Blatant Racism displayed by owner of Berkeley-based Sachi Landscape

2014-10-03T14:06:00-04:00

Are you joking? Go ask a Latino based org. I am not interested in assisting anyone from a Latino based org. Its racist to even ask and frankly my business has [been] ruined by fucking illegal immigrants. Are we clear! Don’t ever email this address again. If there weren’t so many damn illegal immigrants in this state, i would have work for myself. Now piss off!

'Landscaper Refuses to Help Berkeley Students Because of ‘F*cking Illegal Immigrants’. This quote is not from the Onion, but written as a response to Vanessa Hernández Juárez, a member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association who e mailed Sachi Landscape asking for a studio visit from UC Berkeley Landscape Architecture students.

I like how one of my favorite cartoonists Lalo Alcaraz responded to Sachi.

“Are you the racist landscaping company? I’m looking for one, thanks.”

Sorry.

Before I became a freedom-loving cartoonist and writer, I used to be an architect in training.

I got my Master’s Degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley, and as I said, I was a member of CASA. Our purpose was to give each other support as Latino students at a big, daunting and prestigious university, and to form relationships with professionals in our intended profession. Field trips to firms often led to internships, experience and future employment.

To be an architect, or a landscape...

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Blatant Racism displayed by owner of Berkeley-based Sachi Landscape