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Wichita, Kansas, is not a good town
For trying to bank if your skin is brown.
Wichitans for this can thank
The idiots at the Emprise Bank.
When Sattar Ali presented a check
From the sale of his house, it unleashed all heck:
Fifteen police cars descended,
The entire family apprehended.
His wife and his teenage daughter
Would show up on the police blotter
For waiting in the car outside.
Handcuffed, all three petrified,
The Alis were by the police detained;
The reasons why were not explained.
Three hours at the station house they spent,
A form of false imprisonment.
And maybe just to be more cruel
The authorities pulled their son from school.
Mr. Ali had asked to deposit,
Not to cash, the check, but because it
Was as it happened a tidy sum,
With terror the teller was overcome,
Unable even to verify it.
Incompetence? Maybe, but I don't buy it.
Just Kansas hate for an Arab name:
That's where I would lay the blame.
A movement's afoot in Wichita
For Emprise's customers to withdraw
All their money from that institution:
Sounds like a pretty fair solution.
And Sattar Ali is going to sue.
So would I. Wouldn't you?