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Walmart Workers Refuse to Make Cop’s Retirement Cake
Todd Starnes ^ | 9/25/2016

Posted on 09/25/2016 3:43:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

Three Walmart workers in McDonough, Georgia refused to decorate a “thin blue line” cake for a police officer’s retirement party because they said it was racist.

A number of my Georgia readers alerted me to the story and on Saturday night I spoke directly with the police officer’s daughter. She asked that I not divulge her name and I’ve agreed to honor her request.

“I was so shocked,” she told me. “I didn’t know what to do or say or anything. I was trying not to lose my temper or make a scene.”

“The baker told me the blue line cake was racist”

— Police Officer's Daughter

For the record, Walmart has confessed that most of her allegations are true. I’ll have more on that a bit later in this column.

The police officer’s daughter went to the Walmart on Willow Drive on Sept. 22 to order a flag for her father’s retirement party. He was leaving the force after 25-years on the job.

She showed the bakers a photograph of the police officer’s flag - the black and white version of Old Glory with a blue line.

“One of the bakers told me the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” the police officer’s daughter told me.

As an alternative, she suggested a chocolate-frosted cake with a horizontal, frosted blue line.

But that design was also rejected by Walmart’s cake decorator.

“She said, ‘I don’t feel comfortable doing this,’” the cop’s daughter told me. “I asked her, ‘Is there something wrong with cops?’”

After being rejected for a third time, the 21-year-old told the bakers, “I’ll find another bakery, thank you.”

She was much more polite than I would’ve been, folks.

“I was disappointed,” she told me. “I go to Walmart all the time — at least once a week spend hundreds of dollars. I just wanted to make my dad a cake to show how much i appreciated him.”

A friend of the family posted an item about the incident on Facebook and it wasn’t long before the Walmart store manager called the police officer’s wife and daughter — and apologized.

“He said he was so sorry,” the daughter told me. “He offered to make the cake free of charge and he gave me a $50 gift card.”

A Walmart corporate spokesperson confirmed most of the story.

“Our goal is to always take care of customers,” the spokesperson told me. “But, sometimes we misstep.We’re glad we were able to connect with the family to apologize and make this right.”

Walmart did not say if one of their associates called the cake racist.

“I can confirm an associate made a mistake that has since been corrected for the customer,” the spokesperson told me.

So how did Walmart right their wrong? The answer to that question is going to curdle your Fruit Loops, folks.

The manager offered to make and decorate a new cake. But there was just one problem — the cake decorators refused to comply.

“So the manager told me that he would decorate it — but it looked terrible,” the police officer’s daughter said. “It doesn’t look professional.”

I’ve attached photographs of Walmart’s handiwork — it’s absolutely embarrassing and unacceptable.

“I work in retail,” the officer’s daughter told me. “If I didn’t want to deal with a customer — and said ‘No’ — I would get fired.”

Unfortunately, her father’s retirement party is Sunday night - so there’s no time to go elsewhere.

“It irritates me that in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Walmart was looted and the cops were protecting them,” she said. “And you can’t make a cake for the people who are protecting you?”

Walmart needs to make this right and they can start by delivering a professionally decorated cake to the police officer’s family.

The three cake decorators need to be told: either decorate the cake or be fired.

Just because Walmart is the home of low prices, doesn’t mean they have to hire a bunch of low class, anti-cop bigots.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bakery; georgia; leo; retai; walmart
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To: Altura Ct.

she needs to litigate and harrass and torment and destroy the lives of the “bakers” who did this. That is what the left would do and even though it’s wrong we have to start to give them bake their won sh*t in spades.

I’m sure this woman has a life, but she must pretend to be a leftie, she must file complaints against these individuals as well as walmart corporate in all available venues, including federal.

I mean it and I hope she got it all on tape. And I hope she wins millions and I hope the “bakers” end up living in card board boxes.


101 posted on 09/25/2016 6:04:29 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Altura Ct.

I wouldn’t want to eat that cake.

They probably wizzed in the batter.


102 posted on 09/25/2016 6:05:28 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Time to move somebody to the overnight stocking crew.


103 posted on 09/25/2016 6:08:14 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Jumper

I live in Hiuston TX, but the only Walmart I go to is in Fredericksburg.


104 posted on 09/25/2016 6:19:53 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Altura Ct.

Disgusting!


105 posted on 09/25/2016 6:20:06 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Tell her I feel her pain, my school too.


106 posted on 09/25/2016 6:23:43 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: deport

Hmmmm.......


107 posted on 09/25/2016 6:24:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: tflabo

I would think so too. Best to not give them opportunity for more sabotage.

The bakers are free to refuse the same as employees in a Christian bakery should be free to refuse to bake a cake for a gay “wedding” or a satanic cult meeting. It is the business owner’s decision to either stand by them or fire them. The company will either lose business or gain it depending on how popular their decision is, but it’s theirs to make.

Based on Walmart’s patriotic reputation, they need to show these clowns the door or risk some backlash.


108 posted on 09/25/2016 6:30:48 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: BenLurkin

Affirmative Action and quotas and all similar things are contrary to the equality that MLK preached.

Race relations are worse because of government “solutions”.


109 posted on 09/25/2016 6:33:07 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: COBOL2Java

She stated that she wanted to make a cake for her dad. It’s in the article.

They didn’t stop her from “making a cake for her dad”. They stopped her from buying a cake for her dad, they had no “right” to do that, they are employees and have no authority to make those kind of decisions.

“Well, aren’t you precious.”

As a matter of fact, yes I am and could bake the cake and decorate it to her specs. The W-M decorators should be fired. I’m sure they are racist negroes.


110 posted on 09/25/2016 6:36:56 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Jumper

Go to bulkammo.com to get your ammo...


111 posted on 09/25/2016 6:46:35 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: justlurking

IDK. I do think a lawsuit is order. Time to turn the lefts tactics against them.

Of course, I’m sure the local cops will be sure traffic laws are enforced around that area.


112 posted on 09/25/2016 6:54:00 PM PDT by phoneman08
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To: Jane Long

Look at what’s been going on in this nation. Businesses have been driven under, people’s lives have been ruined, all for the sake of perceived discrimination. I do not agree with it, but it is the reality of our times.


113 posted on 09/25/2016 7:59:04 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
at the school where my sister teaches, all the power is now with the little darlings. They can do no wrong. Teachers can do no right.

Which is why there is a 35% drop in enrollment in education classes and a teacher shortage across the country in its early stages. It will most likely get worse Teachers are treated like garbage and have their students as their bosses. That's like putting a loaded pistol in the hands of a 5 year old.

114 posted on 09/25/2016 8:27:11 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

You got it. Low pay, long hours (for the good, dedicated teacher) and the inmates running the asylum. It is amazing a) anybody goes into teaching or b) stays longer than 3 years.


115 posted on 09/25/2016 9:50:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: tflabo
They need to find another bakery. Who knows what the ingrates might add as a gift to the cake.

Exactly. I would not feel comfortable eating a cake some low life slug refused to bake/decorate twice.

116 posted on 09/26/2016 2:37:03 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Altura Ct.

If it happened in the Walmart I go to, the decorators would be looking for employment....the workers regularly use subversive language like “Merry Christmas”, “God Bless”, Have a blessed day”, etc...


117 posted on 09/26/2016 4:32:51 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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