The store owners would be prudent in closing up, going elsewhere, where their lives are not so much in jeopardy and telling the Philadelphia "Community" what it can go due with itself! m/r
Multiracial Fails: Bulletproof Glass in Philadelphia
Anonymous Attorney December 18, 2017
The Philadelphia city council has just passed a rule forcing store owners to pull down their bulletproof windows.[Philadelphia City Council approves bill to remove bulletproof glass from storefronts, Fox News, December 14, 2017]
You’ve seen them: at bodegas, convenience marts and ratty Chinese
takeout places all across our finer urban areas, a thick layer of
Plexiglass (or whatever the bulletproof material is) separates the
customer from the cashier.
It’s ugly, to be sure. The idea is to prevent the all-to-common stickup.
But Councilwoman Cindy Bass, who is black, takes offense. It hurts black feelings to do business through the Plexiglass, because it reminds black people of the fact that they commit most of the stick-ups.
Never mind that the store owners are trying to save their own lives. ...
-go to links-
It’s ugly, to be sure. The idea is to prevent the all-to-common stickup.
But Councilwoman Cindy Bass, who is black, takes offense. It hurts black feelings to do business through the Plexiglass, because it reminds black people of the fact that they commit most of the stick-ups.
Never mind that the store owners are trying to save their own lives. ...
-go to links-
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