barnes & noble under heavy fire from obama display

[gtc08]

2009 and some people still classify this stuff as a joke?

Official statement from Barnes & Noble, Inc.:

Barnes & Noble would like to publicly apologize for what happened in our Coral Gables, Florida store. We believe that a customer played a cruel joke and placed an inappropriate title in the front window of our store, where we were featuring books written by or about President Obama. We want to assure our customers that the book placed by someone other than our booksellers was never intended to be included in our display and was removed as soon as we became aware of the situation. We are looking into it and are taking the steps necessary so that it does not happen again. From time to time customers will move titles from one area of the store to another. In this particular case, we do not condone whatever message may have been intended with the placement of this title in our Presidential display. It certainly was not part of our merchandising and we regret that we didn’t see the placement of this title immediately.

Mary Ellen Keating, Spokesperson
Barnes & Noble, Inc. ​

 

[Coldweather]

This be outrageous behavior again. You can't equate black people to monkeys. This is wrong and bad. This here display should never be tolerated. Waite till the Reverent Al. walks into that there bookstore he will put a stop to that crap.

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[kingbill]

had to have been a customer...

 

[RobFunk]

Probably some teenager

 

[gtc08]

how the hell do you get in that display though? as you can see be the reflection, its in a glass display to be viewed by people on the street.

 

[RobFunk]

how the hell do you get in that display though? as you can see be the reflection, its in a glass display to be viewed by people on the street.

Thats what I was wondering. Probably some kid that works there.

 

[tiznow]

i'm sure books involving bush and monkeys have been placed in close proximity to each other by customers or work staff in book stores over the previous 8 years

but stuff such as that would never makes the news or press....because dubya is a white dude

race issues in this country is hilarous

people so fucking sensitive

one little thing gets blown up into this huge deal

 

[gtc08]

i'm sure books involving bush and monkeys have been placed in close proximity to each other by customers or work staff in book stores over the previous 8 years

but stuff such as that would never makes the news or press....because dubya is a white dude

race issues in this country is hilarous

people so fucking sensitive

one little thing gets blown up into this huge deal

do you know the history of this country and the associations that have been linked between blacks and monkeys? this is obvious racism, whether you accept it or not.

 

[asufan550]

2009 and some people still classify this stuff as a joke?

Official statement from Barnes & Noble, Inc.:

Barnes & Noble would like to publicly apologize for what happened in our Coral Gables, Florida store. We believe that a customer played a cruel joke and placed an inappropriate title in the front window of our store, where we were featuring books written by or about President Obama. We want to assure our customers that the book placed by someone other than our booksellers was never intended to be included in our display and was removed as soon as we became aware of the situation. We are looking into it and are taking the steps necessary so that it does not happen again. From time to time customers will move titles from one area of the store to another. In this particular case, we do not condone whatever message may have been intended with the placement of this title in our Presidential display. It certainly was not part of our merchandising and we regret that we didn’t see the placement of this title immediately.

Mary Ellen Keating, Spokesperson
Barnes & Noble, Inc. ​

LMFAO that's fucking great.
Take a joke and get off your high horses, people.

 

[billhill999]

Just as tasteless as Whoopi's Bush and Dick jokes.

 

[gtc08]

im just trying to figure out a way if someone could have gotten in the display somehow. it'd take a lot of work, but if it was an open enclosure from the top you could get in. what a waste of time though and it accomplishes nothing.

 

[nhoj]

It made national news I wouldn't call that a waste of time. May of pissed off a couple hundred thousand people i wouldn't call that a waste of time. Same as a computer virus.

im just trying to figure out a way if someone could have gotten in the display somehow. it'd take a lot of work, but if it was an open enclosure from the top you could get in. what a waste of time though and it accomplishes nothing.

 

[Mistermj]

do you know the history of this country and the associations that have been linked between blacks and monkeys? this is obvious racism, whether you accept it or not.

Kind of funny ....but gtc just showed us HIS racism.

I see books about Obama and one about a monkey..no relation...no big deal.

Gtc seems to think of Obama as a monkey...@)

 

[barman]

i'm sure books involving bush and monkeys have been placed in close proximity to each other by customers or work staff in book stores over the previous 8 years

Chimps are not monkeys

:grandmais

 

[gtc08]

Kind of funny ....but gtc just showed us HIS racism.

I see books about Obama and one about a monkey..no relation...no big deal.

Gtc seems to think of Obama as a monkey...@)

you need to read us history and the comparisons made between blacks and monkeys young en. he could've chose any animal, there is a reason why he chose a monkey as oblivious as you want to make it seem.

 

[barman]

So now we know for sure it was a He who jacked up the window display?

 

[whalewager]

Blacks say whites smell like wet dogs...that aint right neither

 

[gtc08]

So now we know for sure it was a He who jacked up the window display?

this has male all over it. a female wouldn't resort to something this stupid.

if it was a customer i still have no idea how they would get in that enclosure. put it this way, you'd have to be real dedicated to pull that off, which also says something incredibly disturbing about the individual.

 

[Mistermj]

you need to read us history and the comparisons made between blacks and monkeys young en. he could've chose any animal, there is a reason why he chose a monkey as oblivious as you want to make it seem.

It's still obvious that you seem to think of blacks as monkeys...otherwise there wasn't any need to draw attention to this.

Most of us only saw books of Obama and a book with a chimp on it.

You kind of ratted yourself out here gtc...@)

 

[joelatti]

Barnes and Noble stinks anyway......Amazon sells more books for better prices.......They deserve what they get IMHO