Racist Barnes and Noble Display

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

I'm not sure I understand why some people are feeling the need to boycott B&N.

It wasn't someone from B&N who put it there, and it certainly was not part of their display/floor plan.

That happened because some idiot thought it would be funny put the book there, and started circulating it around the internet.

B&N had nothing to do that with that.

It could have happened if that person walked into a Borders store or any other store instead of B&N.

Apparently you and many other people keep missing the part about that display not being in an area accessible to customers.

This is why racism still exists..people always find a way to dance around it or excuse it.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Apparently you and many other people keep missing the part about that display not being in an area accessible to customers.

This is why racism still exists..people always find a way to dance around it or excuse it.

Apparently you don't know how to read the article you posted:

Originally Posted by the original article

He added that customers had access to the window display via a two-foot wide corridor between the bookshelf and the storefront.

I have stood in the window at one of my B&N, it isn't hard for a customer to place a book there without a lot of people noticing.

[deepimpact2]

Actually I did read, which is why I said he was lying. He's going on the assumption that people aren't familiar with the store enough to know the difference.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Actually I did read, which is why I said he was lying. He's going on the assumption that people aren't familiar with the store enough to know the difference.

How do you know he was lying? Are you the manager of the B&N, or someone who actually saw this display?

You keep telling people here that they don't know what they are talking about, but it seems like you are the clueless one.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Actually I did read, which is why I said he was lying. He's going on the assumption that people aren't familiar with the store enough to know the difference.

Prove it.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Actually I did read, which is why I said he was lying. He's going on the assumption that people aren't familiar with the store enough to know the difference.

So your first argument was that the area was not accessible to customers, so when that what proved wrong, now you're saying it's b/c the manager said it's because ppl aren't familiar with the store layout?

Like epchick said, it's not hard to do what this random customer did.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

So your first argument was that the area was not accessible to customers, so when that what proved wrong, now you're saying it's b/c the manager said it's because ppl aren't familiar with the store layout?

What are you talking about?

[cheerfulgreek]

There's no way B&N would have done that. That totally was a customer prank.

[starang21]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Actually I did read, which is why I said he was lying. He's going on the assumption that people aren't familiar with the store enough to know the difference.

and you're going in with the assumption he's lying. not everyone can be everywhere all the time.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

This is why racism still exists..people always find a way to dance around it or excuse it.

No. No. No.

Racism isn't contingent upon any of this. LOL.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

No. No. No.

Racism isn't contingent upon any of this. LOL.

Actually it is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, and at this point I don't care. One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it. When things like this happen, everyone wants to find excuses for it and brush it under the rug. It was the same thing with that cartoon in the NY post. Excuses were made for that. The powers that be told everyone it wasn't racist, people bought it. The end.

Not to mention the fact that there is something inherently wrong when these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Actually it is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, and at this point I don't care. One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it. When things like this happen, everyone wants to find excuses for it and brush it under the rug. It was the same thing with that cartoon in the NY post. Excuses were made for that. The powers that be told everyone it wasn't racist, people bought it. The end.

Not to mention the fact that there is something inherently wrong when these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.

The NY Post was different in that the management KNEW what they were doing...you cannot compare what they were doing to this.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it.

No.

Racism lingers because people (in general) are looking for, and are outraged over, displays at B&N and email forwards of watermelon patches.

If all of that stuff ends and prejudiced people keep their opinions to themselves because they don't want to offend black folks and spark an NAACP march...racism still will not end.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

Actually it is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, and at this point I don't care. One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it. When things like this happen, everyone wants to find excuses for it and brush it under the rug. It was the same thing with that cartoon in the NY post. Excuses were made for that. The powers that be told everyone it wasn't racist, people bought it. The end.

Not to mention the fact that there is something inherently wrong when these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.

I think wearing shirts and using slogans such as "Do you smell what Barrack is cooking" and "Barrack the Vote" are blatant disrespect of the Presidency. Do you agree with that?

It was some stupid customer. Do you really think an employee would risk their job pulling a prank like this? Especially when jobs are hard to come by these days. And if it had been an employee, I'm sure someone would have found out and they would have gotten fired. That still does not make B&N as a national the bad guy.

Think of it this way. I'm assuming you're a member of a Greek organization. How would you feel if there was some random person, who hung out with members of your organization, did something horribly wrong... and other unknowing people thought this person was a member of your org, started boycotting it and spreading around how bad this org was?

One bad apple doesn't make a whole entity guilty... and this bad apple wasn't even a member of their team.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

It was some stupid customer. Do you really think an employee would risk their job pulling a prank like this? Especially when jobs are hard to come by these days. And if it had been an employee, I'm sure someone would have found out and they would have gotten fired. That still does not make B&N as a national the bad guy.

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Are you living in the United States? You can't be serious with a statement like that. Do you know how many employees do stupid things of this nature?