Wal-Mart and Racial Profiling
Both of these movies well worth watching, are good choices without Wal-mart saying I should watch them. I have to wonder how it was that people took planet of the apes as a sign of racially based profiling when both the Powder Puff Girls and Home Alone were linked with these films also.
I would be more worried about the homey's getting upset at the obvious slander of their manhood by associating them with the Powder Puff Girls then by calling them homo erectus. Lets face it the Neanderthals at Wal-Mart wouldn't understand evolution anymore than human rights if they were given a seminar by both Charles Darwin and Dr. Martin Luther King.
Their mapping had no intentions of offending paying customers because the bottom line at Wal-Mart is, and has always been profit before principle. How the first chance for Wal-Marts highly paid spin doctors to thwart a public backlash from this event, went by without a mightily worded statement is beyond me, but both have an extensive background in politics so maybe inside the government isn't the only place nepotism abounds.
Even though Wal-Mart has a negative brand association someone must be going there as they continue to experience growth at a phenomenal rate. Arizona, last May, became embroiled in a bitter battle over an Advertisement, paid for by Wal-Mart, accusing certain zoning practices as akin to Nazi book burning, this is something tangible to be repulsed by, not by their corporate greed.
When a Corporation as large as Wal-Mart feels they are beyond social reproach for the things they say, then just as with the Administration that presides over the United States at this moment, they have lost touch with the consumers they have pledged to defend.
We should all be happy that privatized armies in America are illegal, otherwise we might be sending our children off to fight a minimum wage war with no health benefits.
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Post a CommentCONTINUED: accent and my origin (White, European) and they were White Locals and will not sell nor provide services to me although talking and making promises like no time, multiple times, until I give up bothering them. Just lazy? The place you call "America" needs to wake up from its medieval racial nightmare.... Cause all the "friendliness" and fake smiles in USA end up on the surface, not deep in your hearts. I planted trees next to a public walkway (on my property) so the people ask how much money I got that I can afford all those trees - i said it is all FREE to you, ENJOY!
Bless that day when I will be able to afford to move back to Europe.
CONTINUED: which has been almost destroyed by the greedy "patriotic" "American" corporations. And then you start all these wars, because fake smiles and politeness aside, you are mean and fake people inside, with low self-esteem, over-confident and greedy.
There's more. LOWE'S in same town does the same - I get a ride around LOWES and the black guys won't find anything I need etc. So I gave up asking for help in THAT LOWE'S. And so on, other stores too. Once I enter a black-owned business in that town, they seem to be shocked to see me there. And i try to give thgem business, no profiling from my side, I like their seemingly genuine friendliness.
I lived in USA for almost 15 years and I lived in some Third World countries and I had better life living in Third World that here and was treated there much much better.
Yes, I know, I can always go "back" there.
Also, I will not mention all the businesses who discriminate on my accen
I'm getting racially profiled at a Walmart where I live. Hundreds of times (I am a patient person) the black couple or a black female etc. was greeted by a black greeting lady while she turned away and did not greet me (I'm a white male) when I entered her space and all of a sudden a black couple got greeted by her once I passed - saw it dozens of times over 5 years that I lived here. Couple weeks ago I called WALMART HQ to complain. Then went to Walmart again - same thing, black guy got greeted, me not, then she greeted two black females, who entered behind me. Sometimes they would very VAGUELY greet me, but would greet the blacks with her heart and smile and even treat them as friends. I am from Europe, I do not discriminate, I never owned slaves, am not a racist mind, nor I am from a slave-owning country. I find this kind of racsm ridiculous from any race and thois is why USAA is way behind the rest of the world as a Fourth World country, let the economy alone, which has bee