A male voice came over the system Sunday evening and calmly announced: “Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now.”…
If I were the manager, besides securing the PA system from potential hijacking by the public, I’d have gotten on the system straightaway and pulled a bit of face-saving pre-emptive affirmative action: “But first, all white people leave, with the last one holding the door…”
Update:
Teen charged in NJ Walmart racial comment case
16-year-old boy charged with making racial comment over intercom at southern NJ Walmart
…Walmart spokesman David Tovar said in a statement issued after the news conference…”We have updated our intercom system at this store to prevent this from happening again.
Suggested sentence: have the kid work at the Wal-Mart in question for a month in blackface, as a greeter in the afternoon, after mornings in the grill as a white-uniformed chef, like a digital-age Rastus, serving customers Cream of Wheat bought from his wages.
DSL, this is the finest post I’ve seen from you, the most coherent, the most interesting, the most creative suggestions, not to mention I can read a whole sentence and understand exactly what you said. Nice work.
Back in the days when, fresh out of college, I found my Siarlyses among the editors and readers of a popular journal of opinion now enjoying its terminal senility coincident with my departure, it might have taken months from my “posting” my final draft with the USPS to my receipt of the fan mail resulting.
Flash-forward to the blog age, and the fan e-mails (and Freddie Macs) arrive, if they do, sometimes within minutes of my postings. And on the evidence of this latest such, it would appear that as of my 702nd post at Alexandria, I may be hitting my stride at last; proof positive that persistence pays dividends indeed. Who says progress is a myth?