Austin “Whites Only” Sticker Turn Out to Have Been Put Up By Social Justice Warrior
Recently, the following sticker appeared on several Austin businesses during the popular South by Southwest festival:
A Texas state representative shared the photo from one shop on her Facebook page and threatened to put the shop “out of business”:
Some jokes just are not funny. If this is a joke at all, it is tasteless. Pardon mon française mais, I will be damned if this will occur in my House Disrtict, disrtict 46 on my watch on 12th St. in this historical Black Community or any community. This morning, I have been in communication with the City Managers office, APD, PIO, et. al. This is NOT sponsored by the City of Austin and ACM Anthony Snipes is on top of it, all over it. Until then, refrain from supporting Unique Trends until “some explaining” is done. If the explanation is unbelievable …. They need to be put out of business, ASAP!
To regular observers of such stories, what happened next will come as little surprise. The person who put the stickers on the businesses turned out to be . . . a social justice warrior:
Now, a criminal defense attorney, Adam Reposa, is claiming he is responsible for the stickers.
In a YouTube video, a shirtless Reposa appears to be explaining why he placed the stickers on the windows of stores in front of one of the stores he vandalized. In the video, Reposa says the reason why he put the stickers in the store is “pretty clear”: “this area of town is turning into whites only.”
Reposa also reveals that he is upset that people focused on the use of the word “colored” rather than the message of his stickers.
These businesses had their names spread all over the Internet as being potentially racist. I hope they are considering a lawsuit against the lawyer, at a minimum. And Rep. Dukes owes the businesses an apology.
When I checked her Facebook page this morning, I could find no such apology.
I focused on the word “accepted”, but that’s just me.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:33 amWould this be grounds for disbarment?
Steven Den Beste (99cfa1) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:35 amFrankly, for a lawyer to have just opened himself up to massive lawsuits for defamation and lost business and a host of other things, I think his markedly poor English skills are the least of his worries….
😀
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:36 amI expect that we will find a connection between the lawyer and the representative.
I would imagine that the use of the City of Austin’s seal is a crime in Austin. They were libeled as well by this, and being guilty white liberals are probably not amused being called racist.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:36 amMr. Reposa exposed amateur race-baiter Dawnna Dukes as being a moronic unthinking stupid person
that’s more than I accomplished last week
happyfeet (a037ad) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:37 amEveryone needs to send her a nastygram
Here’s the place to send it:
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/email/?district=46&session=83
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:40 amI.G.Bupkis–
The City of Austin could claim to being defamed by the poor English in the sign, among other things.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:44 amcould claim
Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/23/2015 @ 7:45 amtothey were being defamed. Gah!This story broke a few days ago and no action has been taken against Jerk Reposa. IIRC, Austin is not the type of the city to take action against an SJW.
seeRpea (1925e7) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:00 amas for the rep, she won’t apologize. she will use as a defense that the businesses didn’t take the sign down right away so they must agree with the sign.
LOLZ.
Irony? YES!!
Suggestion: Anytime you are taking the time to make a comment about someone else’s bad grammar, it pays to check it over a few times for your own… I’ve caught myself more than once making such an error, so believe me, that’s not making fun of you, but a legit observation. Some of the most fun I have on the internet is correcting grammar and spelling errors of people making posts telling other people they’re idiots.
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:08 amas for the rep, she won’t apologize. she will use as a defense that the businesses didn’t take the sign down right away so they must agree with the sign.
Hrm. That will be hard to justify, since from the comments at least two of the five are minority-owned.
She’s shut down her FB page but that one thread seems to have a life of its own. 😀
P.S., “Dawnna“?? … Really, “Donna“? We are not surprised you’re this stupid.
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:11 amWhy is it that leftists always feel compelled to create a racist event in order to have their beloved discussions on racisms?
JD (86a5eb) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:19 amWhy is it that leftists always feel compelled to create a racist event in order to have their beloved discussions on racisms?
Gotta burn down the village in order to save it, JD.
JVW (a1146f) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:25 amAttorney Reposa has been the subject of a post here before, and he’s a regular at Above The Law.
DRJ (e80d46) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:32 amSimon Jester and I discussed this at the Starbucks thread and I noted:
Dana (86e864) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:34 amThe lefties are getting into lala land. Even The Nation has a piece about the the college craziness going on.
Kipnis could hardly have invented a response that so neatly proved her argument. Not the argument about prohibiting student-teacher sex—there’s still a good case to be made for that. Certainly, Kipnis is right that some undergrads enjoy flaunting their erotic power, but such power is fleeting and ultimately no match for the institutional authority wielded by professors. Yet the reaction to Kipnis—the demands for official censure, the claims of emotional injury—demonstrated how correct she is about the broader climate. “The new codes sweeping American campuses aren’t just a striking abridgment of everyone’s freedom, they’re also intellectually embarrassing,” she wrote. “Sexual paranoia reigns; students are trauma cases waiting to happen.”
A backlash is coming if even The Nation sees it. The goofy lawyer and the goofy state legislator are in good company.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:42 amReposa somehow managed to get a 19-year-old charged with raping a 14-year-old a 90 day sentence. I think he also showed up in the comments at the link.
DRJ (e80d46) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:43 amGreetings:
Something akin, but scarily different, if I may.
I’m still serving my deportation to the San Francisco Bay area, living several soviets south of what the locals for some arcane reason refer to as “The City” with two capitals no less. SInce the federally mandated analog to digital TV signal conversion, the number of foreign language TV stations broadcasting in the area has significantly increased.
Last evening, while doing a channel-surf, I came upon an Asian (probably Chinese) commercial that showed an apartment building window with a small sign in it that read “Whites only”. The Asian narrator was then approached by a couple of Asian adults and a couple of Asian children (probably meant to be a family) whom he then led into the building in some kind of triumph. And, this here being the kicker, the commercial was put out by HUD, the federal Housing and Urban Development agency.
It seems to me, and I’d be willing to bet my First Holy Communion money, that nothing like this happened and thus seems to me to be anti-white propaganda being put out with our tax dollars.
11B40 (844d04) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:47 amre #12: great line, need to remember that.
re #15: Hispanics do not count as a minority unless they are brown. you should know that liberal rule by now 🙂 . and he will adjust the argument to the customers being white.
re #18: every look at HUD regulations? the simplicity of the ‘Whites Only’ sign is over the top but according to the regs just giving the impression that a certain race is not welcome is against the law. and that is the least of the issues when advertising housing.
seeRpea (1925e7) — 3/23/2015 @ 8:57 amIt feels like we’re going backwards in every way, 11B40.
DRJ (e80d46) — 3/23/2015 @ 9:04 am@12– Could it be — just possibly — that there are not enough spontaneous racial events to keep the movement going at the pace they desire…
Gramps, the original (9e1415) — 3/23/2015 @ 9:20 amMr Reposa is actually pretty dumb. He is combitching about “gentrification,” but gentrification normally means people with greater resources, normally younger white urban professionals, buying property in run-down areas, usually heavily minority, and fixing up the properties. To do this, these higher-income people must be willing to live in the same neighborhoods with minority neighbors, which would seem to me to be the opposite of racism; it’s actually integration.
More than that, as gentrification proceeds, the value of those run-down houses increases, as more people want to move into those gentrified neighborhoods and fix up places themselves. This means that either the minority owners can sell for a lot more than previously, or, with additional equity, have a chance to borrow against the value of the home to fix up their houses themselves.
The economist Dana (f6a568) — 3/23/2015 @ 9:46 amgentrification is race based? thought it was just “Nouveau riche”.
is there an ‘Uncle Tom’ aspect that tilts the gentrificators to white? In the neighborhood here that is going through gentrification the populace color palette of the newbies is pretty mixed. Maybe it also depends on the geography and history of the city.
seeRpea (181740) — 3/23/2015 @ 12:00 pmNothing in Austin is beyond the pale, except Rick Perry vetoing an appropriations bill that contains money for some CS bureau within the Travis County DA’s office.
askeptic (efcf22) — 3/23/2015 @ 12:18 pmGentrification is *in effect* race based. Urban neighborhoods which gentrify typically don’t just increase in average wealth – the racial composition changes.
Looking at gentrified regions of Harlem vs. non-gentrified regions of Harlem, the gentrified areas are far, far more diverse than the non-gentrified regions, which are (depending on the block) basically 100% African-American or 100% Dominican.
aphrael (50ee60) — 3/23/2015 @ 12:26 pmLooking at gentrified regions of Harlem vs. non-gentrified regions of Harlem, the gentrified areas are far, far more diverse than the non-gentrified regions, which are (depending on the block) basically 100% African-American or 100% Dominican.
Diversity is good though, right?
JVW (a1146f) — 3/23/2015 @ 12:29 pmAA v. Dominican….
AME v. Santaria!
askeptic (efcf22) — 3/23/2015 @ 1:51 pmPlenty of diversity there.
Soul food (chicken, potatoes, rice, beans) v. Dominican food (chicken, potatoes, rice, beans)!
JVW (a1146f) — 3/23/2015 @ 1:55 pmVery diverse.
JVW, the “Blessings” are different, so that changes everything.
askeptic (efcf22) — 3/23/2015 @ 1:58 pm@#18: It seems to me, and I’d be willing to bet my First Holy Communion money, that nothing like this happened and thus seems to me to be anti-white propaganda being put out with our tax dollars.
Asians were discriminated against in housing on the Pacific coast until the 50s.
My grandmother knew a white-Asian interracial couple that was not legally allowed to cohabit, despite being married.
Of course Seattle renamed King county after Martin Luther King Jr, instead of one of those Asians discriminated against or lynched. Nice way to appropriate the civil rights struggle they had nothing to do with, while burying their own.
I went to college 30 miles from a place called “Chinese Massacre Cove”. Guess what happened there.
Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1) — 3/23/2015 @ 2:08 pmBack when the Detroit Pistons were hot, they were entirely diverse except for Bill Laimbeer..
Richard Aubrey (f6d8de) — 3/23/2015 @ 3:22 pmWere the stickers printed in the USA?
htom (4ca1fa) — 3/23/2015 @ 4:35 pmSeattle did quite nicely in treating itself when it comes to Asiatic discrimination. When i first started visiting Seattle in the early ’80s the thing that struck me the most was how many interracial couples there were with one of them being ‘Asian’ and the other not.
seeRpea (181740) — 3/23/2015 @ 5:17 pmand i was coming from New York City.
The other thing about these couples is how to a person living here it wasn’t even noticeable. (like the Christian walking in the Jewish neighborhoods in Israel)
So without anyone demanding revenge of any sort, Seattle did quite alright with dealing with a discriminated populace.
As for Japanese Internment camps – i’m wholly with Michelle Malkin on this issue. and so are a lot of the ‘Asiatics’ in the greater Seattle area.
It’s Austin…
Rusty Bill (aaacb0) — 3/23/2015 @ 5:31 pmGreetings, Gabriel Hanna: (re: #30 @ 3/23/2015 @ 2:08 pm)
I can agree that my language was a bit loose in what you quoted. But, be that as it may, the 1950s was a good while ago, maybe not a Crusades while ago, but a good while ago. And having the Obama Administration turn the taxes paid by white people on them via a nowadays defamation is unacceptable to me. Couldn’t the task at hand have been handled as well by a sign that said “No Asians” ???
Housing is a funny commodity. I’m old enough to remember when “ethnocentrism” wasn’t same-same as “racism”. People usually like to live around those of similar race and culture as in the “Chinatowns”. “Little Saigons” and “Koreatowns” up and down the West Coast. I have a hard time accepting that it’s okay for any ethinc group but Caucasians to do so without the wrath of Obama Khan being turned on it.
11B40 (844d04) — 3/23/2015 @ 6:35 pmJVW (a1146f) — 3/23/2015 @ 12:29 pm
Not for politicians who keep their seats through racial gerrymandering. It’s not people voting – if the area gets too gentrified, there could even be more candidates.
Sammy Finkelman (033fec) — 3/24/2015 @ 6:27 pmhow about a little humor to end the night?
seeRpea (c1462d) — 3/24/2015 @ 10:36 pm