Bake that Cake!
A Walmart in Georgia reverses itself, after originally refusing to design a retirement cake with the police flag and words "Blue Lives Matter." The court of public opinion, and independent commerce, nudges back...
Walmart is apologizing for refusing to make a police officer’s retirement cake last week after an employee told the cop’s daughter that her “thin blue line” cake design might be considered racist.(I just spotted those flags* -- coming soon to a community near you -- in my Illinois hometown when I was home a few weeks back. Had to ask what it meant. The ones with a red stripe are in honor of firefighters. Quite a few hanging in our neighborhood. Silent support.)
The police officer’s daughter, who has remained anonymous, told radio host Todd Starnes that she went to a Walmart in McDonough, Georgia on Thursday to ask for a cake with the American flag in black and white with a blue stripe added in.
But one of the employees at the bakery balked at the common police officer emblem, telling the woman “the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” she recounted to Starnes. When she asked for a simpler cake, with just one blue line on a chocolate background, the employee said she didn’t “feel comfortable” with that design either.
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* Thought the neighbor's American flag had the colors washed out!
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