Wal-Mart customers asked to leave due to being black

Hard to tell what’s more surprising in this story, that someone asked all black people to leave a New Jersey-area Wal-Mart or if it’s more surprising that there were black people in Wal-Mart at all in the first place. Perhaps both. But either way, a Wal-Mart store had a man, over intercom, ask all black people to leave the store. People were not pleased.

Black shoppers in a Wal-Mart in New Jersey, were asked a favor from a male voice on an intercom Sunday night.

“Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now,” a male voice calmly announced to the entire store.

Officials of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are reviewing security tapes trying to determine who used the southern New Jersey store’s public-address system to make this ridiculous announcement.

Company spokeswoman Ashley Hardie says the incident was “unacceptable.” The retailer is looking to prevent other asinine comments from happening in the future.

My guess? It had to be that smiley face mascot jerk. He’s already shown he has no regard for Wal-Mart’s business, lowering prices to levels so cheap that you’d be insane not to buy. Plus he pretty clearly seems to hate black people. See how he tips his cap to the older white women but simply ignores the black people in this commercial? All I’m saying is that I wouldn’t be shocked if Wal-Mart had a few burning cross specials under the bouncing smiley face guy’s stewardship.

“Attention Wal-Mart Customers: All Black People Leave the Store Now” [CBS News]

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