New Feature: Dems in the News!
ATLANTA (AP) Civil rights leader [AND PROMINENT DEMOCRAT] Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improve its public image, said early Friday he stepped down from his position as head of an outside support group.
The move comes on the heels of comments Young made to a newspaper that many felt were racially offensive.
``I think I was on the verge of becoming part of the controversy and I didn't want to become a distraction from the main issues, so I thought I ought to step down,'' Young, a former Atlanta [DEMOCRAT] mayor and U.N. ambassador, told The Associated Press.
In an interview, 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.''
Hmmmm, didn't he get the memo that the party likes the Arabs. At least the radical Islamic ones...
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