“I like being white”: racist stickers placed on cars, in the toilets of Mexican restaurants Cary

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CARY, NC – A man from Cary faces ethnic bullying charges after what he allegedly did at two Mexican restaurants over the weekend.

The Cary Police Department confirmed that John Kantz, 60, had been arrested and charged with ethnic intimidation. Investigators said he placed stickers saying “I (heart emoji) being white” on vehicles at On the Border on Walnut Street and in toilets at Totopos Street Food and Tequila on Kildaire Farm Road.

The stickers were put in place on Saturday July 24th.

Ethnic bullying is a crime in North Carolina.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the country’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, condemned Kantz’s actions on Wednesday.

“We condemn this latest example of growing racist intimidation of members of minority communities nationwide,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “There are no ‘small’ acts of hate, and every fanatic incident must be repudiated by Americans who seek to challenge systemic racism.”

Hooper said CAIR stands with all Americans facing anti-black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, white supremacy or any other form of fanaticism.

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