Posted on 07/18/2008 7:39:56 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Designer claims unhappy customer got assaulted, now wants to sue
When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn’t anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teens into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.
Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, “Obama is my slave,” it may have been wise to consider the possibility.
Now she’s suing the $69 shirt’s designer, Apollo Braun, for “all he’s got,” the designer claims.
But the Israeli-born Braun — born Doron Braunshtein — says what allegedly happened to his now-disgruntled customer isn’t his fault — and that his outrageous design reflects not his views but those of “ordinary WASPs.”
“For a lot of people, when they see Obama, they see a slave. People think America is not ready for a black president,” Braun told Metro from his five-year-old Orchard Street boutique.
Braun claims that after the customer — who did not return repeated calls from Metro — threatened to sue, he contacted his own lawyer, who assured him he was shielded by the
First Amendment from any legal action.
The ugly incident over the ugly shirt took place at 8:30 p.m. in Union Square, Braun told Metro, when four African-American female teenagers accosted the student, cursed at her for her shirt and pushed her. According to the designer, the student walked away, but the girls followed her, one pulling the earphones out of her ears, another spitting in her face.
This isn’t Braun’s first sartorial criticism of the Democratic presidential presumptive nominee. He has also sold shirts with slogans such as “Jews Against Obama,” “Obama = Hitler” and “Who Killed Obama?” — which he claims was so popular, he moved 1,200 pieces.
“I can’t stand Obama,” Braun says, adding that it’s not because the Illinois senator is black. “That’s the only thing I like about him. He opens the door for other minorities.”
“He reminds me of Adolf Hitler,” Braun explained, adding he does not like Obama because “he is a Muslim” — a thoroughly debunked myth.
Why is it some people do and say things to bring attention to themselves and stir controversy? Why would anyone where anything that says something so vile? I mean about ANYONE. Why would they do that????
I think if we all tried to be a little nicer and not so hateful we’d all get along a lot better in this crazy world. I know it won’t happen but...sometimes I just wish the tone of everything today would change. I know I’m dreaming but...I would like to see it happen.
I wear this one when I’m tending bar at my American Legion Post.
http://jihadikiller.com/crusader-tshirt-p-8.html?zenid=7ef81f2b04ed033ea930315b3eb5fed6
I’ve gotten some interesting looks when I stop at the gas station or convienience store on the way too!!!
But I’m the sort of guy most people won’t start crap with....I’m ugly and don’t look like I care what happens(or so I’m told) Kinda like, you don’t cut off a beat up old Buick.....
The vanguard of Obama Youth?
This suit should be tossed out and the the fool who wore the shirt should be forced to pay all costs. What an idiot! She wears as shirt she knows will be inflammatory and then wants to blame the artist for the consequences of her own imprudence. Arrest and prosecute the teens for assault. But nobody held a gun to this woman’s head and made her buy and wear the shirt. I am so sick of people wanting to blame someone else for their stupid behavior.
These people deserce each other.
(damn!)
For the short time it continues to exist.
adding he does not like Obama because “he is a Muslim” — a thoroughly debunked myth.
MYTH?
The vanguard of Obama youth?
Yeah, just looking for “change” in someone’s pocketbook.
Could this Braun guy be Eva & Dolf's love-child?
Is that a picture of Larry Sinclair?
in your dreams and John McCain's kneepads cakeboy!
Somebody clips Obama and the riots in urban areas from blacks and their opportunists brethren will dwarf the MLK riots of lore
vigilence
I sure hope no physical harm comes to Obama, but he does seem to have a death wish with what I’ve read of his plans for his upcoming trip abroad. Does he want to be a martyr? Thankfully, there are others with more sense who are scaling back the plans of Mr. Change.
“Obama is my slave” ????? I’m sorry but I don’t see the relevance of that statement. If they had one that said: “Obama is a Muslim” or “Michelle Obama Hates America”, etc. I’d get it. but, “Obama is my slave”?
I’m missing something here.
Suing the shirt maker is wrong. The idiot should have known that the message would make some people angry.
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