TELL WALMART TO STOP THIS DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE
Management at Norfolk Walmart Supercenter and Suffolk Walmart Supercenters
Three Walmart stores in Virginia are locking up only African American hair products.
You’ll notice in the pictures that other hair products have no additional security. What kind of message does this send to Walmart’s workforce, 46% of whom is African American? What kind of message does this send to the surrounding communities, which are roughly 40% African American?
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To:
Management at Norfolk Walmart Supercenter and Suffolk Walmart Supercenters
From:
[Your Name]
We have observed your stores using extra security on African American hair products.
Other hair products, for non-African American hair, remain free of such restrictions. We are writing to tell you this discriminatory practice must stop. Locking up only these products sends a hurtful and insensitive message to Walmart employees and customers, as well as Virginians in the surrounding communities that, frankly, African Americans are more likely to steal such products than their white counterparts.
We understand that crime has been a problem at Walmarts across the country. This is not the way to decrease crime. As Suffolk City Council Member Curtis Milteer, Sr., told us: “Walmart has the right to protect their merchandise, but if there is discrimination, it should be corrected.”
We ask that you institute meaningful changes to staffing and security, and end this discrimination.