At Last: Andrew Young Admits He Is a Demagogue

[Zomby Woof]

But I won't hold out any hope that he admits he is a sell-out.

Andrew Young stepped down from his cushy Wal-Mart job, and in the process revealed what many of us who have followed him for years have known: He is the worst kind of sell-out and snake-oil peddler. I was just waiting for him to put his foot in his mouth. If he thinks Wal-Mart will do black communities any good, he deserves to choke on his moronic comments. He obviously ignored the lesson of Inglewood rejecting his plans on making inroads in L.A. Read on:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-young18aug18,1,1930699.story

Young to Quit Wal-Mart Group After Racial Remarks
By Abigail Goldman, Times Staff Writer
August 18, 2006

Andrew Young, the civil rights leader and former U.N. ambassador, said Thursday that he would resign as head of a Wal-Mart advocacy group, acknowledging "demagogic" remarks about Jewish, Asian and Arab business owners.

Young, 74, has been lobbying minority groups and civic leaders to accept Wal-Mart stores in their neighborhoods, a relationship that has drawn criticism from other African American leaders. In an interview published in Thursday's Los Angeles Sentinel, he was asked about the retailer's role in displacing mom-and-pop stores.

"Well, I think they should; they ran the 'mom-and-pop' stores out of my neighborhood," he told the Sentinel, the oldest and largest black-owned weekly newspaper in the West.

"But you see those are the people who have been overcharging us — selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs, very few black people own these stores."