Wal-Mart probing racist store announcement

[liberal N proud]

‘All black people leave the store now,’ public-address system said Sunday

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials are reviewing security tapes to try to determine who used a southern New Jersey store's public-address system to tell "all black people" to leave.

On Sunday evening at the Washington Township store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."

Witnesses told the Courier-Post newspaper that customers and store employees looked stunned. Management later apologized.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35910010/

As I understand it, Wal-Mart PA system is accessed by code, you have to know the code.

[LiberalFighter]

1. It was accessed from Bentonville AR

[malaise]

2. WTF???

Is this 2010 post-racial America?

[Lilyeye]

9. Nope and it never was lol.

[malaise]

11. I should have included the

sarcasm thingy :D

[Lilyeye]

14. No, I knew you were being sarcastic. I promise lol.

I was mostly being snarky towards those who say it is. But I could tell you were being sarcastic that's why I LOL at the end of my comment.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Probably somebody shopping for their tea bags, Sarah Palin

books and adult diapers.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. We all noe what the code "All black people leave the store now" means.

[liberal N proud]

8. Interesting enough, Wal-Mart does have a Code Black

It is a Tornado Warning

[Heidi]

5. Kicking and recommending.

Because race-based discrimination/Ostracization just doesn't happen in our country anymore, dontcha know. :sarcasm:

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Disgruntled employee or ex-employee?

As it said, it requires a code, and if it's like many places, it's not changed nearly often enough to afford any degree of security. Also, it's possible that someone out to create a racial incident or who has a grudge against WallyWorld could possibly observe an employee and obtain the code; it's not like most employees are so security-conscious that they'd shield the keypad from prying eyes while entering the code, after all. In any event, someone was out to create trouble that could have led to violence. I hope the creep is caught and punished.

[slampoet]

10. The code is probably set to the default code for All such systems.

Reprogramming phone codes is a very costly affair. it might not be hard to do but the installers of those systems like to keep a lid on that knowledge.

The code might well be the same for all walmarts and for a lot of other stores also.

[Blue_Tires]

7. probably a punk teen having a sick joke

In my younger and dumber days i could have easily gone on the PA and told a group of people to leave...did someone leave the mic on?

[jberryhill]

12. Security tapes? Just wait for the YouTube video

It boggles the mind what teenagers videotape themselves doing.

[Soylent Brice]

13. i posted a DUPE of this. i looked but didn't see yours.

gave you a K&R

:blush: