John Pierpont Inclusion

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My boy is doing so well financially, I decided it was time he establish a relationship at the private banking level. After all, there’s only so much I can do to advise him, and I’d like to get some professional financial guidance into his life. We thus had a meeting with the Chase team, got all squared away, and were handed some welcoming literature when we left.

Given the target market for Chase/JP Morgan Private Banking, you’d think these little booklets would have images for garrulous gentlemen sipping scotch, smoking cigars, and having a grand old rich man’s time.

Perhaps you are unacquainted with every website, every brochure, and every piece of collateral that is produced by every financial institution in the United States. Allow me to walk you through the images in these Private Banking booklets. I shall simply describe what I see without any editorializing or further comment.

We begin with a lesbian couple happily twirling around. The one on the right appears to be pregnant. Best not to ask too many questions.
Then we’ve got a chap in a wheelchair. He’s not handicapped. He’s handy-capable.
And, of course, an intact black family (or at least one with a father at home) relaxing in his well-appointed kitchen watching his kid frolic while he is, inexplicably, dressed in a sports jacket in his own house.
And, finally, a black dude with a hipster beard holding up what evidently is one of his children (with the white gal on the right tending to their other). I can’t be sure, but the elderly female on the left portion of this photo may already be deceased.