A sign in front of the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar on Highway 113 in Paulding County, Georgia has residents steaming, as it uses a racial slur to refer to President Barack Obama.
The sign in front of the bar reads:
“I do not support the N*gger in the White House.”
Local resident Carl Norman spoke with MyFox Atlanta and said:
“This world is supposed to be a peaceful world, not a world with hatred. This shouldn’t be here today.”
Bar owner Patrick Lanzo says he’s posted controversial signs outside his bar and restaurant for 26 years and says he’s practicing free speech.
According to Lanzo:
“I say just because you’re offended by it doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to say something just the opposite.”
Lanzo said he doesn’t feel any remorse over the sign:
“I don’t feel bad about anything whatsoever. Therefore, they can go out and put their own sign in their own yard and I will not be offended.”
The entire ordeal is ironic considering that a list of house rules inside of Lanzo’s bar says ‘no foul language.’
Paulding County Administrator Mike Jones says he’s well aware of the sign and considers it repulsive, embarrassing and offensive. He says if there were something they could do about it, it wouldn’t be there.
