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A Hairdresser, a Hijab, and a ‘Hate Crime’

July 1, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Mary Jackson
LBR
2008-07-12 05:00:01

Take this one in! I wasn’t able to get to my bank because of work. My hours and the bank hours just didn’t align so I jumped onto the Internet and jumped over to their website and found a closer bank location. It wasn’t in “Bad” section just an older part of town so off I went. I opened the door and walked up to the counter. No waiting… This was strange because any trip to my bank always resulted in waiting in line. I have two bank cards, one for Checking and another for Savings. I made little marks on the backs of the cards so I could tell them apart and was trying to find my mark and then I looked up and all I saw was 2 eyeballs. The bank clerk was dressed head to toe in a black robe with only her eye’s showing. I took my checks out of her fingers and started to walk out the bank when an older woman walked over and wanted to know why I was leaving. I gave her a nasty look and walked out. Two days later I moved my money to a local owned bank. The following week at our local Wal-Mart if you lucked out and got in the “wrong” line you were unable to buy pork products. You could either grab all your items and place them back in your cart and find another line to stand in again or throw your pork items on the floor. Then a blind woman leaving the airport with her dog was denied a cab because of her dog is unclean. Federal laws allowing assist dogs access didn’t matter. Now they want to take tax money to build foot baths for the taxi drivers. When a reporter asked if these baths would be open to everyone the answer was ‘No’. It then came out that more of these foot baths were going to be built. It wasn’t just a little bit of money that was going to be used and not just in an area for the taxi drivers. All this in a town that won’t allow a christmas tree at Christmas. They even renamed it “Sparkletime”. Schools can’t have cookies with either green or red icing.