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.
Thinking of all the jobs I’ve had over years.
Not one of them would have kept me on if I insulted a customer or refused to follow orders from my boss.
And now, for the rest of the story.
That Walmart store on Willow Lane in Mcdonnough opened a little more than 20 years ago. At the time, Henry County Ga was very conservative and voted strongly Republican.
A little more than 6 years ago, Henry county became a predominately Democrat voting county. The demographics of the area, and that store in particular, have changed dramatically.
That store was once one of the cleanest, best kept retail establishments in the area. Now it looks like a Kmart fixing to close. Purse snatchings are regular there, as well as drug sales in the parking lot. The employees are aloof on a good day, and hostile the rest of the time. The manager likely got his position via affirmative action.
This latest news about their BLM support is troubling, but far from surprising. This is exactly what happens to a conservative community taken over by liberals.
Note: That police officer’s service to the community predates Walmart’s presence in the County, and he likely responded many times to that store when they called 911 for help.
Thin Blue Line:
Cop flag.
Odd design.
Never seen it before. In fact, what is a cop flag?
Fire them all immediately. The community should boycott Walmart.
they ‘re nor fired because of their color.
I would have insisted that those particular “bakers” prepared my cake. I would have shown up to pick it up with my lawyer who would explain to the manager that the cake was going straight to a lab for analysis’s. If any harmful ingredients were discovered I would sue him,the bakers,the freakin box makers, and Walmart
Bigoted much?
A lot of owners of home-based baking businesses would love to make you a delicious, well-decorated specialty cake. Do an online search.
It’s gotten to be that if I notice that a place’s staff is majority black, I turn around and leave. The odds of a staff member being somebody who wants to “stick it to whitey” is too high.
Shoulda said he was a retiring GAY cop!Let them refuse that!
This flag is 100% made in the USA. Meaning of
the Thin Blue Line Flag: The Blue represents
the officer and the courage they find deep
inside when faced with insurmountable odds.
The Black background was designed as a
constant reminder of our fallen brother and
sister officers.
BOYCOTT ALL WAL MART BAKERIES ALL OVER AMERICA...
TEACH THEM A LESSON...THIS IS AMERICA...
And his favorite color of the rainbow is blue?
Holder’s people asserting their BLM matter politics into private business affairs of their employer.
Outta be a firing but Wally World will cave so as not to have their store picketed.
They actually did the police officer’s daughter a favor. Now they will have to go to a place where they will get a cake that is fit to eat.
If you work for me you practice your social justice crap on your own time or hit the road. The manager of this Walmart is done and needs to be fired along with the three employees who refused to bake the cake.
I feel the same way. But what do you do when it is the Post Office or DMV office that has gone to all minority staff?
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