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Popular haircut sparks outrage across Texas - as restaurant threatens to ban customers sporting divisive style [An Edgar is a bowl-shaped haircut popular among Mexican-American teens ]
The Daily Mail ^ | 06/16/2024 | Maryann Martinez

Posted on 06/16/2024 6:44:03 PM PDT by thegagline

A popular haircut known as 'The Edgar' has sparked a major backlash - with some restaurants and schools seeking to ban those who sport it.

The bowl-shaped style *** is typically favored by Mexican-American young men who are known as 'Edgars'.

But the trend is causing widespread division in Hispanic communities as locals increasingly link the haircut to crime, while others accuse critics of being racist.

One of the suspects Mikey Valdez, 18, an 'Edgar ', had just been let out of jail on unrelated car burglary charges and was killed alongside his accomplice by police who rushed in to protect the public.

Valdez and a second shooter 'had some sort of beef and decided to take it to Market Square, among all those people,' Police Chief William McManus stated***

Following the melee, local restaurateur Ricky Ortiz posted a meme with a 'no Edgars' sign on social media, suggesting he did not want anyone with this haircut in his popular restaurants El Camino, Besame, Ay Que Chula and Perfect Tender.

'Fiesta commission needs to fence the whole thing off, charge a cover, and have a no Edgar policy,' Ortiz said of the organizers of the event Valdez targeted. *** But Ortiz's comments received pushback in the majority Hispanic community, with some San Antonio residents accusing him of being a racist. ***

'Lol, you live in "Edgar" city. This is a new form of racism.' But Ortiz, a first-generation American of Mexican parents, defended his comments.

'People accusing me of racism are speaking from a place of ignorance,' he told the local publication.

'They don't want to acknowledge or admit that the majority of the kids that are getting these haircuts want to be in a culture influenced by gang affiliation and things like that.'***


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; edgar; gangs; illegals; moe; sanantonio; texas
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To: thegagline

Perhaps the next haircut trend will be the center-part, heavy pomade “Shemp”.


21 posted on 06/16/2024 7:11:23 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: joethedrummer

“These are the last of the Moe Haircuts!”

Okay, THAT’S funny.


22 posted on 06/16/2024 7:11:26 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

How about the Eloi in The Time Machine?


23 posted on 06/16/2024 7:11:27 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: gundog

I didn’t know that. Thanks.


24 posted on 06/16/2024 7:12:13 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: plain talk

Looking at that lineup - the one with the tie looks guilty to me.


25 posted on 06/16/2024 7:12:24 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: thegagline

What about Duck Tails? What about shaved heads?


26 posted on 06/16/2024 7:16:38 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: thegagline

The “Duane Dibley?”


27 posted on 06/16/2024 7:16:45 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: gundog

Yep, one episode as Andy the Barber.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573830/


28 posted on 06/16/2024 7:17:02 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: thegagline

Bring back the Zoot suit, maybe get another riot or such.


29 posted on 06/16/2024 7:18:59 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: plain talk

Look like Amish bowl cuts to me.


30 posted on 06/16/2024 7:22:31 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: thegagline

31 posted on 06/16/2024 7:23:48 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: thegagline

32 posted on 06/16/2024 7:24:05 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: thegagline
The Prince Valiant haircut.


33 posted on 06/16/2024 7:25:27 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: thegagline
"Now look here, ya juvenile delinquent..."


34 posted on 06/16/2024 7:27:17 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: thegagline

Moe was American.

These… aren’t.


35 posted on 06/16/2024 7:27:35 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Fiji Hill

That looks like Jim Carrey.


36 posted on 06/16/2024 7:30:26 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: thegagline

I wonder where the ‘Edgar’ reference comes from.

The cut looks kind of tribal to me. Reminds me of the native people encountered by the priests in the film The Mission, down in the deep jungle of South America.


37 posted on 06/16/2024 7:32:05 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: plain talk

What is young Arafat doing in there?


38 posted on 06/16/2024 7:35:23 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: PAR35

That is Yasser Arafat.


39 posted on 06/16/2024 7:37:31 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: thegagline
If there is a "gang sign" or a "gang tattoo" or a "gang color" or a "gang haircut" then people who show those indicators can reasonably be seen as gangsters.

It kind of sucks if you didn't really mean it that way, but that is how it works. And most of these stupid boys do mean it that way. They are gangster wannabees.

And people who don't like those affiliations will exclude you from their company. As they should have every right to do.

The Racist Card has expired. Nobody accepts it anymore. And "Mexican" or "Hispanic" is not a race anyway. The local community activists can GFY.

40 posted on 06/16/2024 7:37:59 PM PDT by flamberge (It turns out that you can fool most of the people, most of the time.)
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