Posted on 01/16/2012 2:55:39 PM PST by upchuck
After a Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at Burlington’s City Hall Contois Auditorium Monday, about a dozen demonstrators marched on the TD Bank branch just down the street to protest the bank’s opening on the holiday.
The marchers briefly gathered in front of the bank, then tried to enter. Moments after the group arrived, Patrick Brown, director of the Burlington Multicultural Resource Center, said he would hand leaflets to bank tellers protesting the bank’s hours Monday. The leaflet read: “Dear TD Bank, you are defying the King holiday. Shame, Shame, Shame. This is a racist act. Shame, Shame, Shame.
More info at the Burlington Free Press which can't be posted on FR, their loss.
Time to lock and load!!
Time to lock and load!!
Time to lock and load!!
Funny how they chose a bank. I din’t see any business in my area closed for Martin Luther King Day. Grocery stores, hardware stores, home stores, restaurants, etc. all open normal hours.
It is because of things like this I don’t believe anyone when they pull the race card.
When we eat chicken, my wife doesn’t like the dark meat. I think it means she’s racist. ;)
Wonder if they picketed KFC
Morons...these race whores see racism everywhere, enough already!
TD Bank is our bank. Like them and like them more now.
Martin Luther King lived in America.
These assclowns think they live in North Korea or Cuba...
It’s an election year, anything and everything is potentially racist. Cue Jesse Jackson.
I wonder how much these federal holidays cost us. Gotta figure, there are a lot of federal employees getting the day off with pay and they’ve made sure they’re all on Monday so they do get the day off.
The day is fast approaching where there will be a black version of “The Red Guards.”
TD Bank took over my local bank last year. At the time it irked me. Big bank takeover of small banks. Corporatism, cronyism, all that stuff, yada yada yada.
Well, I have appreciated the fact that they have more open hours - Saturdays for instance, and some holidays. Like today. And now that I know the NAACP has marched on a TD Bank for being open on MLK Day, I believe I will keep my account there. Not because I disrespect MLK. While I may not have agreed with his ideology as a whole, his accomplishments to bring true liberty to Black Americans is inarguable. But to tick off the NAACP for besmerching his memory by abusing it to bully businesses and other races and communities to submit to their agenda.
No, NAACP, we don’t bow to you. Thank you, TD Bank for setting a standard. I hope the way YOU honor Dr. King’s memory catches on, and supplants the way the NAACP SHAMES it.
and if bank doesn’t grant a home lone they’re redlining and if they give a loan to someone without the means to repay, they’re predatory lenders.
does that about cover it?
In Michigan today, Al Sharpton was protesting our “racist” emergency financial manager law outside Governor Snyder’s house.
Amen, patriot preacher.
I've posted this in another thread and I think it merits another mention here.
As a young, idealistic (and utterly naive) college student in the early 1960's, I was actually a card-carrying, dues-paying member of the NAACP. For several months, I actually believed in that organization. Reality finally set in as I learned more about it from within the belly of the beast. It was a Communist outfit from the very top to the bottom. I ultimately transferred to a Conservative Christian college and fled from my dalliance with the NAACP, returning to my roots and actively campaigned and voted for AuH20 in the 1964 race. I will forever regret supporting the utterly racist, totally corrupt NAACP during my brief era of youthful ignorance.
How did he get a holiday to start with and a Mao statue on the mall and a whole damn black month.
TD Bank? That’s Toronto Dominion Bank, a CANADIAN bank you clowns and a business. Almost every company here in L.A. is open except for the union-controlled post office and library.
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