Wal-Mart Loses a Liability

It's always dangerous to pander to your critics, and Wal-Mart is paying the price for doing just that. In order to appease black critics, they hired former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young. They're regretting that decision after Young made remarks that certainly appear racist:

Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improve its public image, said early Friday he was resigning from his position as head of an outside support group amid criticism for remarks seen as racially offensive.

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In an interview with the weekly newspaper, Young was asked whether he was concerned that Wal-Mart causes smaller, mom-and-pop stores to close.

"Well, I think they should; they ran the 'mom and pop' stores out of my neighborhood," the paper quoted Young as saying. "But you see, 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."

Young, who has since apologized for the remarks, said he decided to end his involvement with Working Families for Wal-Mart after he started getting calls about the story.

"Things that are matter-of-fact in Atlanta, in the New York and Los Angeles environment, tend to be a lot more volatile," he said.

It didn't quite reach the level of Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown", Al Sharpton's false accusations against a white police officer, or Julian Bond's accusations regarding the "Taliban wing of the Republican Party", but Andrew Young is yet another example of a black "civil rights" leader who is basically a racist at heart.