# "Black people must leave...." A Walmart incident. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887 "2010-03-18T14:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/41 "2010-03-18T18:21:08Z")
> [@The\_Facts](#): > > Yeah, they’re all _stupid_ becuase they’re black, that’s it. What a funny (read “ridiculous”) response to come from someone calling themselves The Facts. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/42 "2010-03-18T19:24:22Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > What are the damages? Exactly how much pain and suffering are we talking about? How do you quantify them? That one shopper isn’t going to go back in to that Walmart, which she relies on for everything. Now she’s going to have to pay higher prices for everything. I suppose that’s quantifiable. And then there’s the years of psychological counselling. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/43 "2010-03-18T19:40:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > That one shopper isn’t going to go back in to that Walmart, which she relies on for everything. Now she’s going to have to pay higher prices for everything. I suppose that’s quantifiable. > > And then there’s the years of psychological counselling. Lol! :rolleyes: Seriously, if anyone can seriously be in pain or suffering over this then they’re not living in the real world. How cozy a world they must live in, to take pain and suffering from something like this. No. They want to bitch about something. That’s all it is. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/44 "2010-03-18T19:52:20Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Maybe some shoppers could provide an anonymous tip to help Walmart find the perp 🙂 I saw it! It was that mexican guy and his korean friend! Oh, wait. No it wasn’t. It was Skippy. What a twee thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/45 "2010-03-18T19:53:21Z")
I was thinking of starting a thread on this too. I agree people are going WAY overboard about this. > [@The\_Facts](#): > > I suspect that had someone broadcast anti-white or anti-christian ideas, this would be a federal case. Beck and O’Reilly would be all over it. I’m waiting to hear Beck say this was an anti-white terrorist who was going to go on a shooting spree in the store, and didn’t want blacks to get shot. He won’t be able to prove it, or provide any reasons for it. But he’ll _fear_ it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Facts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@The\_Facts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Facts)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/46 "2010-03-18T20:07:51Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Pain? Suffering? Yeah, there’s kind of history of black people being harmed by whitey. Might want to look it up sometime. It’s kind of made them distrustful. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/47 "2010-03-18T20:14:45Z")
> [@The\_Facts](#): > > Yeah, there’s kind of history of black people being harmed by whitey. Might want to look it up sometime. It’s kind of made them distrustful. And apparently its made the ones that shop at Walmart stupid. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/48 "2010-03-18T20:17:57Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > And apparently its made the ones that shop at Walmart stupid. It’s the shopping at Wal-Mart that does it…to everyone. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/49 "2010-03-18T20:47:11Z")
> [@The\_Facts](#): > > Yeah, there’s kind of history of black people being harmed by whitey. Might want to look it up sometime. It’s kind of made them distrustful. Yeah, of course. But I think that the outrage expressed is way out of proportion the the incident itself. Get a little miffed? Sure. Begin a police investigation? That seems like overkill. Of course, the woman interviewed was probably still a little in shock when she talked to reporters. Maybe by now she’s gotten a little perspective on things. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/50 "2010-03-18T20:49:04Z")
Jesus Christ, people! “All Blacks must leave the store”? It was a fucking rugby joke. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/51 "2010-03-18T20:51:55Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Jesus Christ, people! “All Blacks must leave the store”? It was a fucking rugby joke. New Zealanders should find this highly offensive! I recommend they boycott all Wal-Mart stores in their country as a protest. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/52 "2010-03-18T20:55:06Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Seriously, if anyone can seriously be in pain or suffering over this then they’re not living in the real world. How cozy a world they must live in, to take pain and suffering from something like this. Ah, you may be confusing pain and suffering with “pain and suffering.” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/53 "2010-03-18T21:13:34Z")
I’m tempted to go there, get on the PA and demand that all bipolar hermaphroditic Eskimos with genital warts immediately leave the store. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/54 "2010-03-18T22:44:59Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Fascinating. If a customer standing in the middle of the store suddenly shouts “ALL BLACK PEOPLE MUST LEAVE!” is Wal-Mart liable for “pain and suffering”? I’m not sure. When the customer promptly gets the crap beaten out of him/her, is Wal-Mart liable for not having security protect them? I once fantasized about getting on the hospital P.A. on April 1st and announcing: "Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard and Dr. Fine! Report to Neurosurgery _on the double!!"_ “Oh, wiseguy! Woob-woob-woob-woob-woob-woob-woob-woob!!!” Someone would take it seriously, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/55 "2010-03-18T23:08:45Z")
[extreme sarcasm] But you see, _ **discrimination happened** _. Once again, African-Americans suffered from living in a institutionally racist society. If the result is exactly the same as if it were done on purpose, effectively it IS on purpose; outcome-based reality. And of course the management will say they had “nothing to do with it”- we all know how code words work. When will the oppression end? [/extreme sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/56 "2010-03-18T23:08:55Z")
Personally, I think it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/57 "2010-03-19T00:03:17Z")
> [@](#): > > As for the people upset over it, I suspect it’s a combination of over-reaction, greed, and all the rampant Walmart hatred. People over-reacting just need to get over it and realize that there is no way Walmart endorsed it. Yes, the real problem here is the way black people keep pretending there’s any racism in this country. They should let it go. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/58 "2010-03-19T00:18:03Z")
Actually, what’s kinda funny to me is that he/she was asking all Black people in the Wal-mart in **Washington** township to leave. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/59 "2010-03-19T02:57:39Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I’m tempted to go there, get on the PA and demand that all bipolar hermaphroditic Eskimos with genital warts immediately leave the store. FINE!!! Didn’t like your fracking store anyway!!! [Stomps out] Sneaks back in to pick up prescriptions [Stomps out] ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887/60 "2010-03-19T03:24:21Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I once fantasized about getting on the hospital P.A. on April 1st and announcing: > > "Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard and Dr. Fine! Report to Neurosurgery _on the double!!"_ Who’s the second Dr. Fine? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-people-must-leave-a-walmart-incident/532887.md?page=4)