It's sad to say, but I'm not at all surprised by this incident, but I AM surprised that it occurred in Jersey. Just the other day, the Sheriff followed me and my acquaintances out of iHop accusing us of not paying, when he CLEARLY saw me break out that $20 bill...hell, I even gave that bitch a tip that she didn't deserve. All this to say, we've come a long way, but we're not there yet. "Keep your eye on the prize."
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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Washington Township is mad racist!I heard about them ! Its crazy how i am from a part of jersey thats nothing but cultured so many diff people and then its like the twilight zone once u go south of where im from! That shit is ridiculous! Its just so ignorant!
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