Yes, Indybay Goes for a New Low!

Another week, another example of the Indybay crowd and the activist types in Santa Cruz simply not getting it.

“I WAS JUST CITED WITH THE Unconstitutional Parking Lot Ordinance JIM CROW LAW” - Andreas Nicholas

Wow, this Parking Lot Ordinance issued in Santa Cruz must be beyond terrible to have it compared to one of the worst legal injustices in United States history. So what does the Parking Lot Ordinance dictate?

“When parking a motor vehicle or bicycle in, or retrieving a motor vehicle or bicycle from, a parking lot or garage owned or operated by the City of Santa Cruz, no member of the public, whether driver or passenger, shall remain on the parking lot or garage premises for more than fifteen (15) minutes.”

The horror! It makes these laws seem like summer camp in contrast:

"All marriages between a white person and a Negro, or between a white person and a person of Negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited."

"All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license."

"White and colored persons shall not be taught in the same school."

Wait…this parking lot ban is absolutely nothing like the Jim Crow laws! Why would Andreas Nicholas make such a baseless and morally repulsive comparison?

Oh, I know why: because this brand of “activist” desperately wants to think they are standing up to a terrible evil in their petty and pointless battles, and so they place themselves on a pedestal with real activist heroes, who took huge risks to fight a truly unjust and immoral legal system. Folks like Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, and James Farmer Jr. (amongst countless other men and women) risked their lives and the safety of their families to push for justice. Folks like Andreas are just children who whine and cry because they can’t hang out in a parking lot to annoy the neighborhood with their shitty drum circle.

This is the type of thing that drove me crazy when I lived in Santa Cruz, and made it very easy to leave soon after my studies were completed. To compare getting a ticket for spending too long sitting around a parking lot with the Civil Rights movement is not only disrespectful, but disgraceful. It belittles an important struggle to even place this kind of bullshit in its vicinity. So Andreas Nicholas, I hope you are proud of yourself! You just wrote one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, and you did it with a straight face. Your certificate of achievement will be sent later this month.



See Andreas, those men are real heroes. You’re just some child that is too busy fighting every single rule the Santa Cruz city council sets that you aren’t even cognitive of the fact you are a living joke.