A dining and drinking establishment in San Antonio,Texas, has recently come under fire forthreatening a banon men who sported the “Edgar,”a bowl-shapedhaircutpopular among young Latinos.
The food truck park El Camino posted a photo of said haircut with a crossed-out red circle on top. In the caption, theestablishmentwrote, “Should we enforce a no chili bowl policy?”
A food truck park in Texas threatened to ban the “Edgar,” a popular haircut among young Latinos associated with the ranchero/a aesthetic and Indigenous cultures
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The owner of El Camino, Ricky Ortiz, was heavily criticized after making the anti-Edgar Instagram post on May 3.
“Stereotyping someone based on a haircut is crazy. This is weird behavior to exhibit as an establishment,” a social media user wrote.
“Everyone in town should get the Edgar cut and come order food,” another person suggested, while a separate individual said, “Imagine discriminating [against] your customers.”
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Mikey Valdez, one of the shooters, had an Edgar haircut, Ortiz told theSan Antonio Current.
“I see Edgar as more of a state of mind, a maturity level more than just a haircut,” the business owner told the publication.
“Edgar is more the personality of the people with face tattoos, guns [sic] committing these crimes. You know what I mean?”
The night of the shooting, Ortiz wrote on Facebook: “Market Square is what carnival used to be. Fiesta commission needs to fence the whole thing off, charge a cover, and have a no Edgar policy. A good chunk of the people in this city are absolute [trash can emoji]. Make it unaffordable for them to even attend.”
The haircut is popular among Gen Z Latinos in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas
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“I did not mean to offend an entire race, because, obviously, it’d be silly for me to do that. I’m also someone who is in that culture and grew up in it and has had my fair share of run-ins and trouble,” he toldMySanAntonio.
On May 11, San Antonio artist Colton Valentine responded to the controversial post with a mural depicting a teenager sporting an Edgar haircut in front of a black-and-gray portrait of an Indigenous boy.
The mural, located at 802 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio, features the words “They not like us.”
Bored Pandahas contacted El Camino for comment.
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