Thread: K-Mart Sells Viva La Raza T-Shirts!

The following is a blog from a local newspaper in Naples, FL that a friend of mine picked up. Almost at the bottom of the comments, someone posted the fact that K-Mart is selling "Viva La Raza" t-shirts and my friend asked for specifics and called the manager there.


When she called the manager, Ken, asking him if he had the t-shirts in stock, he admitted to selling the t-shirts to "promote ethnic pride". She said the shirts were racist and meant "Long Live the Race". He told her he didn't speak Spanish and had no idea what "viva la raza" meant. She told him she doubted he would sell t-shirts saying "Long Live the White Race" or "Long Live the Black Race".

I will post the original article and the comments from readers where she picked up on the fact that K-Mart is doing this. Then I will post a copy of the letter she sent to Sears Holding Corportation. Bruce Johnson is the CEO.

This is the original article:

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec ... ing-he-fa/

Illegal alien gets probation after admitting he faked his Naples work credentials
By AISLING SWIFT (Contact)
Originally published 11:51 a.m., Saturday, December 20, 2008
Updated 11:51 a.m., Saturday, December 20, 2008


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NAPLES — Juan Gomez Rodriguez was like many illegal immigrants who obtain a fake Social Security number and Alien Registration Number to get a job.

But 31-year-old Gomez got caught after he was injured on the job at Leo Masonry in Naples. When his employer sent him to a doctor for a shoulder injury and he received temporary disability payments, that set off a probe with state insurance investigators.

In court recently, defense attorney Erik Lombillo told Collier Circuit Judge Frank Baker the facts of the case “weren’t as egregiousâ€

The video link didnt work for me. Selling those shirts is outrageous. Its not about 'ethnic price", its racist garbage.

Originally Posted by butterbean

The video link didnt work for me. Selling those shirts is outrageous. Its not about 'ethnic price", its racist garbage.

BB...I tried the video link just now and it didn't bring up a specific video for me either. I guess I thought the most important link was the one to the news article itself. I am hoping to see a ton of letters/emails go to Sears regarding the shirts so we can get them yanked from their shelves.

Here's the right video link(it was in the article):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmwXZZmmjB8

I think Sears and Kmart are going by way of the dodo and will soon end up like Mervyn's. I thought this even before I read this article but now it seems to be confirmed. These will be two stores to watch in 2009.

Well I hope they fail!!!

I thought this even before I read this article but now it seems to be confirmed. These will be two stores to watch in 2009.

They are closing the one (K-Mart) by me and re-opening as "myGofer". It will be mostly storage and little retail space for ordering on-line and going through a driveway to pick up your goods. More on the line of what Service Merchandise was. There will be a few more opening as a test to see how it goes. Of course the employees are the last to know.....they had to sign their papers and then now hope maybe they will be re-hired under the new name. Heck I went from regular K-Mart, to Variety Outlet to K-Mart to the Big K-Mart and now it's re-named in some areas as Sears Essentials.....I missed that change. Rode the wave through every change and various positions and not ending up a bit better after years of that. Each change was less money, less hours, less benefits and to be honest...they should just hang it up. Sears tried selling those viv-la-raza t-shirts awhile back, on-line in their catalogue. We have that story here somewhere because it was right when that happened I quit shopping at Sears....

Lombillo explained that now-retired Assistant State Attorney Jerry Brock had charged Gomez with fraudulently earning $70,000 while working for Leo’s Masonry Inc. in Naples from May 31, 2001, to Jan. 31, 2007, because his documentation was fake and he wasn’t entitled to the salary.

So why wasn't Leo's Masonry charged with employing this illegal alien for 5 1/2 years????????????

Where were those T-shirts made and printed, China or in some Latin American country? If in China, that means anyone buying a Viva T-shirt are shipping their money to Asia, rather than benefitting folks back at home.

there are no more kmart in texas that i know of
and i have not seen sears in ages