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diabeticman

(3,121 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:39 PM Mar 2015

'Exclusively for white people' stickers put on Austin stores

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusively-white-people-stickers-put-austin-stores-215914029.html


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Employees at several Austin businesses have found stickers saying "exclusively for white people" placed on their windows, sparking an investigation into their origin and condemnation from the mayor.

Mayor Steve Adler said the stickers discovered Wednesday morning were "an appalling and offensive display of ignorance in our city."

The stickers also say "Maximum of 5 colored customers / colored BOH staff accepted," apparently referring to the "back of house" operations at a restaurant. They featured a city of Austin logo and claimed to be "sponsored by the City of Austin Contemporary Partition and Restoration Program," though no such program exists. The city has said the use of its logo was unauthorized.

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This is getting scary
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Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)
1. I dispute the mayor's characterization that this is "ignorance."
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:43 PM
Mar 2015

That which is done with malice aforethought is not done in ignorance.

kelly1mm

(4,719 posts)
6. It is an anti-gentrification protest. They are saying that gentrification is making
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 05:05 PM
Mar 2015

the area 'whites-only'.

misguided, not malicious.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
4. Someone went through some trouble getting those made
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:47 PM
Mar 2015

Hmmm. I wonder what's going on there. It doesn't seem typical to KKK types. Maybe more ironic? Like someone is making a comment on racism in the area?

TexasMommaWithAHat

(3,212 posts)
5. IF this is in protest against gentrification
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:50 PM
Mar 2015

The makers of this sticker sure are in keeping with the Austin saying "Keep Austin Weird."

Seems ridiculous.

Lancero

(2,980 posts)
7. Some are saying it's a 'protest'...
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 05:09 PM
Mar 2015

But that brings the question - Which group is doing the protesting? Is it done by those seeking equality, as a 'in your face' style protest? Or by those sympathetic to the KKK who want a return to the old days?

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