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irisblue

(34,406 posts) Wed May 9, 2018, 09:39 AM May 2018

Minnesota Businessman Is 'Very, Very Sorry' For Hanging Up Black Piatas In A Way Resembling A Lynch

From Blavity.com

Victor Chavarria may have initially thought his display of piñatas was harmless advertising for his business, but he was in for quite the rude awakening.

According to CNN, the owner of Happy Kids Piñatas has apologized after receiving complaints for hanging piñatas of black people on his front porch. On Friday, a passerby took a photo of the piñata display on Chavarria's front porch and the picture immediately went viral.

The way the piñatas were displayed resembled a lynching, which certainly didn't look good for Chavarria, despite his intentions. .....

addition to his apology, Chavarria admitted he realized just how bad the display looked out of context.

"Out of context, I admit the images look disturbing," he said. "Out of context everything can be horrible."

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Minnesota Businessman Is 'Very, Very Sorry' For Hanging Up Black Piatas In A Way Resembling A Lynch (Original Post) irisblue May 2018 OP

No link to the photo? brush May 2018 #1

Shoot. Lemme try again. irisblue May 2018 #2

Out of context - my ass laserhaas May 2018 #7

Yeah, that's not good. MrScorpio May 2018 #8

That asshole. Kittycow May 2018 #3

The article implies he's apologized, but I still can't understand his logic. irisblue May 2018 #4

There's no apology for that. He did what he wanted to do and only apologized... brush May 2018 #6

The Tweet pic I saw this morning isn't there now. Kittycow May 2018 #9

The twitter pic is gone. If the original person, deletes their tweet, the photo disappears irisblue May 2018 #10

The CNN picture is mild. Kittycow May 2018 #11

Here's the link to the CNN article geardaddy May 2018 #5

Here's a pic progree May 2018 #12

There is no possible context that could make that OK gollygee May 2018 #13

brush

(58,016 posts)

1. No link to the photo?

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2018, 09:57 AM

May 2018

irisblue

(34,406 posts)

2. Shoot. Lemme try again.

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Wed May 9, 2018, 09:58 AM

May 2018

Link to tweet

Thanks I didn't embed the tweet correctly.

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)

7. Out of context - my ass

Reply to irisblue (Reply #2)

Wed May 9, 2018, 10:47 AM

May 2018

Shheesshh......WTF

MrScorpio

(73,714 posts)

8. Yeah, that's not good.

Reply to irisblue (Reply #2)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:02 PM

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Kittycow

(2,396 posts)

3. That asshole.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2018, 10:26 AM

May 2018

irisblue

(34,406 posts)

4. The article implies he's apologized, but I still can't understand his logic.

Reply to Kittycow (Reply #3)

Wed May 9, 2018, 10:34 AM

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brush

(58,016 posts)

6. There's no apology for that. He did what he wanted to do and only apologized...

Reply to irisblue (Reply #4)

Wed May 9, 2018, 10:38 AM

May 2018

when he got called on it.

That's so obviously racist he can't claim he failed to see that.

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)

9. The Tweet pic I saw this morning isn't there now.

Reply to brush (Reply #6)

Wed May 9, 2018, 04:45 PM

May 2018

Don't know if it's me or what.

Anyway, it was a plain as day photo of two black male figures hanging by their necks, swinging from this guy's front porch.

That guy can kiss my ass. I hope his business revenue goes down over this.

He knew damn well what he was doing, like you said.

ETA: now the guy says it was for a custom wedding party and he was drying them on his front porch.

irisblue

(34,406 posts)

10. The twitter pic is gone. If the original person, deletes their tweet, the photo disappears

Reply to Kittycow (Reply #9)

Wed May 9, 2018, 05:07 PM

May 2018

I can't get the CNN portion to load for me with the picture.
We saw it
F that stuff

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)

11. The CNN picture is mild.

Reply to irisblue (Reply #10)

Wed May 9, 2018, 05:38 PM

May 2018

It shows a black guy in a light suit and red tie and a black bride in a wedding dress. It's captioned that they were made for "a wedding". It doesn't say these are the actual ones in question.

I'm going to myself The pinatas guy is whitewashing (haha) this to CNN about what he had on his porch.