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Walmart Issues Apology for Racial Slur Appearing on Weave Cap Description, but There’s an Even Bigger Issue
Walmart apparently doesn’t vet its vendors too well, and the latest fiasco involves a weave cap with a color description that incorporates the n-word. Social media was appalled after noticing that the color description included the racial slur “nigger brown.” The photo was first spotted by Twitter user Kwani Lunis and began to unfold from…
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Wal-Mart Shopper Tells Latina to ‘Go Back to Mexico,’ Calls Black Woman the N-Word in Viral Video
The deplorables stay wilding. It’s like they can’t contain their racist little selves. This time, a white woman is seen hurling racial comments and racial slurs at a Latina and a black woman in a Wal-Mart store in Bentonville, Ark., in a video that has gone viral. The video was shared Monday on Facebook by…
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The Trump Nightmare Personified
If you ever wondered what black America sees in their mind’s eye when they imagine a Trump supporter; If you questioned what the people wringing their hands in apprehension and dismay thought would happen when Trump took office; If you wondered what immigrants, Muslims, and all of non-white America imagines when they read about the…
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5 Malnourished Kids Found Living in Car at Fla. Wal-Mart
Donell Barron, 34, and Rikki Hart, 34, were arrested Sunday after authorities say a deputy found five malnourished children living in a car at a Wal-Mart in Greenacres, Fla., the Palm Beach Post reports. It’s unclear what the relationship is between Barron, Hart and the five kids, ages 4, 5, 6, 8 and 14. The…
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'Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter' Shirts Pulled From Wal-Mart's Website
After a letter sent out by the president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police organization in the nation, Wal-Mart decided to stop selling on its website T-shirts and sweatshirts displaying the word “Bulletproof” with the words “Black Lives Matter” written under it, the Washington Post reports. On Tuesday, Chuck Canterbury, the president…
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Former NJ Priest Charged in Choking of 4-Month-Old at Kansas Wal-Mart
A former pastor is facing charges of attempting to choke a 4-month-old baby he did not know at an Overland Park, Kan., Wal-Mart, the Kansas City Star reports. Oleh Zhownirovych, 54, a former pastor at the Ukrainian Orthodox Holy Church in Clifton, N.J., was charged in Johnson County (Kan.) District Court with felony aggravated battery and…
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Texas Wal-Mart Shooting Suspect Has Been Shot, Hostages Safe, Police Report
Updated Tuesday, June 14, 1:55 p.m. EDT: The Amarillo, Texas, Police Department has confirmed that a SWAT team has shot the suspect, who is “apparently dead.” The hostages are reportedly safe. Earlier: Authorities are responding to reports of an active shooter who has “barricaded” himself in an Amarillo, Texas, Wal-Mart and may have taken hostages,…
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Two-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots and Kills His Mother. I Have Questions.
Yesterday, a two-year-old who was out shopping with his mother and some other children pulled a gun out of his mother’s purse then at near point-blank range, shot and killed her. This happened at a Wal-Mart in Hayden, Idaho. The mother, Veronica Rutledge, 29, was a killed almost instantly. Based on news reports, the boy…