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A restaurant in New Mexico sells tacos and burritos with names like 'El Muro' and 'Enciérrenla'. The owner is an immigrant

2019-09-05T21:43:25.276Z


Urban Taqueria just opened six weeks ago, but the menu is actually a transfer from Mohamed's old restaurant, Crazy Lizard Taqueria, a place for breakfast and lunch.


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(CNN) - "Lock it up", "There was no collusion" and "The Wall".

They are just some of the burrito options available at Urban Taquería in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are also more than a dozen taco options, including "Bad Man", "The Immigrant" and "False News".

By now, you have begun to see the pattern, a pattern that offends some, who say that some of the names highlight hurtful phrases. But owner Hanif Mohamed, a Muslim immigrant from Kenya, says he doesn't see the problem.

"I think they are getting angry now about what is happening at the border," he told CNN. "As painful as it may be, staying silent about it doesn't solve it."

Urban Taqueria has just opened six weeks ago, but the menu is actually a version of Mohamed's previous restaurant, Crazy Lizard Taqueria, a place for breakfast and lunch.

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It was 2016, and all these phrases were being used, as "disgusting woman." He and his staff, who are also mostly immigrants, thought they could have a little fun. And they did it.

Some dishes from the Urban Taquería menu.

Recently, with his new restaurant, some people began to have problems, although he says that more than 99% of people don't seem to have a problem with that.

Patricia Perea, a professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM), told KOAT, a CNN affiliate, that the problem lies in the normalization of hate speech.

"The more you do that, the more likely people are to repeat them and may forget about the contexts in which they were told," he said.

But Gabriel Sánchez, also a professor at the UNM in the department of political science, said context matters here.

"You have to keep in mind that this is a restaurant owned by immigrants and that all staff are immigrants, the way I interpret the objectives they have ... is very different from whether the owner is a white conservative," he told CNN. “Because I think that using that language could really be perceived as a mockery of the administration and causes a feeling of affection. Like, 'Hello, we are immigrants and obviously we disagree with what the president says, but we are going to take away some of his power by reusing part of his language.' ”

That can be a positive thing, Sánchez said. He also mentioned that people who have a negative reaction may not know the full context, such as that the restaurant is owned by an immigrant.

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"The messenger matters," he said. "If it's someone who is not from the community that has been targeted by these policies ... that will matter in terms of public perception and reaction."

Mohamed, meanwhile, says he will not eliminate political names in the short term. With Elizabeth Warren's success in the polls, she is even thinking of a menu item of "she persisted"; So, there are no signs of changes in the menu.

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Source: cnnespanol

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