PROTEST AT BANK ONE - 'Black While Banking'

"Our response is, then, get out of the community,'' said the Rev. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Catholic Church. "We don't want  you at any cost. The cost for this is insult and stereotyping. This is about to become the second-largest bank in America. We don't need them to come in and insult people. Go back downtown.''
Protestors demand an apology from Bank One in Chicago. They say a security policy at one branch on the city's South Side is racist and needs to be changed. Customers must enter the bank at 81st and South Cottage Grove one person at a time and pass through a metal detector. Since the branch opened in April, there has been growing concern that customers in this neighborhood  are not being treated like customers in other parts of town. "It's pure racism, racial profiling, black while banking, it's stereotyping, it's sending every negative message you can send and doing it in the name of corporate," said Rev. Michael Pleger. [more] and [more]

•  [The Federal Reserve recently approved the merger between JP Morgan Chase and Bank One, forming the nation's second-largest bank with more than $1 trillion in assets.]
  

• [Bank One recently admitted it may have benefited from its  ties to  Slavery]
• [J.P. Morgan Chase also recently admitted it may have benefited from its ties to Slavery]