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Latino-Owned Colorado BBQ Restaurant Criticized for Its Plan to Host 'White Appreciation Day'
Christian Post ^ | 05/09/2015 | Anugrah Kumar

Posted on 05/10/2015 5:31:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A barbecue restaurant in Colorado is drawing criticism after its Hispanic owners announced they plan to hold "White Appreciation Day" honoring white people with a 10 percent discount.

"We have a whole month for Black History Month," Edgar Antillon, one of the two owners of Rubbin Buttz BBQ in Milliken, told 9NEWS. "We have a whole month for Hispanic Heritage Month, so we thought the least we could do was offer one day to appreciate white Americans."

t started as a joke but Antillon and the other owner Miguel Jimenez made it real by announcing they'll host "White Appreciation Day" on June 11 by offer a 10-percent discount only to white customers.

"White Appreciation Day! June 11th. Because all Americans should be celebrated!!" reads a sign at the restaurant.

Many have not liked the idea and see it as a kind of racism.

It's "wrong" and "a perpetuation of racism," Ricardo Romero, a civil rights activist in northern Colorado, told KUSA. "If you're going to give a discount, give it to the whole community."

Jennifer McPherson at the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies also warned of possible legal repercussions.

"If someone felt like they were being discriminated against, they could come to the civil rights division and file a complaint with our office, and we would investigate that," she was quoted as saying.

Antillon and Jimenez said they expected criticism because there's a history of racism in the America.

Antillon, who was born to Mexican parents, doesn't agree with the critics. "We're all American, whether you came from a different country, or you were born here," he said. "We're all American."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; latino; race; white

1 posted on 05/10/2015 5:31:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“White Hispanics”


2 posted on 05/10/2015 5:35:52 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Jennifer McPherson at the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies also warned of possible legal repercussions. “

Institutionalized racism keeping the brown man down. Anyone care to bet on Jennifer’s political leanings?


3 posted on 05/10/2015 5:41:51 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: bigbob

Bomb threat for white appreciation day.

arson threat for Christian pizzeria (they’re doing very good, i sent pizza to local fire dept.)

one of Obama’s daughters, a Subway worker cheering death of cops,

not good.


4 posted on 05/10/2015 5:42:14 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: SeekAndFind
"...there's a history of racism in the America."

Except it's being perpetrated by the so-called 'victims' and actively encouraged by the government via legal treachery.

5 posted on 05/10/2015 5:47:21 PM PDT by W. (Many Disqus sites, Cheezburger.com and [The Internet] Archive.org all censor conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Jennifer McPherson at the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies

They ought to play the 'card' and denounce her as a bigoted daughter of privilege. I she's the only one they don't picture:
http://cdn.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/DORA/CBON/DORA/1251627010809

6 posted on 05/10/2015 5:51:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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Jennifer McPherson at the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies also warned of possible legal repercussions.

“If someone felt like they were being discriminated against, they could come to the civil rights division and file a complaint with our office, and we would investigate that,” she was quoted as saying.


Typical humorless government drone. It’s a joke, lady. Listen up.


7 posted on 05/10/2015 5:52:47 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: SeekAndFind

We plan on driving there for lunch on the 11th.


8 posted on 05/10/2015 5:54:41 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Them classifying it as a White Appreciation Day is no different than Black history month or other racist types of classifications.

Where they went wrong was promising a 10% discount if you were White.

That is a racial hurdle for a discount.

Tell you what folks, if I was anywhere near you, I’d show up and decline the discount. I appreciate your special day for Whites all on it’s own.


9 posted on 05/10/2015 5:58:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: bigbob

Why do some documents say...

White Not Hispanic?...

could it be that descendants of the Visigoths ...cousins to the Ostrogoths...ARE WHITE !

“The Visigoths also developed the highly influential law code known in Western Europe as the Liber Iudiciorum, which would become the basis for Spanish law throughout the Middle Ages.”

SSShhhh ! ( ; )don’t tell anyone...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths


10 posted on 05/10/2015 5:58:55 PM PDT by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think I’ll try to head up on the 11th w/me mum and kids. :)


11 posted on 05/10/2015 6:07:22 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: SeekAndFind

More hypocrisy from the “party of tolerance.”


12 posted on 05/10/2015 6:16:35 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: SeekAndFind

How about “No White Nigger” Day in remembrance of the HON. Senator Robert Byrd.


13 posted on 05/10/2015 6:20:24 PM PDT by eyedigress (s)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Is Jennifer McPherson and her government going to investigate the bomb threat they received, which is an obvious racial hate crime?


14 posted on 05/10/2015 7:50:25 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: SeekAndFind

If they did this for any other race, it would be no big deal. They might even be praised for it. The outrage, bomb threats, etc. just show how much whites are now despised in this country.


15 posted on 05/10/2015 8:39:10 PM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: bigbob

A Mexican friend calls herself a “Whitexican.”


16 posted on 05/10/2015 9:40:39 PM PDT by Calpublican (No Comprendo)
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