Mr Uncle Leroy
All Star
Home Depot, what were you thinking?
The home improvement retailer tweeted an extremely offensive -- and racist -- photo from its official @HomeDepot account on Thursday, accompanying a promo for College GameDay, which it sponsors:
The company scrambled to delete the tweet, which it called "dumb," and subsequently apologized.
"We have zero tolerance for anything so stupid and offensive," Home Depot tweeted. The company assured customers that both the marketing agency and the individual who posted the tweet have been terminated, though it didn't reveal the name of the agency.
"We’re also closely reviewing our social media procedures to determine how this could have happened, and how to ensure it never happens again," Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
As the outrage has ramped up, Home Depot has been on damage control, copy/pasting the same apology to everyone who's talking about the racist tweet:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/home-depot-racist-photo_n_4241039.html?utm_hp_ref=business
The home improvement retailer tweeted an extremely offensive -- and racist -- photo from its official @HomeDepot account on Thursday, accompanying a promo for College GameDay, which it sponsors:
The company scrambled to delete the tweet, which it called "dumb," and subsequently apologized.
"We have zero tolerance for anything so stupid and offensive," Home Depot tweeted. The company assured customers that both the marketing agency and the individual who posted the tweet have been terminated, though it didn't reveal the name of the agency.
"We’re also closely reviewing our social media procedures to determine how this could have happened, and how to ensure it never happens again," Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
As the outrage has ramped up, Home Depot has been on damage control, copy/pasting the same apology to everyone who's talking about the racist tweet:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/home-depot-racist-photo_n_4241039.html?utm_hp_ref=business
and was like, what do you expect from them. He hates that place with a passion because he's had to go James Evans on them a few times. One time we saw them give this white dude one price and they rang him up on the same item, from the same place, and expected my dad to pay full price. Even the white dude was like 
"we got these at the same time, same item" The chick was lost and her manager 
to save her, trying to argue the same. Man, my dad went off. I was like 
and my mom was like 
because she knew its was about to go down...............again. When my dad threatened to sue and go to the news, dude was like 
, and gave him the item for free
. So my dad hates them, but he will go there because he knows he can break them down. They don't want that bad publicity. Just look at that spin machine.
