A Civil Rights Lesson You Can Take To The Bank
In Austin, Texas, black and white churches
have determined that, in their words, Wells Fargo is the only bank in town really trying to develop minority business. So they're urging black congregations, white congregations, and all of the members of all churches in Austin to put their money in this bank.“I'm not asking for affirmative action; I'm not asking for favoritism,” said Rev. Joseph Parker, Jr., of the David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. “I'm saying, ‘We have money; deal with me as an equal, based on the money that we have in your banks.”
If civil rights leaders and their liberal friends would stop “asking for affirmative action ... for favoritism” and return to the demand to be treated as equal, civil rights would be, and would deserve to be, much more popular than it is.
If they continue down the favoritism road, they can expect more and more Michigan-like roadblocks.