Friday, August 18, 2006

Open Mouth, Insert Foot

Andrew Young is a notable guy, civil rights leader, former mayor of Atlanta, former ambassador to the UN. WalMart hired him to burnish its image among American blacks.

But in the process of defending WalMart, he slammed mom-and-pop stores because:

"...those are the people who have been overcharging us selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs; very few black people own these stores."

WalMart hired Andrew Young
So its praises could be sung
To the black community.

His thoughts were out-of-tunity.

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