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2006-07-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

NAACP's Endless Blackmail Campaign Now Targets Target

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Posted by Sholuth Flotch4186 2006-07-18 03:33|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cutting in on Jesse's shakedown action? He ain't gonna like that...

Posted by tu3031 2006-07-18 08:44|| 2006-07-18 08:44|| Front Page Top

#2 No, the turf's been divided. Jesse gets Wal*Mart and NAACP gets Target. Regional players are to be fought out (figuratively of course) on a market by market basis.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 09:11|| 2006-07-18 09:11|| Front Page Top

#3 A Target spokeswoman said via e-mail that the company opted out of the survey "because Target views diversity as being inclusive of all people from all different backgrounds, not just one group."

Looks like I'm going to be doing more shopping at Target.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-07-18 09:14|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-07-18 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm beginning to think we're turning the tide on these shakedown artists. Heck, my own middle-class cul-de-sac shows more REAL diversity than you could shake a stick at...my two immediate neighbors are black and Mexican, both married couples with 1 kid each. Across the cul-de-sac we have a married Asian (Chinese) couple with 3 girls. On the other side of my immediate neighbor, we have 2 married couples from Bosnia who've just moved in with 2 boys.

And, what do I see during the week? ALL of these kids playing together. And, this is in the "deep South" outside of Atlanta. As all of these "groups" move up the economic ladder into the middle class, they're shedding their "groupthink" mindset of being the constant victim and making things work day to day. They all have the same concerns I do...cost of gas, keeping the good job they have, cutting the yard, going to Target/Wal-Mart, etc.

Maybe, I'm being optimistic, but as this true melting pot continues to happen, I can't help but think they'll sway more toward the Republicans. We'll know more after November, but my County alone is now majority-minority (not just blacks, but huge groups of Bosnians, Hispanics, Asians, etc.) and yet, we appear to ALL shop at Target. And, seeing as how only 4,000 showed up to the NAACP Nat'l Convention, that gives me hope too (the MSM may have inflated that # too).

Posted by BA 2006-07-18 10:07|| 2006-07-18 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 wooops, meant to mention that my County swayed for GW Bush in 2004 by largest % of any GA county, and that includes the other very conservative county of Cobb (home of Bob Barr and Newt Gengrich).

Posted by BA 2006-07-18 10:08|| 2006-07-18 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 there goes the huge fan base for the NASCAR Target race car....damn

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-18 10:26|| 2006-07-18 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 lol, Frank, I need to purchase some screen cleaning spray after that one. Ah well, guess I'll go to Target after work to pick it up.

Posted by BA 2006-07-18 10:36|| 2006-07-18 10:36|| Front Page Top

#8 The UN and the NAACP are two organizations that have long outlived their usefulness, assuming they ever had any use in the first place. I mean, really, isn't "colored people" just a bit passe in the age of "rap niggaz?"

Posted by mac 2006-07-18 10:42|| 2006-07-18 10:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Seething, angry, and biting the hands that feed.....

Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter
Corporate Communications
1955 Monroe Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30324
404-876-3302
FAX: 404-575-3082

"FRIENDS" EVENTS PLANNED TO PROMOTE $1 MILLION NATIONAL CONTRIBUTION FROM TARGET IN CONNECTION WITH ITS "FRIENDS PARTY PACK"

ATLANTA The national American Red Cross has received a $1 million contribution from Target Stores in connection with the new Warner Home Video Friends Party Pack, available exclusively in Target stores nationwide to helps Friends fans across the country celebrate the May 6th series finale on NBC.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-18 13:39|| 2006-07-18 13:39|| Front Page Top

#10 I simply cannot fathom people whose sense of identity is entirely focused on the color of their skin. This is the antithesis of MLK's dream that men would not be "judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character". Yet these clowns persist. I also find it laughable that they preached against "victim-like thinking" and in the same breath claimed to be victims.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-18 14:05|| 2006-07-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

#11 FWIT: the local area Target stores refuse to allow the USMCR Toys for Tots collection and Salvation Army to set up at Christmas. I only visit the stores when I feel the need for a rest stop.

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-07-18 14:36|| 2006-07-18 14:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh, and their name. What kind of response would whitey get if he referred to his fellow citizens as 'colored' these days? Could you imaging if the article had been typed up with 'colored' instead of 'black' in the narrative? Yet they still haven't gotten around to changing the very name they call themselves. Another, one set of rules for us and ...

Posted by Thrainter Hupinenter1535 2006-07-18 16:54|| 2006-07-18 16:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Gordon called on blacks to stop shopping at Target, in particular, until they answer the NAACP's questions - though he stopped short of calling the action a boycott. "They didn't even care to respond to our survey," he said. "Stay out of their stores."
Shoplift somewhere else.

Posted by allanakhbar 2006-07-18 17:07|| 2006-07-18 17:07|| Front Page Top

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