[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hat happens when you wear a "multicolor fiesta serape"and oversized sombrero costume, paint-on a mustache, and walk around the streets of the most contentious anti-gentrification neighborhood in Los Angeles? You get checked, that’s what.
On the evening of Tuesday, June 25, YouTubers Daniela Banikova and Kimo Basha learned this the hard way, while trying to get some sensationalistic content about “cultural appropriation” for their channel.
They arrived at Mariachi Plaza along 1st Street in Boyle Heights, with Kimo wearing an offensive costume based on early 20th Century stereotypes of “Mexican,” complete with a drawn-on mustache. But one local wasn’t having it.