Were they wearing a purple shirt?
Why yes. Yes they were.
Posted on 03/17/2010 6:00:06 AM PDT by Hoodat
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 stuneed 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.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
The Congressional Back Caucus will probably have to hold hearings!
Get over African Americans...somebody was pranking!
"I like big butts, and I cannot lie . . ."
You know, history and surnames get tangled up, sometimes. And, sometimes, race, history and surnames get tangled up, too. I know I was shocked when I realized that Austan Goolsbee, in the Obama administration, was white. I’ve never met a white one; I thought they had all died out or something. Plenty of black ones, though.
Along those lines, the English surnames “Covington” and “Ellington” are somewhat unusual in the northeast. Both of them are common here in NC, and both were plantation owning families. So, an assumption that these two women are black is a logical one.
The spelling of “Shelia” instead of “Sheila” is another clue. That’s just the way it’s spelled for black women, for whatever reason.
So, perhaps you have a point in questioning the assumption, but I strongly suspect you don’t.
Or possibly stoned.
Nailed it.
Well in the spirit of the census we are all to refer the above said darker people by their proper designation..NEGROID. I mean why not, the government likes to make these distinctions, it’s important to them, because NEGROIDS are different than other peoples as per Margeret Sanger(Plannned Parenthood) a darling of the radical left. “NEGROIDS are an inferior race”, to quote Sanger, a “More ignorant , brutish, closer to our hominid roots than other Homo Sapiens.” That is the secret of the radical left, the lily white academics, they think black folks are chimps, they are useful, dumber and pliant drones to direct. I can’t say with Hip Hop culture and the dumbing down of blacks by their own, they deliberately try and portray themsdelves as trained organ grinder monekeys to entertain the rest of us.
I just hope it wasn’t “stunnin” or “stuntin”...
Most (?) Walmart stores are set up so anybody can make an announcement from any store phone if they know what number to punch.
I have been to this store, and live within 10 miles of this location. There is some truth to Clemenza’a statement. The offended are likely residents of a neighboring town. Williamstown, NJ.
“store employees looked stuneed when they heard it.”
stuneed = stuned
Just to pick a nit here, it should be:
stuneed => stunned
There. Fixed it.
Very Funny, I’m calling my Attorney now.
It makes me wonder if there might be some way to “hack in” to the PA system by way of some wireless device
easy to do with a cb radio & a 500 watt amplifier sitting in the parking lot.....
I’m sorry, I guess I don’t really understand this - someone told the black people to leave the store and now black people are boycotting? Is that right?
I like your announcement much better:)
I know that. That is a Freeper running joke along the lines of “hugh = huge”, etc.
Wal Mart *is* the epitome of evil to “progressives” so this could very well have been an ACORN or moveon.org setup.
Could be another one of these cases:
Black Firefighter Admits Placing Noose, Note
http://www.newsroomamerica.com/usa/story.php?id=401789
This one kinda fits in with the flier that comes out every election.
TUESDAY IS VOTING DAY FOR REPUBLICANS
WEDNESDAY IS VOTING DAY FOR DEMOCRATS
Except in this case someone will be offended to the tune of several thousand dollars.
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