Posted on 09/26/2016 5:58:21 AM PDT by simpson96
Walmart is apologizing for refusing to make a police officer’s retirement cake last week after an employee told the cop’s daughter that her “thin blue line” cake design might be considered racist.
The police officer’s daughter, who has remained anonymous, told radio host Todd Starnes that she went to a Walmart in McDonough, Georgia on Thursday to ask for a cake with the American flag in black and white with a blue stripe added in.
But one of the employees at the bakery balked at the common police officer emblem, telling the woman “the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” she recounted to Starnes. When she asked for a simpler cake, with just one blue line on a chocolate background, the employee said she didn’t “feel comfortable” with that design either.
“I asked her, ‘Is there something wrong with cops?’” the woman recalled, according to Starnes.
The employee again refused to make the cake.
Taylor Wilkes, a Georgia police officer and family friend, originally posted about the cake incident on Facebook early Friday morning, criticizing the store for their “appalling” behavior.
“There is nothing racist about the symbolism behind the "thin blue line," yet people CHOOSE to make EVERYTHING about race,” Wilkes wrote. “I'm so tired of it.”
The police officer’s daughter eventually went to Kroger to have the cake made, according to Wilkes.
After the post went viral, the Walmart manager met with the daughter again to apologize, Wilkes wrote Saturday. The manager offered a gift card, additional items for the party and to make the cake that the daughter had requested.
But Wilkes said the gesture appeared to be a response to public pressure rather than true atonement.(snip)
“So, although the mistake was ‘made right,’ I will still not be shopping at Walmart due to the ‘quality’ of employees they hire,”
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Come on, someone important needs to lose their job over this.
Will a judge order Wal-Mart to pay $130,000 to the cop’s daughter?
Why haven't the employees been fired?
Why does the manager still have his job?
The “thin blue line” isn’t racist.
It’s seditious.
There’s a big difference. The latter is a thousand times worse.
Indeed - hopefully most whites are getting their fill.
> Come on, someone important needs to lose their job over this.
Why?
Why haven’t the employees been fired?
That would be racist
Was the employee terminated? That’s what matters to me.
I confess that Wally world and Kroger are about the only games in town here, but we do Kroger as much as possible.
My wife actually went to school with the Kroger kids in the Chicago area back in the 60’s before they got “really” big.
She sure can tell some stories about the ‘blacks acting out” back in those days. It was quite similar to today.
Please explain.
The over used term “racist”has lost all meaning because of crap like this. They are just too stupid to realize it.
People need to start losing their jobs for failing to do them. This fake taking a stand, look at me, look at me bull$hit is starting to get real old...Fire ‘me
And that goes for disrespectful pro football players and soldiers too who should be held to a higher standard
I won’t hold it against Walmart as they tried to make it right.
Around here stores can’t get people to even apply for minimum wage jobs so we keep crappy employees on simply because you need a body there. It’s not that there aren’t enough unemployed low skilled people around, they just don’t want to work.
Only if she pretended to be a gay cop.
Went to Kroger?
The business that told gun control groups to pound sand?
Good move!
“The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.” -Marion Barry
A racist sees racism everywhere they look.
When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail to you.
the employee said she didn’t “feel comfortable” with that design
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She should have pulled her over the counter by her collar and bitch slapped that slut.
Good thing the woman went to Kroger for the cake. I don't even want to imagine what the baker at Walmart may have done to that cake, after being "forced" to make it.
It is amazing that baker still has a job. Must be nice to get to dictate to your boss what you will and won't do, and collect a paycheck.
I thought liberals said you have to make any cake no matter whether you agree with the decorating message or not???
Religious people cannot object, but everyone else in the world can object.
Equal for me, but not for thee.
I do miss Zummo's Boudain.
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