoming entrepeneurs and opening their own stores.
Old-school liberalism at it's very worst.
Rather weak rebuttal.
Andrew Young was not only mayor of a major American city, he was a representative to the United Nations and still is a major figure in Democratic circles. He is a nationally and internationally known person.
But, most importantly he is considered a leader in the civil rights arena. And for a civil rights leader to make those kind of statements seems to me much more serious than an actor making drunken slurs.
Any ideas why the NYT didn't make that the hed instead? Think they were trying to bury the story in the headline? Naaaah.
Another one of Jimmah's protegies.
Interesting!
Yup!
"Speaking in the context of Atlanta..." Hmm. I'll have to roll that one around between my fingers a bit, figure out what it means.
Yep, I have that problem frequently - saying stuff that is against everything I ever thought in my life. I blame it on the implants that were surgically embedded in my cortex the first time that the aliens abducted me...
Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had “ripped off” urban communities for years, “selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.”
Ripped WHO off? I'll betcha all that stale bread, bad meat and wilted vegetables was bought with tax dollars from MY paycheck (i.e. food stamps). Are you really getting ripped off if it doesn't cost you anything?
Anyway, the last time I was in the produce section of a Walmart, the produce looked NASTY!
Ping
They both suffer from terminal diarrhea of the mouth.
Two-faced b@st@rd. Guess his globe trotting caught up with him, and forgot where he was.
What, "people of color" are supposed to be immune to racism? What, fella, is it something only white Christians do?
Come down off your cloud and re-read Lord of the Flies. People always find reasons to hate each other. It has absolutely nothing to do with race, color, creed, etc. Those are only distractions, convenient foils.
If God himself came in the flesh, people would hate Him, too. In fact, they did.
The racist and anti-Semitic Democrat Party of Al "Jew interloper", "Jew Diamond Merchants" Sharpton, Jessie "HymieTown" Jackson, and Hillary "f'ing Jew B***aed" Clinton, is now joined by the Internationally reknowned symbol of tolerance "diplomat" Andrew Young.
Shame on them all. Shame on the MSM for not paying attention and giving these bigots a free pass.
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