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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Civil rights leader Andrew Young resigned as chairman of a group intended to boost Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s image after he made remarks to a newspaper disparaging Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners.
Young told the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African-American newspaper, that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years, "selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables," The New York Times said.
In a statement posted on the Working Families for Wal-Mart Web site on Thursday, Young apologized for his remarks and asked for forgiveness from those who he offended.
"I recently made some comments about former store owners in my neighborhood that were completely and utterly inappropriate," the statement said.
"Those comments run contrary to everything I have dedicated my life to."...
-that sounds familiar
Civil rights icon resigns from Wal-Mart group
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