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Minimum-Wage-Raising, Mysterious-Store-Shutting Wal-Mart Removes All Confederate Flag Merchandise From Stores
In the latest populist act of America's largest retailer, minimum-wage-raising, mysterious store-closing Wal-Mart has decided to remove all Confederate Flag merchandise from its stores. Apparently it will continue to stock handguns, rifles, crossbows, ammunition, and other land-of-the-free-to-choose merchandise.
Walmart, the country's largest retailer, will remove all Confederate flag merchandise from its stores, the company told CNN Monday.
The announcement is the latest indication that the flag, a symbol of the slave-holding South, has become toxic in the aftermath of a shooting last week at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. Gov. Nikki Haley announced in a Monday afternoon news conference that she supports removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds.
Walmart.com currently carries the Confederate flag as well as attire featuring the flag's design, such as T-shirts and belt buckles.
"We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer. We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the confederate flag from our assortment -- whether in our stores or on our web site," said Walmart spokesman Brian Nick. "We have a process in place to help lead us to the right decisions when it comes to the merchandise we sell. Still, at times, items make their way into our assortment improperly -- this is one of those instances."
Walmart's statement came in response to a CNN inquiry Monday. In addition to Walmart, CNN asked Amazon and eBay whether they would remove Confederate flag merchandise from their sites. Neither company responded to repeated requests for comment.
The long-running debate over displaying the Confederate flag on government buildings took a swift turn after last week's massacre in Charleston, which left nine African-Americans dead in their church. The shooter, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, has confessed to the murders and has said he wanted to instigate a "race war."
One widely circulated photo of the shooter holding a gun and a Confederate flag has stirred intense outrage. Critics of the flag quickly called on South Carolina to take down what is widely viewed as a symbol of racism.
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One quick question... what happens if the next gunman/terrorist/shooter/nutjob is carrying an American Flag?
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So, if WalMart bans the sale of ISIS flags peace will reign over the Middle East? Fuck walmart.
Ban the sale of diapers and kids won't shit their pants. Really.
Hahaha!
My history of shopping at Walmart has also been eliminated.
Winn-Dixie?
It's going to take more than Walmart and 9 dead folks to kill a culture and an ideal than was right all along.
The South was right!
Using the same logic, Wal-Mart should ban the Stars and Stripes also.
Wal Mart doing the shimmy, trying to stay in the politically correct spotlight and keep from discovered as totally irrelevant in this new age of online shopping. Duh
another mass killing in a "gun free" place. if there had been even one citizen with a legally concealed weapon he could have shot the perp before a slaughter occured.
The stars and bars came about because the South would not accept blind orders from northern industrists I.E. being told what their agriculture goods were worth , having to pay tariffs and taxes and much more. It was ALL based on money and greed , slavery was and is just the excuse being used. If one were to use more than 2 brain cells togther and do a factual research one would be surprised.
Amazon.com and EBay have banned all Confederate flags.
Fellow makes them in Nevada said he sells 5 a month yesterday he sold 200!
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced .gov will “fast track” $29 million to victim families of the June 17 shooting at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston South Carolina, Reuters reports. This amounts to over $3.2 million per family.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3131972/U-S-fast-track-...
But these ignominies and dangers were as nothing compared with the peril of white women, many bereft by the war of male protection, who lived alone in the outlying districts and on lonely roads. It was the large number of outrages on women and the ever-present fear for the safety of their wives and daughters that drove Southern men to cold and trembling fury and caused the Ku Klux Klan to spring up overnight. And it was against this nocturnal organization that the newspapers of the North cried out most loudly, never realizing the tragic necessity that brought it into being. The North wanted every member of the Ku Klux hunted down and hanged, because they had dared take the punishment of crime into their own hands at a time when the ordinary processes of law and order had been overthrown by the invaders.
Gone with the Wind (1936) CHAPTER XXXVII Margaret MITCHELL