[Vision2020] "All Black People" Asked to Leave S. Jersey Wal-Mart

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of NBC-Philadelphia at:

http://tinyurl.com/Asked-to-Leave-WalMart

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"All Black People" Asked to Leave S. Jersey Wal-Mart
Store is looking at security video to figure out who made the announcement

Wal-Mart officials are looking at security tapes after an announcement was
made for "all black people'' to leave a store in South Jersey.

A man used the public-address system at the Route 42 store in Washington
Township Sunday night and calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers:
All black people leave the store now.''

Patricia Covington and Shelia Ellington were inside the store when it
happened and told the Courier Post that customers and store employees
looked stunned when they heard it.

"In 2010, I want to know why such statements are being made because it
flies in the face of what we teach them [our kids] at home, and that's
tolerance for people," said Ellington.

Ellington and other customers let store management and police know they
were upset.

They asked the store to use the same announcement system to apologize to
customers that night, which it did.

Wal-Mart management called the incident "unacceptable," and said it's
working to make sure nothing like this happens at any other stores.

Washington Township police and the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office
are investigating the incident as a possible bias crime.

"I can't believe it in this day and age," Covington told the paper.
"Wal-Mart needs to be more responsible."

Covington and Elllington are boycotting the store.

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The South Jersey Wal-Mart

http://tinyurl.com/South-Jersey-WalMart

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

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