[Ads-l] to flex

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 18 13:40:27 UTC 2023


'To show ostentatiously and self-servingly":

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 https://www.yahoo.com/news/admit-mainstreaming-juneteenth-disaster-023208154.html
<https://www.yahoo.com/news/admit-mainstreaming-juneteenth-disaster-023208154.html>:
Walmart just couldn’t help but pander to customers as a way to flex that
they were recognizing Black people.

JL



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