Mexican Restaurant Banned From Handing Out Sombreros As University Brands Them Racist

Yahoo News ^ | 9/28/2015 | Andy J. Wells

[simpson96]

A university has banned students from wearing sombreros after they deemed the Mexican hats to be ‘racist’.

The student union (SU) at the University of East Anglia ordered staff at Pedro’s Tex-Mex Cantina in Norwich to stop handing out the free sombreros at a fresher’s fair in a bid to boost business.

Officials at the university believe that it would be “offensive” for anyone who is not Mexican to be wearing the traditional headwear.

They say the restaurant broke an advertising policy that states: “Discriminatory or stereotypical language or imagery aimed towards any group or individual based on characteristics will not be permitted as part of our advertising.”

Campaigns and Democracy officer Chris Jarvis told student newspaper The Tab: “At the SU we want all members feel safe and accepted, so at all events we try to ensure that there is no behaviour, language or imagery which could be considered racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic or ableist.”

[P-Marlowe]

Wouldn’t know, this white person doesn’t eat there.

. You must be rich. It's the only place I can get 500 calories per dollar. I can't even do that at home.

[TexasCajun]

"Jeff, Does this mean Jose Jalapeno is outta work?"

[ManHunter]

You know, the more I read of nonsense like this, the more I think about voting for Donald Trump...

[uglybiker]

Would dey prefer everyone wore steenking badges?!!

[broken_arrow1]

Guess I can’t eat at Taco Bell anymore either...wouldn’t want to get in trouble calling it “Mexican Food”!

[massgopguy]

Actually if recall. In the movie Demolition Man. All restaurants in the ultra politically correct future are called Taco Bell.

[massgopguy]

I can explain it. Your restaurants sign can say “Food”.

[Celtic Conservative]

Time to hire a mariachi band and have it show up at a certain college.....

CC

[rey]

Does no one remember the Frito Bandito?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYj7ZyqjYY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfthrlClew

I guess they are making up for it now with rainbow chips.

[Texas Eagle]

"Ay caramba! The stupido is strong in this one."

[Crucial]

So if we celebrate other cultures or emulate other cultures, we are racist? Seems bass ackwards to me.

[Texas Eagle]

“At the SU we want all members feel safe and accepted, so at all events we try to ensure that there is no behaviour, language or imagery which could be considered racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic or ableist.”

Or, above all, intelligentist.

[Texas Eagle]

"Amen, brah."

[bunkerhill7]

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[BwanaNdege]

They'd better pass the word down south! Way south!

I was in Playa del Carmen, Mexico last week and they were selling souvenir ("A souvenir (from French, for a remembrance or memory), memento, keepsake, or token of remembrance is an object a person acquires for the memories") sombreros at the street kiosks, Walmart, Chedraui (Mexican version of Walmart, the airport gift shop in Cancun...Everywhere!

[samtheman]

How about a restaurant called The University Administrators and they give out little dickhead beanie caps?

[Jack Hydrazine]

[Calpublican]

So glad our future leaders are concerning themselves with important issues of the day.

[Boogieman]

I would pretend to be a campus diversity officer there and go around handing tickets to minorities wearing pants, telling them that it is racist for them to wear a traditionally European article of clothing.

[Milton Miteybad]

So—Do Mexicans not wear sombreros?

Sure...just like all present-day residents of New England wear tricorn hats. It's part of the local garb, don'cha know? If you live in Boston or Providence, you wouldn't think of leaving the farmhouse without your tricorn hat, any more than you would forget to feed your horse before riding into town.

But seriously, folks...while there must be one guy somewhere in Michoacan or Oaxaca wearing a sombrero today, it's not a common variety of headwear these days. You see a lot of sterotypical media images of Mexicans wearing sombreros, but other than that one guy down in Jalisco who wears one every day for whatever reason, you don't see that many people wandering around under a sombrero.