Austin Mayor Steve Adler: ‘White people’ stickers appalling, offensive

[KamaAina]

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/crime-law/exclusively-for-white-people-stickers-found-on-sug/nkY7f/

Employees at two East Austin businesses arrived to work on Wednesday morning to find stickers plastered on the buildings that declared they were “exclusively for white people.”

“Maximum of 5 colored customers/colored BOH staff accepted,” the stickers stated, referring to the “back of house” operations at a restaurant.

The stickers also feature a City of Austin logo and state that the message is “sponsored by the City of Austin Contemporary Partition and Restoration Program.”...

“Today we were the victim of what I consider to be a hate crime against our family and staff at our Eastside location,” the post states. “Our business was built on family and love and we will let that shine on.”

And this is the same area where a Latino business was razed by its landlord, who referred to the tenants as "roaches"!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026381467

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Even in Austin there are no-neck assholes.

[shenmue]

2. I can't take it

If anyone asks, I'm going to live on the Moon.

[Warpy]

6. I'm ready to buy land on a mountain here, dig a well,

build an earthship into the side of the hill, and be a complete hermit with a hydroponic garden and a mailbox half a mile away.

Then again, I live in the city and I'm a complete hermit.

Still, the gun battle between two cars on the next street over last night was nerve wracking and I wouldn't have to put up with that shit in the boonies.

[shenmue]

10. You might.

I live in a small town and you'd be surprised.

[Warpy]

11. I'm not talking about a small town

I'm talking about the boonies you only find out west and in Alaska.

[Gman]

3. Some folks are saying the sticker is actually a protest

Against the gentrification of east Austin. I tend to agree.

[melman]

7. Absolutely

It is pretty obvious.

[geek tragedy]

8. well, then they get the "heckuva job, brownie" award nt

[AverageJoe90]

13. I dunno.....

It was a hell of a poor way to go about it, if so, but this smells more like an example of pure IRL trolling to me, though, TBH.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Speaking of trolling.......

[riversedge]

4. The city has also concluded that the businesses that were defaced with the stickers neither made nor

this is a sick joke.

The city has also concluded that the businesses that were defaced with the stickers neither made nor knowingly displayed them, according to the statement.

1:30 p.m. update: Stickers that have appeared on at least six East Austin businesses declaring that they are “exclusively for white people” have now drawn the attention of the NAACP and a state lawmaker.




+‘White people’ stickers in East Austin criticized by Dawnna Dukes photo
Rodolfo Gonzalez

April Jensen, an employee at Sugar Mama's, holds a sticker that the business found on the front of its store on ... read more









Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, took to Facebook to post a photograph of one of the stickers affixed to a window at Rare Trends, a clothing store on East 12th Street.

“Some jokes are not funny,” she wrote. “If this is a joke at all, it is tasteless. … I will be damned if this will occur in my House District … in this historical black community or any community.”

[lpbk2713]

5. "Colored people"

I didn't think that description had been used in 50 years or so.
But then, I don't live in Texas.

[Initech]

9. What decade are we living in? 2015 or 1865?

[AverageJoe90]

12. *sigh*. The stupidity never ends, does it?

It's almost like these folks, posting these stickers, were from a goddamn time warp, ya know? This is 2015, not 1915.....

[kelly1mm]

14. it is a protest against gentrification. The protesters are saying that the city of Austin is

promoting a "whites only" city and is complicent in the removal of black/brown/low income residents.

Maybe not the best form of protest if it has to be explained.....

[AverageJoe90]

15. Even if that was true, it doesn't make the expression that much less stupid, TBH.

Maybe not the best form of protest if it has to be explained.....

Agreed on that, if nothing else; there really are better ways to go about protest than just pissing people off with what's essentially IRL trolling.

[Lancero]

16. People are saying it's a protest...

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?

[Matrosov]

17. Welcome to the South

Where too many still want to party like it's 1860.

[MohRokTah]

19. Mark this overt racist behavior well.

The same overt misogynistic behavior will be on display in 2023 during the last two years of Hillary Clinton's administration.

[Dr. Strange]

21. Well, now that they know who did it...

let's see if the Mayor does anything.