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In reply to the discussion: When a Racist Restaurant Opens on the Edge of Campus, What Is a University's Responsibility? [View all]Heeeeers Johnny
(423 posts)97. Owner/founder sounds more like a progressive type.
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Illegal Petes is involved in several facets of community involvement, including charity fund raisers like the Smother Autism campaign in April 2012,[7] which raised money for The Joshua School, a Colorado-based, non-profit educational therapeutic day treatment center for children with an autism spectrum disorder and related developmental disabilities, or the award-winning Petes Pints campaigns,[8] which raise money for local bands.
In September 2010, Illegal Petes started the Starving Artist program,[9] which feeds out-of-town musicians for free at Illegal Petes when they come through Denver or Boulder to play a show. Illegal Petes was voted as the Best Place to Eat and Hang Out with Rock Stars[10] by the annual Best of Westword of 2011. Illegal Petes began throwing Starving Artist SXSW showcases[11] in Austin in March 2011. Pete Turner was featured in a front page article of the Denver Post[12] on businesses spending marketing money on representing Denver at SXSW.
In July 2011, Illegal Petes launched Greater Than artist collective,[13] a non-traditional record label that works with Colorado bands. The label was the brain child of Pete Turner and Suburban Home Records owner for 17 years, Virgil Dickerson. Currently signed to the label[14] are Denver darkwave band Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, cello prog pop songwriter Ian Cooke, active rock Denver darlings The Epilogues, the belovedly crass comedian Ben Roy, and most recently the solo work of Paper Bird songstress Esmé Patterson.
Illegal Petes is involved in several facets of community involvement, including charity fund raisers like the Smother Autism campaign in April 2012,[7] which raised money for The Joshua School, a Colorado-based, non-profit educational therapeutic day treatment center for children with an autism spectrum disorder and related developmental disabilities, or the award-winning Petes Pints campaigns,[8] which raise money for local bands.
In September 2010, Illegal Petes started the Starving Artist program,[9] which feeds out-of-town musicians for free at Illegal Petes when they come through Denver or Boulder to play a show. Illegal Petes was voted as the Best Place to Eat and Hang Out with Rock Stars[10] by the annual Best of Westword of 2011. Illegal Petes began throwing Starving Artist SXSW showcases[11] in Austin in March 2011. Pete Turner was featured in a front page article of the Denver Post[12] on businesses spending marketing money on representing Denver at SXSW.
In July 2011, Illegal Petes launched Greater Than artist collective,[13] a non-traditional record label that works with Colorado bands. The label was the brain child of Pete Turner and Suburban Home Records owner for 17 years, Virgil Dickerson. Currently signed to the label[14] are Denver darkwave band Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, cello prog pop songwriter Ian Cooke, active rock Denver darlings The Epilogues, the belovedly crass comedian Ben Roy, and most recently the solo work of Paper Bird songstress Esmé Patterson.
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When a Racist Restaurant Opens on the Edge of Campus, What Is a University's Responsibility? [View all]
marmar
Nov 2015
OP
The university can express its disapproval and say that they deplore the restaurant's racist name.
Nye Bevan
Nov 2015
#3
They can also state that no university $$ will be spent there (i.e., catering, business meetings)
Gormy Cuss
Nov 2015
#124
Hmmph. Next you'll me telling me that a "Meximelt" is not a traditional, authentic Mexican dish (nt)
Nye Bevan
Nov 2015
#19
White owned is an issue because this is a white privilege country. Sounds like the owners
randys1
Nov 2015
#115
Of course I said I didnt know if they were racists assholes, that possibly they were liberals trying
randys1
Nov 2015
#155
This is in Arizona, I thought. If it is a chain, and if the name truly has nothing to do with
randys1
Nov 2015
#222
AS a progressive, if I have made a mistake (although I didnt categorically call anyone
randys1
Nov 2015
#225
Actually, in one aspect, this chain is quite progressive, they post what they pay their employees...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#56
Fuck, I actually want to work there, and I worked retail and fast food, it fucking sucks, but at...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#68
True, but compared to most restaurants and people who work in them, especially chains, its on the...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#76
I wonder who is more outraged here. Those who suspect the restaurant may be using a
randys1
Nov 2015
#159
Faux outrage of the usual suspects. Translation: liberals who point out racism
randys1
Nov 2015
#165
So...you'd have to have a family member named "Pete" to make the connection? (nt)
jeff47
Nov 2015
#188
Since much of my family IS HISPANIC, I'd have to at least see that it was common.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#191
And if they are that curious they can stop in for a beer or read about it here now
snooper2
Nov 2015
#34
I would think that those who find the name offensive would simply boycott the restaurant.
Yo_Mama
Nov 2015
#12
"I'm gonna riot unless you force the place to stop doing something perfectly legal that I don't like
Lee-Lee
Nov 2015
#211
The restuarant had to get a business license, and that license is provided by the local government.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#31
What exactly is racist about the name? Go ahead, be specific, about this
underahedgerow
Nov 2015
#62
Perhaps, but it is very tone deaf. It would be up to them to defend their use of the term.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#48
If th Hispanic Community decides it is, then Illegal Pete's damn well does need to defend itself.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#54
They have had the name since 1995, I would think someone would have bothered to go after...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#58
Whinny students is a borad brush attack at a whole class of people, being students, and hispanics.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#64
Bullshit. It is a drogatory attack on a group of people in order to disocunt their ideas.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#74
No, we are posting about "Illegal Pete's Mexian Restaurant.... no warning needed.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#92
Callng studenst and hispanics "Whiny College Students" is a broad brush attack on a group. n/t
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#101
Repeating yourself doesn't make it less of an uggly broad brushed attack. nt
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#106
They fact that you think so doesn't make it less than a broad brushed atack against a group. nt
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#109
It should be noted that some students think its racist, also bear in mind this is the name...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#110
Of course the Redskins is, and the iconography of it is also racist, Illegal Pete's isn't racist.n/t
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#114
Take what case to which court? Hrmm? What law is broken when someone gets offended?
X_Digger
Nov 2015
#199
The use of Redskins was taken to court. The same could be done with this.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#200
Well, your not one of the Hispanics or Students. If they are our future, we are in good hands. nt
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#202
That was for a trademark. What section of local code (you know, the licensing authority in the area)
X_Digger
Nov 2015
#204
So its a chain with a funny name? Could the article in question be any more ridiculous?
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#52
Not to mention that someone is really reaching to claim this restaurant chain's name is racist...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#61
Is anyone apart from the article author talking about the "responsibility of the university"?
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2015
#67
Considering the chain has had the same name for the past 20 years, the petition is most likely...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#72
The author is a professor of Raza studies, so I think he knows racism when he sees it
mwrguy
Nov 2015
#118
This piece reads like it was written as bad parody. Truthout should demand the restaurant close
tritsofme
Nov 2015
#193