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Wal-Mart Agrees to Stop Selling Controversial Black Lives Matter Shirt
10News ^ | 12/21

Posted on 12/21/2016 6:06:45 PM PST by nickcarraway

Wal-Mart has agreed to stop selling T-shirts on its website that bear the slogan “Bulletproof Black Lives Matter.” However, the store says it will continue to sell “Black Lives Matter” merchandise that does not contain the word “bulletproof.”

According to the Washington Post, the decision was prompted by complaints from Fraternal Order of Police president Chuck Canterbury. On Tuesday, Canterbury wrote to Wal-Mart CEO C. Douglas McMillon, saying that the merchandise was an attempt to profit off racial divisions.

“Commercializing our differences will not help our local police and communities to build greater respect for one another. Turning a buck on strained relationships will not contribute to the healing process,” Canterbury wrote.

CNN reports that the merchandise was not actually being sold by Wal-Mart, but by a third-party vendor, Old Glory Merchandise, on the store’s website. Old Glory owner Glenn Morell told CNN that he had decided to remove the “Bulletproof Black Lives Matter.” T-shirt from his store.

Old Glory Merchandise also offers shirts that contain the slogan “All Lives Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter,” and other pro-police merchandise along with the “Black Lives Matter” shirts.

This is the second time in as many years that the retailer has agreed to stop selling controversial, racially-charged merchandise. In June 2015, Wal-Mart agreed to stop selling merchandise that contained images of the Confederate flag.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blm; doublestandard; walmart

1 posted on 12/21/2016 6:06:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Sam Walton doing 360s in his grave.


2 posted on 12/21/2016 6:09:26 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: nickcarraway

Whoever agreed to buy that in the first place needs to be

FIRED


3 posted on 12/21/2016 6:09:37 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: nickcarraway

Dang! and I didn’t get mine! I wanted to wear it to our family reunion.


4 posted on 12/21/2016 6:10:45 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: nickcarraway

Everyone is seeing the writing on the wall.

Under a Trump administration, this BS is not going to be tolerated.


5 posted on 12/21/2016 6:11:21 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: nickcarraway

BLM is a radical arm of the democrat-facist party. F ‘em.


6 posted on 12/21/2016 6:12:07 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

[ Old Glory Merchandise also offers shirts that contain the slogan “All Lives Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter,” and other pro-police merchandise along with the “Black Lives Matter” shirts. ]

Now, of course, any other shirt would have been racist and some sort of violation. Insanity not only rules, it is propagated.


7 posted on 12/21/2016 6:13:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: nickcarraway

There was one store (forgot where, Texas I think) that refused to pull those shirts.


8 posted on 12/21/2016 6:14:39 PM PST by SkyDancer (Abition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
BLM is a radical terrorist arm of the democrat-facist party.

there. fixed it. ...and so is the KKK. Go figure.

9 posted on 12/21/2016 6:21:02 PM PST by Eddie01 (Comment removed by moderator...)
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To: SkyDancer

Probably mistaken reporting. These are just sold on the Walmart website in a similar arrangement to Amazon’s Marketplace.


10 posted on 12/21/2016 6:27:02 PM PST by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If black lives truly mattered to these people, they would focus on the thousands of black lives snuffed out by gang-bangers in our major cities, and not the handful of black lives lost by confrontations with the police (which are in most cases justified). But they don't, so they are a fraud.
11 posted on 12/21/2016 6:28:01 PM PST by fhayek
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To: nickcarraway

For what it’s worth, Old Glory Merchandise stocks a huge variety of t-shirts and other clothing. They sell pro-Trump stuff along with BLM stuff.


12 posted on 12/21/2016 6:29:51 PM PST by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: nickcarraway

Mighty white of ‘em. . . . oops


13 posted on 12/21/2016 6:32:15 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: BipolarBob

White Dollars Matter


14 posted on 12/21/2016 7:01:27 PM PST by pke
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To: fhayek
Black lives don't matter to the radical left. Votes and power matter.
15 posted on 12/21/2016 7:04:12 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: nickcarraway

Not really.


16 posted on 12/21/2016 7:09:42 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: nickcarraway

What we are a witnessing is the left mainstreaming a hate group/domestic terrorist organization.


17 posted on 12/21/2016 7:27:41 PM PST by Cubs Fan (Trump and Brexit 2016--The year the good guys won. Remember it.)
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To: SkyDancer

South Dallas or Houston, it has got to be.


18 posted on 12/21/2016 8:05:49 PM PST by txnativegop (Socialism -- an evil created by ignorant a-holes!)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not going to bother doing the search right now but at the time Wal-Mart banned confederate flags, they were selling Black Panthers merch and other black separatist items.

They are still selling BLM items, just not THIS shirt.


19 posted on 12/22/2016 12:36:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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>>What we are a witnessing is the left mainstreaming a hate group/domestic terrorist organization.

What do you think "Che" shirts are?

I seem to recall that Wal-Mart even sold Che t-sh!ts but again not going to bother visiting their site tonight.

20 posted on 12/22/2016 12:42:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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