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Over the past three years, Wal-Mart has set up minority scholarships for journalism at various universities, and in May Wal-Mart underwrote a documentary, on black soldiers who served in segregated units in different wars, that appeared on TV-ONE, a small cable channel geared to African Americans...
...Wal-Mart also inserted itself into political races, to the unions' great irritation. The company donated money to the campaigns of black Congressmen Harold Ford, Charles Rangel and Albert Wynn. And after Wal-Mart gave a lunch for a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus, a small brouhaha between labor and the black caucus erupted. The Service Employees International Union fired off a letter accusing the Representatives of betraying labor. The head of the caucus, Democratic Congressman Mel Watt of North Carolina, bristled at the criticism. "I'm not defending them--I think a lot of their practices...
...even the willingness of top black politicians to meet with a corporation that only last year was lambasted by Democratic presidential candidates shows that the lines of battle are shifting. In Chicago the unions tarred Wal-Mart with criticism that 10 years earlier would have rallied black leadership against the company. Many of those opposing Wal-Mart in Chicago were black, but the presence of an equal--or greater--number of black supporters took the subject of race off the table. To the extent that it was a topic, race worked to Wal-Mart's favor in that...
...community meeting on the South Side in May, according to the Tribune, Wal-Mart presented Eugene Morris, who runs an advertising firm in Chicago, to offer an endorsement. Morris praised Wal-Mart, noting that the company had brought him $20 million in business. Alton Murphy, a black district manager for Wal-Mart, assured the audience that most of the jobs would be local. "You won't go in and pay your hard-earned money to someone who doesn't look like you," Murphy told the crowd...
Store builder Garner is unconcerned with Wal-Mart's corporate critics. "I think when you're the biggest and the best at what you do, people want to come after you," she says. Before Garner scored her contract with Wal-Mart, she flew to Wal-Mart's head office in Bentonville, Ark. Garner was on her own personal fact-finding mission. She had read much of the press on Wal-Mart and concluded that the company had got a raw deal. She returned convinced that Wal-Mart could be a great partner for the black community. "You know what...