Walmart: We're sorry for making ISIL flag cake, In a now-evacuated YouTube feature that picked up a large portion of a-million perspectives in three days, a man named Chuck Netzhammer denounces Walmart for making a custom Islamic State fight banner cake for him the day after his solicitation for a Confederate banner cake was denied.
In the feature, Netzhammer of Louisiana holds up the white cake with dark icing portraying an ISIL image and says, "That is an ISIS fight banner cake that anyone can go purchase at Walmart … however you can't purchase a Confederate banner toy, with, similar to, say, a Dukes of Hazzard auto." (The Islamic State additionally is known as ISIL and ISIS.)
"Walmart, would you be able to please clarify why you're estranging Southern Americans with this waste that you're permitting being sold at your store while at the same point, Confederate memorabilia is not permitted?" he asks.Our gifted bread kitchen partners take pride in what they make for our clients. It's awful one client thought to exploit a partner who did not know the banner and its significance," said John Forrest Ales, a representative for Walmart. "This cake ought not have been made, and we apologize for the error."
At 10:15 p.m. ET Monday, the feature was expelled from YouTube with the announcement, "This feature has been evacuated as an infringement of YouTube's strategy against spam, tricks, and monetarily tricky substance."
A week ago, Walmart, alongside real retailers like Amazon, Ebay and Etsy, banned the offers of things advancing the Confederate fight banner available to be purchased from its stores and its site. The move came that day that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley required the expulsion of a Confederate banner from the state's Capitol grounds.
Walmart is the world's biggest retailer, with almost 11,000 stores in 28 nation
In the feature, Netzhammer of Louisiana holds up the white cake with dark icing portraying an ISIL image and says, "That is an ISIS fight banner cake that anyone can go purchase at Walmart … however you can't purchase a Confederate banner toy, with, similar to, say, a Dukes of Hazzard auto." (The Islamic State additionally is known as ISIL and ISIS.)
"Walmart, would you be able to please clarify why you're estranging Southern Americans with this waste that you're permitting being sold at your store while at the same point, Confederate memorabilia is not permitted?" he asks.Our gifted bread kitchen partners take pride in what they make for our clients. It's awful one client thought to exploit a partner who did not know the banner and its significance," said John Forrest Ales, a representative for Walmart. "This cake ought not have been made, and we apologize for the error."
At 10:15 p.m. ET Monday, the feature was expelled from YouTube with the announcement, "This feature has been evacuated as an infringement of YouTube's strategy against spam, tricks, and monetarily tricky substance."
A week ago, Walmart, alongside real retailers like Amazon, Ebay and Etsy, banned the offers of things advancing the Confederate fight banner available to be purchased from its stores and its site. The move came that day that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley required the expulsion of a Confederate banner from the state's Capitol grounds.
Walmart is the world's biggest retailer, with almost 11,000 stores in 28 nation
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