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Nancy - LibraryLady
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3811
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 2:15 pm: | 
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http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/18/news/newsmakers/bc.retail.walmart.young.reut/ind ex.htm?cnn=yes
Young told the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African-American newspaper, that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years, "selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables," The New York Times said.
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Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3589
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 2:25 pm: |
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Hi Nancy. I'll gladly join your simultaneous thread, as I can't erase mine anymore.
It is more than just anti-Semitism, as in anti-Jewish stuff. Andy outdoes Mel by going after Arabs and Koreans as well. And then he has the gall to say in effect that "what plays in Atlanta or Topeka or Chicago is taken differently in LA or New York." Right, this from the man who was once thought to be presidential material, who represented the US at the UN in, horror of horrors, New York City, who has consorted with and raised money from Hollywood stars.
And, I gotta wonder, if it is first the Jews, then the Arabs, and then the Koreans, are they all in league to get the African-Americans? Is there some grand cabal running the country that says, okay, the Jews have dominated enough, now it is the Korean's turn? Next it will be the Russians?
You would think that by now Andy Young would have had the time and insight to look into the historical and sociological reasons for this instead of laying the blame on other ethnic groups. That would be a more enlightening and engaging controversy for him to start. |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5569
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 2:42 pm: |
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Bizarre, wrong behavior on his part. What on Earth was he thinking?
It's also appalling that he became a Wal-Mart shill. If he's concerned about lack of African-American ownership of local businesses, Wal-Mart will cut that off root and branch in a way the various ethnic groups never would have considered.
From a version of the script for "Do The Right Thing" is pertinent
Quote:
ML
Look at those Korean mother****rs
across the street. I betcha they
haven't been a year off da
mother******g boat before they
opened up their own place.
CLOSE--COCONUT SID
COCONUT SID
It's been about a year.
CLOSE--ML
ML
A mother******g year off the
mother*****g boat and got a good
business in our neighborhood
occupying a building that had been
boarded up for longer than I care
to remember and I've been here a
long time.
CLOSE--SWEET DICK WILLIE
SWEET DICK WILLIE
It has been a long time.
36.
CLOSE--COCONUT SID
COCONUT SID
How long?
CLOSE--ML
ML
Too long! Too long. Now for the
life of me, I haven't been able to
figger this out. Either dem
Koreans are geniuses or we Blacks
are dumb.
This is truly a stupefying question and all three are silent.
What is the answer?
COCONUT SID
It's gotta be cuz we're Black. No
other explanation, nobody don't
want the Black man to be about ••••.
SWEET DICK WILLIE
Old excuse.
ML
I'll be one happy fool to see us
have our own business right here.
Yes, sir. I'd be the first in line
to spend the little money I got.
Sweet Dick Willie gets up from his folding chair.
SWEET DICK WILLIE
It's Miller time. Let me go give
these Koreans s'more business.
ML
It's a •••••••••••• shame.
COCONUT SID
Ain't that a b***h.
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SO Ref
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Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 2104
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 3:29 pm: |
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Andy Young got in trouble while mayor of Atlanta for offending Irish folks by referring to the police vans as "paddy wagons." |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 12429
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 3:43 pm: |
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I don't have words for how disappointed I am with Mr. Young. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
If he wanted to make points for Walmart all he had to say is that the small, local stores provide fewer benefits than Walmart and pay the same or less while charging generally higher prices.
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cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 5810
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 3:53 pm: |
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Young introduced a ethnic/racial component on mom-and-pop stores (some of which is true) that generally have to charge higher prices than Walmart (which is true) and linked it to substandard products with the implied intent to sell •••• at high prices (which is false). That's what the problem is.
You can get 'bad meat and wilted vegetables' in any store -- big or small. |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1966
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 4:13 pm: |
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Why isn't the liberal media reporting this? |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5570
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 4:17 pm: |
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It was in this morning's Times. |
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