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“Andrew Young Resigns Job as Wal-Mart Image-Builder”
New York Times, August 18, 2006
“The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had ‘ripped off’ urban communities for years, ‘selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.’
Andrew Young apologized for disparaging remarks about Jewish, Korean and Arab shopkeepers.”
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