Alison Ettel (1973- ) is better known to Twitter as #PermitPatty, the White woman in San Francisco who called the police on an eight-year-old Black girl for “illegally selling water without a permit.”
Law and order: Last month it was BBQ Becky, Jennifer Schulte, another middle-aged White woman, just across the bay in Oakland. She called the police on a Black family which was having a cookout in Lake Merritt park with the wrong kind of barbecue grille. The police, to their credit, checked to make sure she was not losing her mind.
Ironies abound: Ettel, as it turns out, is the head of TreatWell Health, which sells medical marijuana (cannabis, weed, pot, THC) for dogs. Four years ago she was doing it without a permit.
War on Drugs: While Permit Patty was making money selling marijuana, not always with a permit, Black men were regularly getting arrested for having marijuana. Whites and Blacks use marijuana at about same rate, but Blacks are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for possession. It has led to mass incarceration, family separation (the White Liberal sob du jour), and the creation of an underclass.
Viral video: While she was calling the police, the girl’s mother caught it on video as Ettel tried to hide.
Mother: Don’t hide, the whole world gonna see you boo.
Ettel: Illegally selling water without a permit?
Mother: On my property.
Ettel: It’s not your property.
That was on Friday (June 22nd 2018). On Saturday the mother posted it on the Internet, where it went viral, invoking the wrath of Black Twitter, which outed Permit Patty as Alison Ettel, dragged her, and urged a boycott of her business.
The girl was selling bottles of cold water to baseball fans on a hot summer day in front of the apartment building where she has lived all her life. It is near AT&T Park, where the San Francisco Giants were then playing the San Diego Padres. It is also near Ettel’s office. She had opened her window – because it was hot.
Ettel:
“They were screaming about what they were selling. It was literally nonstop. It was every two seconds, ‘Come and buy my water.’ It was continuous and it wasn’t a soft voice, it was screaming.”
She called building security on them. When they said they could do nothing, she called the police.
Ettel says she only “pretended” to call the police (they never showed up). And that it “has no racial component to it”, that she is the one who is being “discriminated against.”
White people calling the police on Black people for little stuff like this has been making the news lately. Starbucks is the famous example. The thing has an air of ill will to it given that White people know that police officers can be violently racist.
Some blame it on the Trump Era, but Starbucks, Permit Patty and BBQ Becky are all based on the Left Coast, one of the most anti-Trump parts of the country.
– Abagond, 2018.
See also:
- Starbucks
- White Americans
- law and order
- Why crime statistics cannot be trusted – about marijuana and race
- The Eleven Nations of North America – the Left Coast, etc.
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If these feckless rancid jars of mayonnaise would stop putting their noses where they don’t belong it would be doing black folks a great favor. But these two troglodytes feel so entitled and feel like all spaces belong to them. Then they have the audacity to cry their “white woman tears” and cry victim.
How is a little black girl selling water on a hot Summer day any different than what white kids have been doing for centuries setting up lemonade stands and selling lemonade? Did those white kids have permits? As for BBQ Becky in Oakland who designated herself the charcoal Nazi she has become the joke, all over social media.
These women must lead some very sad and empty existences that they feel they have to make life tough for black people just going about their everyday lives and calling the police on them. This latest incident with this Allison Ettel, she is so pathetic. She says she was pretending to call the police, then when she discovered she was being filmed she tried to hide. Not only is she a racist, she’s a coward. Then she back peddles and says she pretended to call the cops.
Then cries that she she’s not a horrible person, yes you witch! You are a horrible person trying to get a young child and her mother in trouble and possibly even murdered. Being black in America when you are minding your own business and just trying to live is a hard thing indeed.
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So calling the cops on black folks is the new weapon of white folks In America. A crying white woman knows that this could end the life of a black person. Just like the white woman barrista in Starbucks and that charcoal Nazi in Oakland, California and now this latest incident with this sorry sack of human excrement trying to make trouble for a little black girl selling water on a hot Summer day. These women really are horrible human beings.
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White people feeling entitled to all spaces is the name of this effed up game. News Flash, Hey, White People these spaces don’t belong to you.
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Ettel is in the weed game and is not being hassled by law enforcement or government. And black folks go to jail for selling small amounts of marijuana. If this isn’t white privilege I don’t know what is.
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White folks need to use their privilege for good instead of trying to make life miserable for black folks just going about their everyday lives. If black folks called the cops on white folks it would not end well.
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Why is it Mexican people stand on the corners and sell bottles of water it’s no problem but a little black girl do it it’s a problem that’s how you know the hate is real for blk Americans we can’t win for nothing.
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@abagond
“It is also near Ettel’s office, who opened her window – because it was hot.”
I usually refrain from making comments about grammar, but in this case I think the sentence is actually confusing. “Who” is illogically modifying “office,” making it sound as if the office had decided to open the window because of the heat. Instead, you could say, “It is also near Ettel’s office. She had opened her window – because it was hot.”
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Ettel’s business is starting to feel the consequences of her stupidity. She’s losing money from the spread of the video.
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The little girl’s cousin said on Twitter that the girl was selling the water bottles to make money for a trip to Disneyland. Help, police! A child is engaging in goal-setting and entrepreneurship!
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@ Page
Thanks for the correction.
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There has been a rash of kids being fined for running lemonade stands. Country Time Lemonade earlier this month started a legal-ade team to help kids pay fines and for permits to run lemonade stands.
https://www.countrytimelegalade.com/
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180607005277/en/Country-Time-Takes-Stand-Legal-Ade
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/11/us/lemonade-stands-country-time-trnd/index.html
Here is a story about a lemonade stand in Denver being shut down last month.
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@ Brian
I saw that story a few month ago on the maven.net. They had a different take on the situation:
https://www.themaven.net/pinacnews/public-records/denver-cops-shut-down-lemonade-stand-run-by-boys-ages-4-and-6-QzBX8uEHF0GkOwp33dwfLw/
The rampant calling of the police for longstanding and innocuous practices is akin to the more dangerous practice of “swatting” where malicious false calls to the police about hostage and other violent situations are made to harass a targeted individual or family. The callers know the police over-react to such calls in ways that can lead to injury or death.
It is easy to blame out of control police. The other side of the equation is out of control citizens who use the police to harass or put other people in harms way.
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That “White Privilege” Credit Card is about to be revoked.
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She was trying to instigate a situation where a black child could be murdered. It’s a sick pleasure of white women. No different than when white women would lie on black men to get them into all sorts of barbarism.
This is attempted murder.
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@ Heru Sankofa
White women do have a history of that.
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The irony if this one is thick.
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Now we have Stephanie Sebbie-Strempel (Swimming Stephy?) along with Permit Patty and Barbecue Becky. According to Raw Story, she “accosted black teens at a community pool, slapping a boy with a camera, using racial slurs and telling the teens they ‘didn’t belong’”.
Sebbie-Strempel threatened to call 911 on them, but she’s the one who is “now facing third-degree assault and two counts of assaulting, beating or wounding a police officer while resisting arrest” because she “pushed one detective into a wall, injuring his knee, and bit a second detective on the arm, breaking the skin.” Maybe Senseless Stephy would be a better nickname!
The video is at the bottom of the article:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-raging-white-woman-assaults-black-boy-pool-bites-cop-came-arrest/
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“Savage Stephy” also works. “Biting”?
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@ abagond
“Starbucks, Permit Patty and BBQ Becky are all based on the Left Coast, one of the most anti-Trump parts of the country.”
I thought of this post when I came across an article about the history of racism in Oregon: https://gizmodo.com/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia-1539567040
This part seemed kind of familiar, in all its contradictory glory:
“The constitution was put to a popular vote in the state in 1857 and included two referendums that were to be voted on independently. The first was whether they should reject slavery. Roughly 75 percent of voters opted to reject the adoption of slavery. The second measure was whether or not to exclude black people from the state. About 89 percent of voters cast their vote in favor of excluding black and mixed race people from the state.”
The article also mentions that Whitopia book you did a post about.
Interestingly, the recent incident of hotel employees trying to kick out a Black man took place in Oregon. I’m not trying to say that Northwesterners are uniquely or even especially racist, just that blatant exclusion seems like it may be their preferred form of racism.
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Oregon was not alone in this. The 1851 state constitution of Indiana prohibited blacks from immigrating there. Illinois and other Midwestern states tried to pass similar measures and did have legal restrictions that made it difficult for free blacks to move there. Californians also tried multiple times to pass an exclusion law modelled after Oregon’s. And there was a sizable faction of white abolitionists in the Northeast who wanted to end slavery by shipping all black Americans back to Africa.
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@Paige
You’re not far off. Check out the census map:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/map/US/RHI225217
To your point, even California, a state that conservatives point to as
“progressive” is only 6.5% Black. Remember, the SF Bay area, practically the capital of liberalism if you listen to conservative pundits, was also the birthplace of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense!
It’s strange to see the rest of the map laid out and notice standout states like West Virginia surrounded by more diversity too. Would be interesting to map the hashtag racists (all the Pattys, Beckys & Paulas, etc…) and see how it overlays the population map.
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