Austin, Texas — (KXAN) An Austin, Texas bakery says they were victims of a hate crime. Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop posted a photo Wednesday on Instagram of a sticker that someone placed on their store.
The sticker reads: “Exclusively for white people. Maximum of 5 colored customers, colored BOH (Back of House) staff accepted.”
The sticker also includes the City of Austin logo and says the message is “sponsored by the City of Austin Contemporary Partition and Restoration Program.”
“Some people are saying that this may be an attempt at satire, or a statement about gentrification,” said bakery owner Olivia Guerra O’Neal. “As a multiracial family with a multiracial staff, there’s nothing funny about this. It’s sick, and its cowardly message can be read many ways, none of them positive. We are disgusted by this act of vandalism and cowardice.”
The sticker also showed up the storefronts of El Chilito, Ingredients Grocery Store and Windmill Bicycles – all on Manor Road.
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