Walmart denies Confederate flag cake, accepts ISIS cake request

Walmart is apologizing for the bakery in one of their Louisiana stores fulfilled the order for a cake of the ISIS battle flag on it.

Local customer Chuck Netzhammer said that he originally ordered a cake from his local Walmart Bakery in Slidell, Louisiana with the image of the confederate flag with the words, “Heritage, Not Hate,” but the bakery denied his request, according to ABC News.

Last week, Walmart along with many other companies like Amazon, Etsy and eBay announced they would not longer be selling items with the Confederate Flag on them. This decision came swiftly after the fatal shooting of nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina by an apparently racist gunman who was seen in photos wearing images of the Confederate flag.

Upset by Walmart’s decision not to make his cake, Netzhammer returned to a Walmart Bakery the following day requesting a cake with the ISIS battle flag on it.

“I went back yesterday and managed to get an ISIS battleflag printed. ISIS happens to be somebody who we’re fighting against right now who are killing our men and boys overseas and are beheading Christians,” Netzhammer said.

Walmart has apologized for the printing of the ISIS cake, claiming that the bakery staff was unaware of the meaning of the image requested.

“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.”

Netzhammer made a YouTube video after receiving the ISIS cake with no problem, asking Walmart for an explanation on how they are supporting ISIS but not the Confederate flag.

“That’s an ISIS battleflag cake that anybody can go buy at Walmart,” Netzhammer explains in a video posted on YouTube showing the sheetcake. “But you can’t buy a Confederate flag toy, with like, say, a ‘Dukes of Hazzards’ car.”

Regarding the recent ban of any Confederate image last week, Walmart made a statement.

“We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer,” Walmart said in a statement last week as it announced the ban. “We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the Confederate flag from our assortment — whether in our stores or on our web site.”

The banning of the Confederate flag image was supported by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley who requested the removal of the flag from the state capitol in Columbia after the recent massacre.

 

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