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It was a quote uttered by a Black person who engaged in a 50-person Black Pack Attack on a white family in Akron, Ohio around July 4th in 2009 that motivates me on a daily basis (Ohio.com, July 7, 2009):
So this is why stores once kept Black people out... private property isn't private anymore
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.
If you've followed this blog since then, you should be acutely aware that Eric "My People" Holder is doing everything possible to dismantle legal protections for white people, while creating new laws (just think of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin situation) that protect every classification of 'his people' -- particularly the Black criminal element.
Because the Mahogany Mob (white people engage in mirthful Flash Mobs; Black people engage in Mahogany Mobs intent on scoring free loot, plundering stores, and attacking white and Asian people) menace has yet to be combated - Philadelphia, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, and other cities all have done little to stop the threat except pass "curfew" laws - we now see this happen at a Jacksonville Wal-Mart, which you won't see posted over at People of Wal-Mart (Flashmob causes havoc at Walmart, NBC Jacksonville, July 16, 2012):
Flash mobs are known across the United Stats as a group of people, dancing, having fun and enjoying themselves while entertaining others.
However, the Wal-Mart off Lem Turner Road in Jacksonville fell victim to a flash robbery when more than 300 people entered the store and destroyed the security system as well as some merchandise.
According to the police report, the group destroyed an electronic anti-shop lifting security scanner that costs about $1,500. The police report also stated the massive crowd could have arrived at the store after a party that was broken up on Sampson Road.
YouTube video showed the teens throwing food and merchandise around the store. Channel 4's Crime Analyst Ken Jefferson said any sort of crime where there's hundreds of people involved is a dangerous situation.
"You've got a large number of people going and coming at the same time they are throwing produce," said Jefferson. "They are stealing items, they are all over the store. You can imagine how fearful the customers were who were in there at that particular time."
Police did not make any arrests after the mob of people took over the store. If caught, these teens could face criminal charges.
No arrests. Mass theft from a Black Pack Attack on a Wal-Mart in Jacksonville, and absolutely no consequences for the actions of hundreds of Black teens. The NBC affiliate even tries to downplay the incident by comparing the Mahogany Mob attack to a normal Flash Mob -- the only difference is that Black people get enjoyment out of stealing and assaulting people in Mahogany Mobs, an endorphin rush that rivals the joy white people garner from singing and dancing in Flash Mobs around Christmas and other holidays.
If that were not true, then why are they happening with increasing regularity across the nation? Why do these events ALL have one major correlation, despite the thousands of miles that separate the Mahogany Mobs attacks (Black people)?
"This is a Black world."
That quote is totally, 100 percent accurate. Until white people have the audacity to say, "No, it's not," then the fate of every major city is that of Detroit; violence will continue to spread in Chicago; the entire metro Atlanta area will plunge into darkness and become one big Clayton County; and Amazon.com will eventually become the go-to place for white shoppers, putting Wal-Mart and other big box stores out of business, because they no longer wish to shop when the threat of a 300-deep Black Pack Attack is always possible.
Taking back America doesn't mean restoring "constitutionally liberty" -- it means throwing off the shackles of Black-Run America (BRA).
Conspiracy theory? Yes, this is a still photo from the $2 Waffle Maker brawl at Wal-Mart
There are days where you realize how far removed from normal society you have become and it is these precious moments that you understand why being part of the ranks of Those Who Can See helps keep you safe. More importantly, sane, because the day will come when this era comes to a crashing halt.
Black Friday has once again passed into the history books (though economists will continue to look at the sales data from the day after Thanksgiving to determine if consumer spending was flat), but not before providing another glimpse into life at the end of history.
Nothing though can prepare one to truly understand the hilarity of Black Friday like a good, old fashioned Royal Rumble over a $2 waffle maker at, you guessed it, Wal-Mart.
So how do you save America? Banish anyone from this land who dared shop on Black Friday from polite society -- we hear Haiti is nice this time of year -- and let all of those who engaged in the Hunger Games (if you haven't read this book, do so immediately as SBPDL will be providing an essay soon on this important trilogy) assault on the $2 waffle maker at Wal-Mart use their newly procured device to cook for them.
Last thought: why hasn't some enterprising Black politician complained on MSNBC that using the term "Black Friday" somehow demeans Black people? Seems like an easy way to garner easy publicity... wage war on using the color "Black" as a synonym for negativity, like Black ice, Black holes, and Black Friday.
So next year, if a Black politician begins a crusade to turn "Black Friday" into "Race Not Provided" Friday, realize the AP got to them first.
Wal-Mart attempted a real Tuskegee Experiment with unsurprising results
If Detroit can claim that vehicles made there are “imported” to the United States, then Wal-mart’s bid to open stores in metropolitan areas that have similar demographics to the Motor City can only be construed as attempts to offer their services to a developing (nation) marketplace.
Wal-mart is about to open a store in Washington D.C., an area seemingly ill-equipped for a store that operates under strict guidelines of maintaining a high profit margin. Thievery – either organized or by a desperate individual – cuts deep into a retailers ability to turn a profit, a problem Wal-Mart has traditionally avoided:
Wal-Mart declined to offer any explanations for the rise in losses but denied it has cut security staff and said employee morale is rising rather than falling.
Although Wal-Mart declined to reveal any details, analysts suspect Wal-Mart -- which for years had a theft loss rate that was half that of its peers -- is getting closer to the industrywide average. Theft is a big problem for all retailers, costing them $41.6 billion last year, according to a joint study released this week by the National Retail Federation and the University of Florida. The study found that the theft rate as a percentage of sales ticked upward slightly to 1.61% of sales in 2006 from 1.60% in 2005.
Whatever the cause, such theft -- which late founder Sam Walton once called one of retailers' top profit killers -- adds one more challenge when Wal-Mart is already struggling with sluggish sales at its established stores due to an overall economic slowdown as well as its own stumbles in its home- and apparel-merchandising strategies.
Eduardo Castro-Wright, president and CEO of Wal-Mart's U.S. store division, briefly acknowledged the theft problem in a mid-May conference call with analysts. He cited shrinkage as well as increased markdowns and higher inventory for dragging down first-quarter profit margins.
"We are concerned about shrinkage and are investigating the cause and are taking steps to correct it," Castro-Wright said. Company officials won't comment on those countermeasures.
To maintain healthy profits, Wal-Mart must continue to have high profit margins. Opening a new store in an area prone to high rates of crime is not conducive to this business model. Is this one reason why the new store in Washington D.C. is becoming such an interesting debate?:
When politicians, agency officials and other establishment types discuss the pros and cons of Wal-Mart opening stores in poor, retail-starved neighborhoods in the District, they often talk about pretty high-minded stuff. Fair pay. Job training. Environmental safeguards…
First, would a new Wal-Mart there really stock the same quality of food and products as its stores do in better-off, suburban communities?
"I'll believe it when I see it," Mya Harris, 24, said skeptically. "Sure, you can put the store here, but what are they going to put inside it?"
Second, and I was amazed when this anxiety was aired in fully half the interviews, residents worry that the store would suffer severely or even fail because of petty theft.
"There'll probably be a lot of shoplifting going on. They'll need a lot of security," Terriea Sutton, 35, said.
Brenda Speaks, a Ward 4 ANC commissioner, actually urged blocking construction of the planned store in her ward at Georgia and Missouri avenues NW partly because of that risk. Addressing a small, anti-Wal-Mart rally at City Hall on Monday, Speaks said young people would get criminal records when they couldn't resist the temptation to steal.
Wal-Mart said District residents needn't be so self-critical. Although security is "always a concern and a focal point for all stores, there is no more concern over these District locations than any other store locations," company spokesman Steven Restivo said.
It's sad that people have such a low opinion of their own community. Happily, with prudent oversight from the city, Wal-Mart's arrival should be a significant step forward for the neighborhood and the District as a whole.
When white flight from major cities began 40-50 years ago, the major stores fled with them. In a bid to seek new profits and enlarge its market share, Wal-Mart is expanding to areas where gentrification is slowly taking place:
Starting with its new big-box store under construction in Chicago, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it will build 50 stores in urban neighborhoods distressed by high unemployment and other social problems in cities around the country.
Lee Scott, the company's chief executive, made the announcement Tuesday at the Austin neighborhood construction site of Chicago's first Wal-Mart store.
He said the new stores planned for inner-city neighborhoods over the next two years would create 15,000 to 20,000 jobs.
"We will be bringing back about 400 jobs in this store," Scott said. He said the Austin store, like some urban stores elsewhere in the country, will have special programs to benefit local businesses, such as help with selling to Wal-Mart.
Local minority and women-owned businesses will be sought out for construction work on the new stores, Scott said. The general contractor for the Austin store is an African-American woman, and minorities and women were among those hired as subcontractors. The store is to open this summer.
Wal-Mart said it has not decided where it would locate the new stores. "We have been approached in the past by Detroit," said John Bisio, spokesman for Wal-Mart. "You could also look at communities in parts of Houston." He said Philadelphia might also be a candidate.
Economists say an increasing number of businesses are recognizing that while residents of some urban neighborhoods may be poor, the density of population makes for substantial buying power.
Critics say small merchants cannot compete with Wal-Mart's prices, and that many of its employees end up on Medicaid because of low incomes and high insurance costs. Until recently, Wal-Mart stores more likely were to be found in rural areas or suburbs than in the heart of major cities. But analysts say the company is intent on locating in densely populated city neighborhoods, even those where household incomes are low and crime is high.
Joseph Beaulieu, stock analyst with Morningstar, said Wal-Mart realizes it must remake its image if it is to be welcomed by cities.
"They have had a hard time working with municipalities," Beaulieu said. "Over the past year and a half, they have shown increasing flexibility. They are going to have to change their reputation."
Wal-Mart’s business model that helped it grow into one of the largest companies in the world was to bypass heavily populated cities filled with crime (and, well, Black people) and instead open stores in suburbs and rural areas heavily populated by white people.
It should be noted that Wal-Mart did participate in a minority outreach program before, opening a store in Tuskegee, Alabama. A heavily Black town on the verge of financial ruin, Tuskegee was home to an infamous experiment that preyed heavily upon its Black population.
Wal-Mart opened a store in Tuskegee back in 1981, and Wal-Mart accountants quickly found that opening stores for the positive, charitable publicity it would generated wasn’t economically viable. Rumors have persisted that losses from theft exceeded store revenues and that this Tuskegee Wal-Mart was closed one day, its inventory surreptitiously removed thanks to the cover of night and an army of trucks, and that the store was boarded up and empty the next day.
These might be apocryphal stories, but one thing is crystal clear: The Tuskegee Experiment failed by Tuskegee's Black citizenry pillaged the store with an intensity rarely seen at Wal-Mart.
The Wal-Mart Tuskegee Experiment was a failure. Opening a store in a heavily minority area (next to a school that has produced 70 percent of all of America’s Black veterinarians) was a financial burden Wal-Mart wasn’t prepared to force stock holders to endure.
Wal-Mart’s hope of opening new stores in untapped markets is to be commended, but even the customer base of the new Washington D.C. store worries about shoplifting and an augmenting of police files. The Tuskegee Experiment was a monumental mistake that few people seem willing to talk about anymore, and one is left to wonder if Wal-Mart learned any lessons.
A company that has pioneered data-mining, revenue management and tracking purchases to predict consumer habits seem bent on disregarding the lessons of the Tuskegee Experiment. One can only wonder these Wal-Mart stores will look like at the end of every month:
Bill Simon is head of Wal-Mart’s American operations. At a conference on September 15 put on by Goldman Sachs, he said that there is a big jump in sales at the beginning of the month, when welfare payments arrive, with an “ever-increasing amount of transactions being paid for with government assistance.”
As he explained: “And you need not go further than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month. And it’s real interesting to watch, about 11 p.m., customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items, baby formula, milk, bread, eggs, and continue to shop and mill about the store until midni
ght, when . . . government electronic benefits cards get activated and then the checkout starts and occurs. And our sales for those first few hours on the first of the month are substantially and significantly higher.
“And if you really think about it, the only reason somebody gets out in the middle of the night and buys baby formula is that they need it, and they’ve been waiting for it. Otherwise, we are open 24 hours—come at 5 a.m., come at 7 a.m., come at 10 a.m. But if you are there at midnight, you are there for a reason.
Will the book section of Wal-Mart stay segregated in these new stores? It’s safe to say that Wal-Mart learned absolutely no lessons from the Tuskegee Experiment and, in fact, buried that mistake deep in corporate red tape.
The lessons extrapolated from this tale should be obvious to all. It should be noted that this story smells of Mall Envy.
Police aren't sure whether Walmart's prices were so good or if there was a shortage of chocolate rabbits.
Whatever the reason, seven women ended up in a brawl in the Easter basket aisle Saturday evening.
Candy eggs, rabbits and Peeps flew through the air in an unlikely Easter exchange.
Property damage, primarily to candy and Easter decorations, totalled nearly $800.
Salisbury Police responded to the Walmart at 323 Arlington St. around 7 p.m. Saturday.
The five officers separated the women into two groups — with each claiming the other group started the fight.
Unable to figure out who initiated the brawl, officers decided to charge all of those involved in the incident with public affray. Those charged, whose ages range from 17 to 24, are Carolyn Elizabeth Chawlk, Carmeisha Shannell Mitchell, Samise Tyshon Mitchell, Kim Rochelle Williams Mashore, Latikgwa Nikia Williams, Tameika Shareece Drye and Tiffany Elaine Chambers.
Now, those behind the algorithms and the analysis of buyer patterns that determine the low prices that Wal-Mart offers (such goods as Black dolls come to mind) aren't to be blamed for the candy aisle brawl that erupted in Salisbury.
Discounted candy from a reputable store such as Wal-Mart puts the reliability of freshness at an exponentially higher rate than the candy that can be obtained from the ever-present Dollar General or Dollar Store that find refuge in abandoned strip malls littering the landscapes of small towns.
No, it is of absolutely no coincidence that Black people decided to engage in a battle royal for the remaining sweet treats that were being sold for steep discounts.
We at Stuff Black People Don't Like have to ask: As the Royal Rumble for economically priced Easter candy waged in the makeshift ring of the Salisbury Wal-Mart by incensed Black patrons hoping to secure belated holiday sugar, did anyone have the temerity to request all Black people to leave the store?
More importantly, were the victors of the brawl-for-all the Cadbury in Salisbury forced to endure the insult of waiting at the back of line before the transaction for the hard fought candy was made?
Victoria Arter was stunned by the loudspeaker announcement.
"Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers," she recalled hearing the calm male voice begin. "Will all the black people please leave the store. Thank you."
Her shock turned to anger, Arter said, when more than five awkward and frightening minutes elapsed before management at the Wal-Mart in Turnersville came on the public address system.
"We waited and waited. Some people just left their carts in disgust and said they couldn't believe it," said Arter, an African American woman who was shopping at the store on Route 42 when the announcement was made shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is cooperating with the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office and Washington Township police, which are investigating the event as a possible racial-intimidation crime. More than 10 African Americans have signed a complaint with police.
"We're just as appalled by this as anyone," said Ashley Hardie, a spokeswoman for the discount-store chain, "and anyone who did this was wrong."
Law enforcement is examining surveillance tapes inside the store. But the P.A. system can be accessed from 25 telephones in the building, and not all are within camera range, said Bernie Weisenfeld, spokesman for the prosecutor.
The 24-hour superstore has about 700 employees, many of them part-time, and some of the store's phones are accessible to the public, Weisenfeld said.
Last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged Sam's Club, which is owned by Wal-Mart, with violating federal law by allowing a work environment hostile to Latino employees. Since the 1990s, the EEOC has filed about 60 additional discrimination actions against Wal-Mart.
"This is despicable," Phil Warner, coordinator of the NAACP's chapters in South Jersey, said of the announcement. "It's 2010, and we're still facing those issues."
Warner said he hoped Wal-Mart would take quick action if the person responsible for the announcement can be identified.
"Whether it was a prank or whether it was serious, the level of insensitivity is apparent and is a reminder there's still a need for people to work toward decency and equality," said James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey NAACP Conference.
Murders, rapes and actual crimes are unworthy of discussion. The very same day the insidious message was played over the PA system at Walmart, a gentleman exercising hospitality by holding open a door was beaten (life-threateningly) by two Black individuals:
A 63-year-old convenience store patron is not expected to survive after being severely beaten outside a San Bernardino convenience store, police said Monday.
They are asking for help identifying two men who attacked Nathan Macon at 6 p.m. Thursday as he stood outside Jimmy's Food at Base Line and Medical Center Drive on the city's Westside.
Macon was holding the door open for the suspects when one made an unknown comment toward him, said San Bernardino police Sgt. Dave Dillon. Words were exchanged and the two men began punching Macon, knocking him to the ground outside the store.
The Associated Press and ABC News have picked up on the horrifying story of people's ear drums being violated with racist demands (in jest), while the news of a hospitable act turned attempted homicide is met with silence.
Harmless messages that would normally supply fodder for late night comics becomes the grounds for initiating a bias crime (what the hell is that?) task force to stamp out evil whenever it may manifest at a Walmart near you...
Stuff Black People Don't Like has found the ultimate story to prove Black Run America's (BRAs) existence to anyone still doubting its reality.
You are advised to stop pulling any pranks that deal with "punking" Black people, for daring to Punk'd them will only turn you up in the growing list of usual suspects for a Bias Offense, an Orwellian term for violating any provision set forth by the Protocols of the Learned Elders of BRA.
Below is an actual story from a NATIONAL media source (ABC NEWS, not The Onion) detailing this horrible crime.
Fortune ranks Wal-Mart as the top corporation in America. We at SBPDL don’t disagree.
Wal-Mart is the true indicator of life in the United States, as the internet sensation Peopleofwalmart.com dares to showcase for the entire world to see the banal reality of prole life in 21st America.
Travel to any city in America and you will find the same cookie-cutter box store that Wal-Mart builds (without worry about the aesthetic value the building will lack) and oddly, almost identical clientele in each store. Lowest common denominator… regression to the mean?
The 1930s classic Freaks is but a short drive away, as Wal-Mart invites you to become “one of us” by merely walking through the automatic doors and breathing the delicate of rampant consumerism in, all while a member of the greatest generation greets you at the door.
Black Friday (the orgiastic celebration of unbridled capitalism where the unloading of goods undesired except at radically discounted prices occurs the day after Thanksgiving) offers one of the finest examples of life in 21st America and how Wal-Mart casually encourages behavior rarely seen in primates.
In 2008, Black people trampled a poor Black greeter in the threshold of Wal-Mart’s bountiful supply of marked down oddities on the aptly named Black Friday:
A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said.
The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde.
When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured.
Worse, Black Friday seems to have come early for a Wal-Mart in New Jersey, as recently word of Black customers shopping leaked out to management in the store and a form of racial profiling was instituted to protect the safety of those shopping peacefully:
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials are reviewing security tapes to try to determine who used a store's public-address system to tell "all black people" to leave.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday at the Washington Township store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."
Witnesses say customers and store employees looked stunned. Management later apologized.
Company spokeswoman Ashley Hardie says the incident was "unacceptable." The retailer is looking to prevent it from happening in the future.
Washington Township police and the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office also are investigating.
Oddly, it is unknown if Black people cooperated with the request overheard on the PA. If further evidence for the reality of Black Run America (BRA) was needed to justify its existence, this story should provide abundant evidence for the hegemony of Black people in America and nullify any idle chatter that such a state isn’t in place.
The media is treating this as a big story. The desire for white people to gather and discuss ideas that many would deem hate facts, yet being denied that Constitutional right because of terroristic threats is cause for media silence.
Black Run America in a nutshell: Wal-Mart patrons of a certain pigmentation being offended at the slightest provocation, and receiving media coverage and a full police investigation, while white people hoping to have an adult conversation about race instead are treated as malcontents and pariahs, getting neither media attention or a police investigation when terrorists threaten bodily harm and shut down a peaceful conference.
Stuff Black People Don’t Like includes being told to leave Wal-Mart, as the harmless prank of commandeering the PA system is treated as cause for martial law and a full-scale police investigation to find the culprit and lock them away lest they perpetuate the harming of the delicate eardrums of frightened Black patrons of Wal-Mart.
"We personally have nothing against Walmart. We, along with most of America, shop at Walmart for nearly everything we need. This site is simply a satirical social commentary of the extraordinary sights found at America’s favorite store. Walmart is Americana baby, Enjoy!"
What exactly are we about to discuss here at SBPDL? Wal-Mart is a much maligned company, and the store receives the type of envy and derision the New York Yankees find themselves constantly encountering. Why? Because Wal-Mart is the biggest company in the world (revenues of $378 billion in 2008):
"A facelift and even lower prices kept the world's largest retailer afloat in a troubled economy.
Staring down the barrel of brutal fourth-quarter retail forecasts, CEO Lee Scott dramatically cut prices on 15,000 items - including popular toys and electronics - by 20% more than usual to lure holiday shoppers. That rocked the industry, pressuring other retailers to squeeze already tight margins.
The tactic worked: Wal-Mart grossed $100 billion, breaking its fourth-quarter sales record, and soundly beat Target in same-store holiday sales for the first time in nearly a decade."
Interestingly, the customer base of Wal-Mart (if one decided the test samples at peopleofwalmart.com are an accurate portrayal of the cross-geographical pool of consumers for its low prices) represents the diversity of the United States perfectly:
"Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will retool its 3,256 U.S. stores over two years to give them a more customized mix of goods and layout for six key groups of customers, including Hispanics, African-Americans and affluent shoppers, the executive in charge of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations said Thursday.
The move is the latest strategy twist for the world’s largest retailer as it struggles to revive growth rates that have fallen behind smaller rivals such as Target Corp. and after the company’s first quarterly drop in profits in a decade.
The approach, called segmentation, follows months of new initiatives from Wal-Mart to make sure each store is better tailored to its locale and to lure more affluent shoppers, who may come to Wal-Mart for groceries and basics but skip the company’s more profitable aisles like apparel and electronics.
Eduardo Castro-Wright, president and chief executive of Wal-Mart U.S., said stores will get a more specific mix of products and layout to appeal to one of the six target groups — based on what market research showed was the best approach for that location.
“Driving customer relevancy will drive growth,” Castro-Wright said in a Webcast of a presentation to financial analysts.
The target groups identified by Wal-Mart’s market researchers are Hispanics, African Americans, “empty-nesters/boomers,” affluent, suburban and rural shoppers, according to Castro-Wright’s slide presentation."
Everyone loves low prices and nearly 100 million Americans enter a Wal-Mart store each week searching for discounted goods and merchandise, all in an environment where the most garish and outlandish individual can shop without fear of persecution or ridicule.
You see, Wal-Mart is the ultimate manifestation of America, where the pursuit of happiness is a virtue and individual liberty to wear any accoutrement in public is encouraged and scorn is heaped upon those who point the prole takeover of the nation.
Newsflash: proles run this country. They are the life-blood of this nation. Visiting peopleofwalmart.com, one is shocked to see the incredible obesity represented within the pages of that website. Is this an anomaly? No. As we stated in passing on seconds, an unbelievable rate of Black people find themselves classified in the morbidly obese category. White people, always wishing to emulate Black people, work diligently to increase the turgid nature of the average American:
"The rates of adult obesity in the United States increased in 23 states during the past year and did not decrease in any state.
And the number of obese and overweight children has now climbed to 30 percent in 30 states, a troubling trend that could signal decades of weight-related health problems such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease as these children become adults."
For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi topped the list as the state with the highest rate of adult obesity, at 32.5 percent, according to the report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009.
Besides Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee have obesity rates above 30 percent. Eight of the 10 states with the highest number of obese adults are in the South. The state with the lowest adult obesity rate is Colorado, at 18.9 percent, according to the report.
Interestingly, this map illustrates where Wal-Mart stores are most frequent and not surprisingly, the south finds itself inundated with Sam Walton's mad creation.
Again, no store more perfectly symbolizes the United States of America than Wal-Mart does and a quick look at the store will crystallize this metaphor for everyone:
Wal-Mart’s dedication to the African-American community is evident throughout our company.
Wal-Mart is a leading employer of minorities in the U.S. and has more than 257,000 African-American associates.
The company offers its Diversity Development Series seminars to assist our associates in their understanding of diversity trends and challenges. These sessions help to provide key information, tips and skills to empower associates to use their unique talents and ideas to contribute to their professional growth. As a result of these efforts and many others, more than 25 percent of all Wal-Mart managers and officials are minorities, including African-Americans.
Wal-Mart actively recruits associates from minority-serving institutions, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In fact, more than 5,400 of our associates are graduates from 73 HBCUs across the country.
Uh-oh. Recruiting from Historically Black Colleges and Universities can be a risky proposition, considering how many of them are losing their accreditation.
"Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment in the District, home to many young black men, rose to 11.9 percent from 11.4 percent, even as it stayed relatively stable in Virginia and Maryland."
Beyond that local effort, Wal-Mart has taken its romance national, setting up scholarships for minorities, donating to the United Negro College Fund and writing checks for several black Congressmen. Patronage has its benefits. In May Black Enterprise, the venerable periodical of Afro-America's business class, announced that Wal-Mart would be a sponsor of its 10th Annual Entrepreneur's Conference. In its June issue, Black Enterprise listed its "30 Best Companies for Diversity." Guess who made the cut?
But Wal-Mart's move into the inner city has set off a debate in the black community about economic development. Traditional activists see the company as a corporate parasite. "Desperate people do desperate things. People would rather have a supermarket than not," says Jesse Jackson, whose Rainbow/PUSH Coalition is headquartered in Chicago. "But the point is that employment and development must go hand in hand. We need work where you can have a livable wage and health insurance, and retirement."
Wal-Mart bends over backwards to placate and pander to the minority community, which is a tactic as American as apple pie.
As Jesse Jackson and other black leaders have pointed out in response to this boast, the slave plantation was once a "leading employer" of African-Americans as well...
Many black community activists were appalled that black leaders were so easily bought off. "I was ashamed to be black!" says Elce Redmond of the South Austin Coalition, a Chicago neighborhood organization, describing how the clergy and elites rolled over...
There are clearly profound racial tensions in the labor movement, and as Wal-Mart continues to move into cities it is likely to continue to exploit these tensions. Warren, a public policy scholar at the University of Chicago, says, "I've been at a loss to figure out why the labor movement can't have an honest conversation about race."
An honest discussion of labor and race in America? We can't even have an honest discussion of race by itself in this nation, let alone compounding the issue with labor issues.
Let's be honest for a moment. A trip to Wal-Mart is akin to watching Idiocracy, a movie that paints a dystopian portrait of the 25th century and the average IQ level of future inhabitants of this nation:
The film tells the story of two ordinary people who are taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment that goes awry, and awaken 500 years in the future. They discover that the world has degenerated into a dystopia where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid human society devoid of individual responsibility or consequences.
Watch the movie, then venture into a Wal-Mart. The similarities will startle you.
Black people make up a significant portion of Wal-Mart employees and a large portion of the patrons who help make that corporation the worlds biggest. And yet, the average Wal-Mart experience - as lampooned by peopleofwalmart.com - is laughable and unpleasant in a macabre sort of way.
Remember that Wal-Mart represents America beautifully in all its splendid grotesqueness and that the store - which we have discussed in our Black Friday and Waiting in Line entries - paints a clear picture of the blanket barbarism that exists within our borders:
"Family members of the fatally trampled Wal-Mart worker are suing the corporation for not protecting their employees from potential harm from their own customers. Is a lawsuit preferable?
There are Wal-Marts all over the country. There were Wal-Marts that offered the same discounts and had the same crowd issues. Out of all of those Wal-Marts nationally, how many had the doors pushed off the hinges by their customers, trampling employees and customers alike?
This was obviously an unfortunate anomaly.
BUT if Wal-Mart turned their parking lot into a police state that Thursday night/Friday morning, just what do you think people like Jesse Jackson would be saying? The majority of the people in the pictures rushing the Wal-Mart doors were black. A pre-assumption they would behave unruly would have been seized on by civil rights ambulance chasers as racism."
Or how about this one - already discussed at SBPDL - which tells the tale of an individual who couldn't wait her turn in line:
"This much isn't in dispute: Heather Ellis joined a line at a Wal-Mart nearly three years ago.
Whether she cut in line or merely switched checkout lanes to join her cousin is in dispute, and the accounts of what happened next vary greatly. The debate has divided this economically struggling town of 11,000 along racial lines.
Ellis, then a college student with no criminal history, said some white patrons shoved and hurled racial slurs at her when she switched checkout lines at Wal-Mart in January 2007.
Store employees refused to give her back her change and called police, she said.
And when she was taken outside to the parking lot, an officer allegedly told her to "Go back to the ghetto." Another roughed her up, she said."
We haven't discussed this story yet, because the implications of said event shock even us:
"An elderly Wal-Mart greeter was punched in the face and seriously hurt outside the store in North Versailles.Channel 11 News got surveillance video of the incident, which happened Tuesday night. The video shows a man walking up to Thomas Jenkins, 72, of McKeesport, and knocking him to ground. Police identified the suspect as Paul Washington, 55, of North Versailles.
Jenkins was taken to UPMC McKeesport Hospital and then to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital because of the severity of his injuries.Jenkins' twin sister, Betty Evans, said there was blood everywhere."There was blood everywhere. He suffered a stroke and was on blood thinnner (before the attack), so there was blood everywhere after the attack," said Evans. "Whoever did this was very cruel."Evans said her brother's mouth is so swollen that he can't talk. She said the bones in his face are swollen and surgery has been postponed."
Wal-Mart greeters happen to be one of the few enjoyable aspects of a trip to Wal-Mart, for they usually a gregarious senior citizen that just want contact with the outside world. Being punched for "bumping"into a Black person is just another example of living in a Black world.
Or, if you fail to provide goods for a check that can't be certified and the individual offering that check is Black, you better be prepared to be fired:
"Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has fired the manager of a supercenter here for "poor judgment" after he called sheriff's deputies to apprehend a black manager of a business whose $13,600 company check could not be verified.
The decision came after a two-week internal investigation concluded the store manager violated Wal-Mart's procedures but found no evidence of racial discrimination.
The store manager, Mark Cornett, could not be reached for comment at his home. Company officials said another, unnamed member of the management team at the 11110 Causeway Blvd. store also will be disciplined, but declined to say more.
And all Wal-Mart store managers in the Tampa area will get racial sensitivity training next month, although it had been previously scheduled.
Reginald Pitts, a 34-year-old human resources manager for GAF Materials Corp., suspects he was singled out for extra scrutiny because he is an African-American who tried to buy 520 gift cards for employees on Nov. 23. But he is still waiting for Wal-Mart to fully explain why he was threatened with arrest after the store said it could not verify his employer's $13,600 check.
Pitts' case has generated a national firestorm of bad publicity for the retail giant at a time when there are some signs it is losing a high-stakes public relations war with its critics. The treatment Pitts encountered, meantime, was familiar to many minority customers who say they are too often treated like prospective thieves by retailers such as Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has a zero tolerance policy for racial discrimination and racial profiling, and it called the Brandon firing evidence of how seriously it takes complaints."
Crime in America is bad, and yet Wal-Mart - the ultimate corporate manifestation of America - is a haven for the criminally gifted:
Among the critical findings of the “Is Wal-Mart Safe?” study:
Wal-Mart stores experience a significant number of police incidents. In 2004, police received 148, 331 calls for service for the 551 Wal-Mart stores analyzed;
The average number of reported incidents per store for the 551 stores analyzed was 269;
The Wal-Mart stores in our sample that reported the most incidents in 2004 experienced higher average rates of reported police incidents than nearby Target stores;
Based on the average rate of reported incidents for the 551 Wal-Mart stores analyzed in this study, we estimate that in 2004 police may have received almost 1 million calls for service at Wal-Mart stores or parking lots – or 2 reported police incidents per minute in 2004;
Nationally, Wal-Mart stores cost local taxpayers an estimated $77 million in increased policing costs in 2004
Wal-Mart is a corporate giant, offering low prices to a broad range of consumers across the nation - nowhere more so than the obese south - and many people enjoy poking fun at the biggest company in the world by calling it a "redneck" gathering place.
Peopleofwalmart.com does a good job of showcasing the obese white people who frequent the store and the other unusual creatures that pass for bipeds who slither out of strange cracks in the small towns to showcase their cracks for the internet world, but the site misses the point.
The data points to something disturbing, the kind of information that is included in Stuff Black People Don't Like. If our future is Idiocracy, then a trip to Wal-Mart is like visiting days of future past, for SBPDL has to include being the real peopleofwalmart.com.
Whether it is stampeding fellow Black people on Black Friday; crying racism over cutting in line; punching elderly greeters; or working the check-out lanes, Black people find themselves constantly at the center of the Wal-Mart publicity world.
The Wal-Mart store in uptown New Orleans, built within the last year, survived the storm but was destroyed by looters.
"They took everything, all the electronics, the food, the bikes," said John Stonaker, a Wal-Mart security officer. "People left their old clothes on the floor when they took new ones. The only thing left are the country-and-western CDs. You can still get a Shania Twain album."
Black people are the real peopleofwalmart.com, whether they will admit it or not.
Call it the Rosa Parks syndrome, but Black people hate to wait at the back of anything, be it a bus or a line.
With Black Friday approaching quickly, the fear of people being trampled to death as Black people fight for the merchandise marked down to 70-80 percent off its original price, is percolating throughout every department store and especially Wal-Mart.
Remember, it was last year that a poor Wal-Mart greeter was greeted with an untimely visit by the Grim-Reaper as Black people trampled him to death:
"A stampede of shoppers in a Valley Stream Wal-Mart on Friday morning left one worker dead and at least three patrons injured after an impatient crowd broke down the store doors and trampled the seasonal employee, Nassau police said.
Jdimytai Damour of Jamaica, Queens, was pushed to the ground by the 2,000-plus crowd just before 5 a.m. as management was preparing to open the store, which is located across from the main Green Acres Mall building. Hundreds stepped over, around and on the 34-year-old worker as they rushed into the store.
"This crowd was out of control," said Nassau Police Det. Lt. Michael Fleming, whose squad is investigating.
"Nobody was trying to help him," said shopper Nakea Augustine, who was in the line. "They were rushing in the store, rushing, rushing, rushing."
Wal-Mart has gone to great lengths to define and identify each category of shopper:
Price-Value - The poorest among us. Loyal to Wal-Mart, to a fault. Primarily young, rural, Baptist women. Uneducated beyond high-school. More worried and in poorer health than average. Watches Lifetime and ABC Family. Reads Better Homes & Gardens. Drives a used car which he/she still owes money on.
Brand Aspirational - His/Her image does not fit with the reality of his/her economic situation. Often a racial minority. Less technologically savvy than other demographics. Sports oriented, with a skew towards the NFL. Watches Fox Sports and reads automotive, athletic and fitness magazines.
Price-Sensitive Affluent - Highest income category. White, male, over age 45, highly educated. Very technologically savvy. Will compare products on the internet then purchase them for a better price in a retail store. Watches PBS and The History Channel. Reads National Geographic. Owns a completely paid for vehicle that is a newer model and was new when purchased."
So, what does waiting in line have to do with Black people you ask? Everything. Just look at the strange case of Heather Ellis and Wal-Mart:
"Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.
Witnesses have told authorities that Ellis cut in front of waiting customers at the Walmart in Kennett on Jan. 6, 2007, shoved merchandise already placed on a conveyor belt out of the way, and became belligerent when confronted, according to court filings.
Ellis maintains she was merely joining her cousin, whose checkout line was moving more quickly. She claimed in a written complaint to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that she was then pushed by a white customer, hassled by store employees, called racial slurs and physically mistreated by Kennett police officers.
Police say in court documents that Ellis refused requests to calm down and leave the property, allegedly kicking one's shin and splitting another's lip while resisting arrest. Her trial on charges of assaulting police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace begins Wednesday in Dunklin County Circuit Court. Syracuse, N.Y.-based Your Black World Coalition is organizing a Monday rally in Kennett.
"What a shame the system can destroy a young person's future like this because of bad cops," Ellis wrote to the NAACP in April.
Let's be honest: We live in a Black world now, so Ellis is obviously the good guy in this situation that only Wal-Mart could play host too, for centuries from now, historians will excavate these stores around the remains of the United States of America and postulate that these mega-buildings were holy ground for 21st century boobs.
Since Wal-Mart does have 8,000 stores worldwide, these future historians will speculate as to the religious meanings of these massive structures and the cult that was worshiped in the many doors were the elderly once greeted every customer with a happy smile.
In the new America, Black people shouldn't have to wait in the back of the line for anything, let alone a minor purchase of goods at Wal-Mart.
Interestingly, two videos showcase what happens to people when they dare maintain that order and civility be maintained and that importance of lines be established and accepted to ensure that civilization be perpetuated.
For without lines, man is but an animal, rushing into the wilderness of life - leaving order behind - and descending into an endless sea of chaos where the line for waiting is but remembrance of things once done.
Stuff Black People Don't Like includes braving the end of the line, for Rosa Parks ended Black people sitting in the back of the bus once and for all. This, naturally, carried over into every facet of life, for Black people never wait at the end of US Post Office lines, movie lines, amusement park lines, etc., for this would mean the rule of civility applies to them.
As the two videos below show, they do not, and to even consider rules applying to Black people is grounds for being a racist.
After all, if someone objects to a Black person cutting in front of them, then the easy and simple explanation for their behavior is that they are insensitive and a racist.
"Police say in court documents that Ellis refused requests to calm down and leave the property, allegedly kicking one's shin and splitting another's lip. Her trial on charges of assaulting police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace begins Wednesday in Dunklin County Circuit Court."
So remember, waiting in line can save you 10-15 years of your life.
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