Overstock.com founder: how to win minority friends and influence people

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NAACP wants apology from Overstock.com founder
By Jennifer W. Sanchez
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 10/26/2007 08:33:50 PM MDT

Posted: 8:25 PM- The NAACP is demanding a public apology from Overstock.com founder and CEO Patrick Byrne for saying minority students who do not graduate from high school might as well be burned or thrown away.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Salt Lake City chapter leaders and other community members organized a news conference Friday to call for Byrne to apologize and to refrain from using terms such as "burn" when referring to kids.

Byrne didn't apologize Friday. He said he said nothing wrong and his comment is being distorted.

"It's worse than a cheap shot. It's a lie. Somebody is trying to create the implication See the video

See the video at http://www.youtube.com/user/shockedandappauled

I said the exact opposite of what I said in that answer," Byrne said.

Byrne was part of a school voucher debate earlier this month in Provo when he made the comment. He was talking about the failure of public schools when it comes to the graduation rate of minority students, and the critical link between education and success in life. A clip of the debate with Byrne's comment was posted on the Web site YouTube.

Jeanetta Williams, NAACP Salt Lake branch president, said she's upset that Byrne would single out minority kids when there are white students who also do not graduate from high school.

"It's saying to them, 'If you can not achieve . . . then you have no worth in society," she said later in an interview.


http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7292445



Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, pictured, rejected the NAACP's demand for an apology after a video surfaced in which he allegedly said "You may as well burn those kids," referring to high school dropouts. Byrne said his comments were edited out of context.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-27-overstock-naacp_N.htm

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