Utah Jazz's Jordan Clarkson
Posted on 06/11/2021 4:35:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After a popular Filipino food truck was vandalized with anti-Asian slurs, the owners received unexpected help from Utah Jazz player Jordan Clarkson.
Ben Pierce said he woke up Sunday morning in Layton, about 25 miles from Salt Lake City, to find his World Famous Yum Yum Food Truck vandalized with hateful messages painted across the black exterior. Pierce owns the truck with his 21-year-old son, Brevin, and they shared the graffiti images on social media.
"We are not going to have hatred stop us from sharing our culture," they wrote. "We are just so hurt right now and don't what to comment on anything."
The post went viral, with people offering donations and sharing plans to eat at the family-owned business as soon as it was up and running. Pierce shared with NBC Affiliate KSL how overwhelmed he was by the support.
"I don't really cry that much, you know?" the Utah resident told KSL. "Emotionally, you just can't believe — we love Utah by itself, but when the community is just so loving. All the love that we're getting is unbelievable. We couldn't ask for anything else."
The buzz would eventually catch the eye of Clarkson, 29, who is Filipino American. The NBA player shared his reaction on social media to seeing the racist graffiti.
"It hurt me deeply to see that Salt Lake’s @yumyumasian food truck was recently vandalized — I know the pain that hateful language and racism causes," he tweeted.
Clarkson also shared his plan to partner up with local companies to help re-wrap the food truck.
"With help from @identitygraphix we’ll be able to restore the truck and hopefully lift Ben and his family’s spirit!! #StopAsianHate,"
In addition to having the truck detailed, the former Lakers player shared his support for the state's Filipino residents.
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Gangs .
in utah now .
thanks the cali invasion .
Now that it has made headlines, it’ll be tagged again and again.
The therapeutic state started running those boot camps and bringing gang bangers up from L.A. back in the 90s. Some stayed. Not too many though.
This is probably a false flag. Mess with people in Utah and you get shot. We have constitutional carry now.
Let me be the first to say “Cool. Good for him.”
He needs more tatts.
Agree!
Racism is sickening as well as the destruction of one’s property.
That is a nice gesture. I like when pros use their voices this way.
why do I think all this Asian hate is fake?
who doesnt like lumpia?
RE: why do I think all this Asian hate is fake?
“all this”?
You’re saying this Asian food truck owner vandalized his own vehicle?
its been done.
He did something good and honorable. I have to remember tattoos all over doesn’t always mean somebody’s a Thug or some kind of Kook.
RE: its been done.
Sure, but does it apply in this particular case?
Fraudulent “hate crimes” are de facto Extra Credit at many universities and have been for decades. It’s an organizational tool. If there isn’t enough “racism” to go around, they have to manufacture it. Then they can have weeping OP-Eds in the local rags, “candle light vigils” and the rest of it. It’s all theater.
In a similar way, I note in another post here at FR, the Biden* administration nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management - sent threatening letters to the US Forest Service in 1993 when a college student. This was, and is the the type of “activism” encouraged. In this case, it involves the threat of “spiking” trees in parcels slated for logging. Metal spikes are extremely dangerous to lumber mill personnel, it is a form of terrorism by any definition.
And she’ll get confirmed 98-2 or something like that.
Stop! Just stop. You had me at lumpia.
One can have a dislike or even racism against a certain ethnic group but one has no right to hinder or harm them especially the legal, law abiding ones.
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