Austin ‘Whites Only’ Sticker Mystery Solved

Posted by | March 21, 2015 01:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Top Stories


It was a protest against increasing gentrification in the college town capitol of Texas:

An attorney in Austin, Texas appears to claim responsibility for targeting local businesses with stickers saying there were “exclusively for white people,” KXAN-TV reported.

“Why I did it is pretty obvious,” a shirtless Adam Reposa says in a video posted online. “Because it would be obvious that even though people know the real problem — and the real problem is that people without money are getting f*cked. They’re getting pushed out, and pretty quick. This area of town is turning into whites only.”
The stickers were first spotted on five businesses on the city’s east side, bearing the message, “Maximum of 5 colored customers, colored [back of house] staff accepted” and a copy of the city’s logo.

They were quickly condemned by both local officials and state Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D), who called the stickers a “tasteless” joke. In the video, Reposa suggests that he intended to provoke this type of response.

“I knew I could just bait all of y’all into being as stupid as you are,” he says. “Just allowing the issue to be framed in the most simple way — ‘Oh, he said an offensive term. Let’s not worry about the actual condition of the way things are, let’s worry about an offensive term.’”

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13 responses to Austin ‘Whites Only’ Sticker Mystery Solved

  1. rg9rts March 21st, 2015 at 04:23

    Would you hire this guy?

  2. trees March 21st, 2015 at 05:34

    “I knew I could just bait all of y’all into being as stupid as you are,” he says

    Because everyone knows that financial success and affluence is something that only white people can attain. Right? (sarcasm mine)

  3. Carla Akins March 21st, 2015 at 07:15

    He did the video while shirtless? He expects credibility? FFS, when did I turn into my grandmother?

  4. Otto Greif March 21st, 2015 at 16:58

    No surprise, the stickers were the work of an ant-white bigot.

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