Saturday, August 30, 2003
 
Even the NFL Outlaws Orchestrated Celebrations

As St. Louis "Football" Fans know, the NFL no longer allows players to gather in the end zone like a string of can-can girls to taunt the opposing team with a revue designed to show their potence at scoring touchdowns.

However, that's not the case for civil rights activists. This week here in St. Louis, a bunch of people gathered outside a bank where they successfully protested forty years ago. The celebration included picketing the bank for old time's sake.

Of course, to the passersby, it looked like some group was picketing the bank for current grievances, not shouting the old-timers' equivalent of boo-yeah for previous picketorial success. So anyone who remains influenced by a picket line -- which is probably limited to members of the Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Sprinklerfitters union that promotes itself during Cardinals ballgames and to Dick Gephardt-- probably wouldn't go into the bank, which forty years ago capitulated to --I mean, negotiated a comprise with-- the protesters. It looked like the bank had done something offensive, insensitive, or anti-proletariat now.

So let this be an object lesson to those who would alter their business practices to suit the agitators in the community. Even if you give up and give in or, infrequently, better your business at the behest of activists, you're just setting yourself up for triumphant returns and celebrations in the future (if you're lucky) or repeated shakedowns, I mean bilateral communication of community concerns if you're not.

- posted by Brian J. @ 4:58 PM
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