Wal-Mart’s Wooing of the Reverend Sharpton
(Huffington Post) — Wal-Mart continues its urban warfare campaign, looking to colonize communities of color by co-opting black opinion-makers. They have done this in Chicago, where the retailer enlisted black Aldermen to embrace their cause, and in New Orleans, where developers actually paid black religious leaders to testify at public hearings about the virtues of chain stores. Now they are mining the black community in New York City. The most notable recruitment of black talent happened almost five years ago. In February of 2006, Wal-Mart proudly announced that “civil rights pioneer” Andrew Young had signed on as “national Steering Committee Chairman” of a new corporate creation called the Working Families for Wal-Mart, which the retailer described as “a group comprised of individuals and families who understand and appreciate Wal-Mart’s positive impact on the working families of America.”
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