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Wal-Mart Announcement Tells 'All Blacks' to Leave

Company apologizes for 'appalling' incident

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 18, 2010 1:48 AM CDT | Updated Mar 18, 2010 5:55 AM CDT

(Newser) – A New Jersey Wal-Mart is checking security footage to find out who used the PA system to order "all black people" to leave the Washington Township store. Over a dozen black customers were in the store when a male voice said: "Attention Wal-Mart customers, all black people must leave the store now." Police are treating the incident as a bias crime.

A Wal-Mart spokesman said the company is "appalled" by the incident. "Some of our customers are upset at us, and I understand why" he told CNN. It's unclear whether the racist prankster was one of the store's 700 full and part-time employees, as some of the branch's in-store telephones can be accessed by customers, police said.

A worker gathers shopping carts near a Wal-Mart store Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in Washington Township, N.J.
A worker gathers shopping carts near a Wal-Mart store Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in Washington Township, N.J.   (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Once I heard that, it was almost like a hush over the whole store momentarily because no one had believed what had taken place. - Wal-Mart customer Sheila Ellington

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devoraahpinckney
Mar 19, 2010 11:14 AM CDT
Outoforder345, we did need my post. The funny thing is it is always people like yourself, that says, we don't need something when the truth is being told. If you understood what I had written, then you also would have notice , the point I was making was not against Wal- Mart( which is nothing more than an building) So. why would I be upset with a name and a building, it wasn't the name or building that made that person , say such a mean thing. Again, you would say, that wasn't needed, why? you might agree with what was said.
Fred Sakitey
Mar 19, 2010 8:28 AM CDT
silly prank
laugh it off and have a nice day
mrgrouch
Mar 19, 2010 1:37 AM CDT
THIS WAS JUST SOME STUPID PRANK (IT COULD EVEN HAVE EVEN BEEN SOME BLACK GUY PLAYING AROUND.) TO BLAME WALMART IS REALLY DUMB. BLAME NEWSER FOR BLOWING UP THIS RACIST CRAP. PROBABLY AT LEAST 90% OF BLACKS VOTED FOR OBAMA, IF 90% OF WHITES HAD VOTED FOR McCAIN, NOW THAT WOULD HAVE BE RACIST - RIGHT?
WALMART IS YOU FRIEND & THE USA IS A GREAT COUNTRY. DON' LET THE LEFT-LOVING PINKO MEDIA BRAINWASH YOU INTO THINKING OTHERWISE.

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