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'Exclusively for white people' stickers put on Austin stores (TX)
yahoo ^ | March 19, 2015 | AP

Posted on 03/20/2015 6:33:47 AM PDT by bgill

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; blackpanthers; fakehatecrimes; racism
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To: realcleanguy
Every city has stores who have cameras and no doubt that footage has all been looked at by the police, and if it was the Black Panthers placing the stickers it will be “swept under” the rug to prevent a bad situation. I doubt we will know who did this because of that.

The footage may well leak out anyway.

21 posted on 03/20/2015 10:42:58 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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