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Racial Incidents at Sunoco Spark Community Protests
Community members gathered
at the Sunoco Gas Station at Bancroft and Ashland on
Saturday afternoon, December 7 to protest an alleged series
of incidents that resulted in humiliating encounters between
the station’s employees and customers.
Several customers were the
subject of racial insults said the protesters who had been
objecting to the incidents since the previous Monday.
“Don’t give them your
money,” chanted several of the protesters as they repeated
the slurs.
While some cars did turn
aside and decline to enter the station, the number of autos
at the pump was steady throughout – virtually all of the
customers were African American.
“There are those who have
no idea that they have no idea,” said Washington Muhammad,
as he engaged in conversation about the reasons for the
action and the numbers of customers ignoring his group’s
appeals to their consciences. “I’m trying to appeal to the
ones who are warming up to the idea that we have to do
something for ourselves, and that we should.”
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