Posted on 10/23/2015 10:12:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(KLFY) Acadia Parish, La. residents have mixed emotions about a photo featuring two educators at a costume party earlier this month.
Iota Middle School Principal Lee Ann Wall and her husband Jeptha Wall, who is a coach at Crowley High School, appear in the image.
Their costumes are described as People of Walmart. Jeptha can be seen wearing a red bandana around his waist with a gun tucked into his belt and money coming out of his pocket.
In front of Lee Ann is a basket full of black and white baby dolls and sign that read, You wait on pay day, I be waiting for da first of da month!
The photo was sent to KLFY by a viewer who called it a display of classism and racism. But not everyone thinks it should be taken so seriously.
Penny Fontenot lives in Iota and says sometimes a costume is just that: a costume. If theyre teaching your children right from wrong in the schools, what does a costume have to do with it?
We showed the photo to several other folks in Acadia Parish. They believe the costume choice crossed the line.
Wow, okay. So what is she trying to depict? Somebody whos on welfare? If that is what she was trying to depict thats even worse. Alan Honersucker told KLFYs Dalfred Jones.
Nathan Kresge, who also live in Iota said, To make fun of people that just cant afford a better way of life, to make fun of them? Thats just ridiculous!
Fontenot believes it just looks like a couple of people having some halloween fun, Its no big deal, its a costume, So, let them enjoy themselves while they still can.
Ellan Baggett, the Executive Director of Operations with the Acadia Parish School Board, says it was a private party, not school related.
Bagget also said the school board has taken appropriate action, although she could not tell us what those actions were.
We made several calls to both Crowley High and Iota Middle for a comment from Lee Ann and Jeptha Wall. They have not returned our messages.
Call the waaaahmbulance. It’s a costume and they are making fun of people who shop at Walmart. Who cares?
I do have a problem with the PoWM site, however. A lot of the pictures are of people who are obviously handicapped or ill or both. Those are not funny.
They are at least 40 pounds underweight to credibly play the role.
Trashing Walmart is a long-running, union strategy.
IIRC in Michigan a few years back, as a result of a lawsuit, the unions were shown to astroturf a village board zoning vote on a new Walmart, part of it was Walmart people photos.
As with so many things that the unions and fellow running dogs cannot possess, they attempt to destroy.
Always fun to drop the Walmart name around the lib/union types.
Like an explosive litmus test.
That is spot on and why more prefer Target IMO.
Hateful and racist to the core. Typical progressive/liberals.
It’s not trashing Walmart though. It’s trashing people who go out in public dressed in ways that would even make hobos feel shame.
Where does it say this has to do with blacks? The people of Wal-Mart meme isnt a racial thing.
Good point.
Do a Google Search for "People of WalMart" and see if you still feel that way.
+1 for me too.
If they didn’t do it at school, seriously, why do people care
The latest "person of Walmart" was arrested at a Walmart for trying on tampons in the Feminine Products aisle. Attention Walmart associates, Cleanup on Aisle 6!
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