A man who wanted to make a point in Slidell, Lousiana today made a point. According to Yahoo! News, Chuck Netzhammer placed an order for a sheetcake with the image of a Confederate flag and the words "Heritage Not Hate" printed on it. His local Walmart denied the request—as per Walmart's initiative to remove all Confederate merchandise from their stores.
So Netzhammer came back to the store with another request: a cake with an image of the ISIS flag on it. Netzhammer describes that cake as being "cheerfully" made by Walmart staff in the description of the YouTube video he uploaded detailing his outrage.
"ISIS happens to be somebody who we're fighting against right now who are killing our men and boys overseas and are beheading Christians," says Netzhammer in his video. He adds, "That's an ISIS battleflag cake that anybody can go buy at Walmart. But you can't buy a Confederate flag toy, with like, say, a Dukes of Hazzards car."
A spokesperson for Walmart responded to the mix-up: "An associate in a local store did not know what the design meant and made a mistake. The cake should not have been made, and we apologize."
"So Walmart, can you please explain why you are alienating Southern Americans with this trash that you are allowing to sold?" Netzhammer asks in his video. The answer, for Mr. Netzhammer, clearly does not involve "because you asked them to make that trash for you."
[via Yahoo!]
