Damage Control
People today are so fucking stupid. Did that sentence offend you. Exactly. I am so sick of these people/groups of people getting so easily offended that they jump to some obscure conclusion every time their misguided attention seeking minds see an oportunity. For example today Walmart issued an appology to dvd online purchasors. Aparently when individuals were interested in purchasing such titles as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Planet of the Apes, the suggested other popular titles that were displayed below were those that apeal more to African Americans.
Before you call your lawyer in disgust please let me reiterate the robot bullshit response Walmart issued in an unecessary and ball-less damage control statement.
"Walmart is heartsick over..."
Heartsick? Besides the fact that i don't even know what the fuck that means is the clear issue that no one was offended. I think this country should just not care about people that are easily offended. Like who was the idiot that played the race card on walmart and got them "heartsick" How far can a society progress if coincidence is considered racism. Let me get this clear people...Racism and Stereotyping are two different things. Two VERY different things. Walmart, although unbelieveable that they have a heart, was the victim in this case. Not black people. I mean seriously, the next time I am doing an online purchase at per say J Crew and I see the screen that says "customers that liked our polo shirts also picked our casual white socks" I will be fucking furious knowing that those racist J Crew management motherfuckers want to see me in white. Maybe in a J Crew perfect world everything is white huh J Crew? Maybe I want some white out too? Or better yet some "Crackers" Call my lawyer. I can only hope that J Crew will be severely "Heartsick" and avert from their oppressive ways.
How am i doing so far. Right, I sound like a fucking idiot, otherwise known as the person that would have a problem with Walmart in a similar situation. Walmart should have released a press release such as this.
Dear attention seekers,
We stand by our decision and if you don't like it then next year we will suggest that you eat a dick sandwich. Or we are "Heartsick"
Walmart, bitch!
Walmart should have totally played it off like it wasn't a big deal and nothing would have ever come of this except the sheer coincidence that it infact later turned out to be as purchasors of titles such as Home Alone (possibly the whitest movie ever made) and Power Puff Girls DVD were suggested the same African American Classics. Way to throw up a premature red flag walmart.
Maybe walmart did some market research and found out that black people like the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and decided to sell it with African American titles. I didn't know that there were black people movies, i must have missed that isle in blockbuster. McDonalds, Sprite, other big companies market to minorities all the time and cross sell each other. If i were an angry black activist, it wouldn't be at how walmart was treating me, it would be how companies perceived and targeted my market. I would question...why when i listen to hip hop stations that I always hear used car offers that focus on catering to people with poor credit. Even I get offended when I hear offers like "bad credit, no credit, stolen credit?! you need a car, and you need it fast. For just 1 dollar drive away in a brand new car today. Thats right just 1 dollar down and payments as low as 50 dollars a month for the next 688 months and this new car is yours!!!" So after the car dies in like 4 years cause it is a piece of shit floor model, you still have like 49 years to go on payments. I think its just ridiculous how black people are marketed to. It is even offensive to me and i don't get offended very easily at all. I just don't see how dwelling on unfortunate coincidences trumps a pressing social problem that really exhists and is just getting worse. I am also the last person to jump to Walmarts defense, like i totally hope their stock plumets cause of this but it wont because they own wall street including the sign. Think about it, if people focused on the real problem instead of symptoms of that problem we wouldn't be in IRAQ right now. And over 2000 service men and women would have been with their famiies for the holidays. Instead they were casualties measured in escalating numbers, left to loom over an ungreatful nation. Smarten up people. This has entry has nothing to do with race or stereotyping, it has to do with knowing when to act, and how to react. This country has misguided tolerances, and it leaves me "Heartsick"
Before you call your lawyer in disgust please let me reiterate the robot bullshit response Walmart issued in an unecessary and ball-less damage control statement.
"Walmart is heartsick over..."
Heartsick? Besides the fact that i don't even know what the fuck that means is the clear issue that no one was offended. I think this country should just not care about people that are easily offended. Like who was the idiot that played the race card on walmart and got them "heartsick" How far can a society progress if coincidence is considered racism. Let me get this clear people...Racism and Stereotyping are two different things. Two VERY different things. Walmart, although unbelieveable that they have a heart, was the victim in this case. Not black people. I mean seriously, the next time I am doing an online purchase at per say J Crew and I see the screen that says "customers that liked our polo shirts also picked our casual white socks" I will be fucking furious knowing that those racist J Crew management motherfuckers want to see me in white. Maybe in a J Crew perfect world everything is white huh J Crew? Maybe I want some white out too? Or better yet some "Crackers" Call my lawyer. I can only hope that J Crew will be severely "Heartsick" and avert from their oppressive ways.
How am i doing so far. Right, I sound like a fucking idiot, otherwise known as the person that would have a problem with Walmart in a similar situation. Walmart should have released a press release such as this.
Dear attention seekers,
We stand by our decision and if you don't like it then next year we will suggest that you eat a dick sandwich. Or we are "Heartsick"
Walmart, bitch!
Walmart should have totally played it off like it wasn't a big deal and nothing would have ever come of this except the sheer coincidence that it infact later turned out to be as purchasors of titles such as Home Alone (possibly the whitest movie ever made) and Power Puff Girls DVD were suggested the same African American Classics. Way to throw up a premature red flag walmart.
Maybe walmart did some market research and found out that black people like the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and decided to sell it with African American titles. I didn't know that there were black people movies, i must have missed that isle in blockbuster. McDonalds, Sprite, other big companies market to minorities all the time and cross sell each other. If i were an angry black activist, it wouldn't be at how walmart was treating me, it would be how companies perceived and targeted my market. I would question...why when i listen to hip hop stations that I always hear used car offers that focus on catering to people with poor credit. Even I get offended when I hear offers like "bad credit, no credit, stolen credit?! you need a car, and you need it fast. For just 1 dollar drive away in a brand new car today. Thats right just 1 dollar down and payments as low as 50 dollars a month for the next 688 months and this new car is yours!!!" So after the car dies in like 4 years cause it is a piece of shit floor model, you still have like 49 years to go on payments. I think its just ridiculous how black people are marketed to. It is even offensive to me and i don't get offended very easily at all. I just don't see how dwelling on unfortunate coincidences trumps a pressing social problem that really exhists and is just getting worse. I am also the last person to jump to Walmarts defense, like i totally hope their stock plumets cause of this but it wont because they own wall street including the sign. Think about it, if people focused on the real problem instead of symptoms of that problem we wouldn't be in IRAQ right now. And over 2000 service men and women would have been with their famiies for the holidays. Instead they were casualties measured in escalating numbers, left to loom over an ungreatful nation. Smarten up people. This has entry has nothing to do with race or stereotyping, it has to do with knowing when to act, and how to react. This country has misguided tolerances, and it leaves me "Heartsick"
posted by mcbride at 2:06 PM
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53 and a third years to go, not 49.
~Christopher Kent.
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