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‘Where’d you get these checks? (boy)’ Black KC artist interrogated over big bank deposit
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The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Fri, March 18, 2022, 3:00 AM
If you still don’t understand why businesses need diversity training, meet Black Kansas City artist who was humiliated on Tuesday at the , where he has been a customer for about 40 years.
He drove up to the bank’s drive-thru window to deposit several checks. But instead of a courteous “How are you today?” the question the teller had was this one: “Where did you get these checks?”
This was not even the first time this has happened to him at his bank. Seven months earlier, Smith attempted to deposit three checks, including one that had been signed over to him and another that was for a large amount from a major television studio.
The teller at Security Bank’s Central Avenue branch told Smith he could not deposit the first check unless the person who had signed it over was present. Then she asked where he got the TV check. The name of the studio was clearly printed on the check.
"We don't need no stinking race relation studies!"
Instagram/haroldsmithart
The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Fri, March 18, 2022, 3:00 AM
If you still don’t understand why businesses need diversity training, meet Black Kansas City artist who was humiliated on Tuesday at the , where he has been a customer for about 40 years.
He drove up to the bank’s drive-thru window to deposit several checks. But instead of a courteous “How are you today?” the question the teller had was this one: “Where did you get these checks?”
This was not even the first time this has happened to him at his bank. Seven months earlier, Smith attempted to deposit three checks, including one that had been signed over to him and another that was for a large amount from a major television studio.
The teller at Security Bank’s Central Avenue branch told Smith he could not deposit the first check unless the person who had signed it over was present. Then she asked where he got the TV check. The name of the studio was clearly printed on the check.
"We don't need no stinking race relation studies!"
