Tuesday, June 22, 2004 :::
I was recently wondering about Mayor Daley's successor. We would miss his arrogance and self-importance I thought; perhaps we should elect Father Pfleger after Daley, for whatever reason, leaves.Well, lo and behold, Father Pfleger has been the gleeful recipient of yet new attention in the news media. From FoxNews, A bank branch on the high-crime south side of Chicago is accused of being racist because it requires customers to go through a metal detector on their way into the building, reports ABC7.... The Rev. Michael Pleger of Saint Sabina Catholic Church called the situation, "pure racism, racial profiling, black while banking, it's stereotyping, it's sending every negative message you can send." If you click through to the ABC7 report, you may eventually see that Despite the protest, some customers said the security system make them feel safer and prefer having the extra security when doing their banking."I like it. It makes me feel good that I don't have to worry about somebody coming in on me and maybe robbing the bank or something," said Milton Maynes, Bank One customer. In fact, on a local public affairs show last week, it was indicated that this view seemed to be that of a majority of the customers.Many large banks simply won't open branches in these neighborhoods; I hope Bank One doesn't let media hungry people like Pfleger to make it impossible to do business there.
::: posted by dWj at 7:04 PM
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