{"id":44102,"date":"2020-08-22T01:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44102"},"modified":"2020-08-22T01:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:04:48","slug":"big-beaners-goes-bye-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44102","title":{"rendered":"Big Beaners goes bye bye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=BigBeaners%20%23Amarillo%20%23Latino%20%23ethnicslur&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43033\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brief, but still weird, story has come to a close up yonder in Amarillo. It might have an actual final conclusion, but for now the story appears to have gone dormant.<\/p>\n<p>The story involves a restaurant opened by a flamboyant and flashy Amarillo personal injury lawyer, Jesse Quackenbush. It used to serve Mexican food, until the city closed it for reasons I do not yet know.<\/p>\n<p>The joint got off to a rocky start, owing to the weird &#8212; and <em>blatantly scurrilous<\/em> &#8212; name that Quackenbush attached to it. He called it Big Beaners, which a number of folks in Amarillo interpreted as an anti-Latino slur.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8230; it is. The term &#8220;beaner&#8221; is meant as a slur against people of Latino heritage. Quackenbush, of course, defended the name, even though in some circles the name &#8220;beaner&#8221; is nearly equal to using the n-word when referring to African-Americans or any assortment of epithets hurled at Asian-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Big Beaners is no longer open, which is just as well.<\/p>\n<p>The universe is full of quirky, catchy, market-friendly names that do not hurl an ethnic slur.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=BigBeaners%20%23Amarillo%20%23Latino%20%23ethnicslur&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief, but still weird, story has come to a close up yonder in Amarillo. It might have an actual final conclusion, but for now the story appears to have gone dormant. The story involves a restaurant opened by a flamboyant and flashy Amarillo personal injury lawyer, Jesse Quackenbush. It used to serve Mexican food, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Beaners goes bye bye<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[276,9422],"class_list":["post-44102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-amarillo","tag-big-beaners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44103,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102\/revisions\/44103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}