http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6792876Oh my.
The primitives in righteous sputtering indignation.
The restaurant's in Georgia, but the primitives discuss Arizona instead.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:35 PM
Original message
Red state hell, this restaurant sign is in my county..
You really want to know what it's like to be a liberal and live in a very red area of a red state?
Probably not, but I'm going to show you anyway. I drove past this same sign worded differently but with the same offensive term on it a few months back, it is kind of off the beaten path in my county so I hadn't seen it before.
after which a photograph of the sign
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/21245741/detail.html#
Restaurant Sign Attacking Obama Sparks Race Debate
Restaurant Owner Opposes Obama Healthcare Plan
TEMPLE, Ga. -- When you walk into the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, you feel like you've walked into a different era.
Behind the pool tables stands a mannequin in a Klu Klux Klan costume, but it's what's outside of the Patrick Lanzo's restaurant that has some people angry.
Lanzo put up a sign that reads "Obama's plan for health-care: N*&%*r rig it."
CBS Atlanta's Michelle Marsh asked Lanzo why he put up the sign.
<snip>
More at the link.
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:37 PM
Response to Original message
1. And I though living in Arizona was political hell. You got me beat.
That sign is vile.
Alexander (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:40 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. Now, come on, let's be fair. Arizona IS hell.
At least Maricopa County.
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. Hey there...
Well, kinda.
Alexander (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:07 PM
Response to Reply #6
12. This cartoon sums up my feelings about the area:
after which a crude cartoon bashing Arizona
Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:22 PM
Response to Reply #12
20. We should do an AZ DU meetup so we can have a nice. long, healthy bitch.
Alexander (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:28 PM
Response to Reply #20
21. We should do it quickly, because I'm moving out of here soon
And I'm not coming back, except for occasional visits.
PM me if you want.
Quantess (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:38 PM
Response to Original message
2. Since you live in the area and have a good idea about the residents, do you think this sign will affect his business? If so, do you think it will draw more customers or make people go elsewhere?
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #2
7. He's had the same word up for months, since before the health care thing.
One side of my county is mixed race and relatively suburban, the other side is mostly white and rural to semi rural, this is in the latter part of the county.
So no, it won't hurt his business any more than it already has been.
It might even bring in more.
The primitive getting out of Arizona, again:
Alexander (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:38 PM
Response to Original message
3. I hear that word a lot here in Arizona.
Back home I practically never heard it. I'm glad to be getting out of here.
Of course, one of my cousins in Georgia drapes a Confederate flag in his room, wears a Faux News baseball cap and blathers on about preserving his "heritage".
Disgusting, but not surprising.
guitar man (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:39 PM
Response to Original message
4. I don't support vandalism
But I think I could make an exception in that case
LuvNewcastle (709 posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:43 PM
Response to Original message
8. A Klansman with an oyster house
I hope he gets hepatitis.
Hansel (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 02:57 PM
Response to Original message
10. Are these folks really so stupid that they don't understand that the word not does not mean the same thing as definitely.
Despite the sign, Lanzo said he's not a racist.
Vexatious Ape (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:00 PM
Response to Original message
11. More red state hell
I live in Georgia as well. Did ya know that both of our distinguished Senators voted pro-rape a few days ago?
Initech (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:09 PM
Response to Original message
13. Wow and I thought Orange County was freeperville central.
redqueen (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:09 PM
Response to Original message
14. The NAACP is spot on.
The West Metro NAACP issued this statement: This latest ploy for attention by Mr. Lanzo is not surprising. What is of concern however, is the total lack of leadership and action from the elected officials of Paulding County, who repeatedly have allowed this type of toxic public display.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:14 PM
Response to Reply #14
16. I'm not sure I know what the county could do..
It's not *illegal* to use that word or phrase and if they try to use code enforcement or health department it could get ugly real fast.
redqueen (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:20 PM
Response to Reply #16
19. Politicians are always grandstanding.
Talking about morals this and values that. Nothing to do with what's illegal or not.
Their silence says volumes.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #19
35. I suspect they would lose more votes than they would gain by doing that..
And the great majority of politicians are craven at their core really.
Very few want to rock the boat and making a public issue of this would be definite boat rocking.
rurallib (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:12 PM
Response to Original message
15. Does he realize it could hurt his chances to buy the Falcons?
Hepburn (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:15 PM
Response to Original message
18. Neanderthals....
...wonder what their nicks are on Free Republic...
Absolutely disgusting.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:31 PM
Response to Reply #18
23. Neanderthals had a larger brain than modern humans..
And there are a great many people around here who never even _heard_ of Neanderthals.
And primitives on Skins's island have smaller brains than modern humans.
Hepburn (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:36 PM
Response to Reply #23
26. Good points....
...I feel for you having to deal with bigots like that.
The worse sign I have seen here in SoCal is: OBAMA 100% CRAP. Kinda pales a whole bunch compared to that restaurant sign.
The best sign franksolich ever saw is actually eleven miles away from here.
A circa 1940s manure spreader by the side of the highway.
With a large sign, "0BAMA'S STIMULUS PLAN."
kitkat65 (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:30 PM
Response to Original message
22. There's got to be an appropriate anagram with those letters somewhere
Help me out, folks.
RubyDuby in GA (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:35 PM
Response to Reply #22
24. Or those types of letters can easily be found at any local hardware store,
I'm just sayin'...
Perhaps its time that some enterprising youth have a little fun with Mr. I'm Not A Racist (wink wink nudge nudge, let me just readjust my klan hat).
appleannie1 (895 posts) Fri Oct-16-09 04:07 PM
Response to Reply #24
34. Change to BIG RACIST PIG MAGGOT HERE Then throw the rest away.
RubyDuby in GA (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:36 PM
Response to Original message
25. I have nothing to add about the extreme shame these idiots bring to us, other than to say that its time for the GA DUers to get together again.
I miss my peeps! I'm heading to the GA forum to take suggestions for dates. Meet me there.
I dunno if this is the same "Andy" primitive--there's lot of Andy primitives on Skins's island--who asked by Bo couldn't just fire Harry Reid and Bela Pelosi:
AndyA (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:39 PM
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27. That's awful.
I don't think anything like that would be tolerated even here in red Oklahoma, but I could be wrong.
Feron (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:40 PM
Response to Original message
28. One positive thing about these displays:
They help me identify which businesses I will never, ever patronize.
jmondine (933 posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:49 PM
Response to Reply #28
29. They also show the right wing for what it is...
... and further alienate freepers and teabaggers from the mainstream of this country.
This picture should go viral, and be held up as a shining example of modern "conservative" values.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:54 PM
Response to Reply #29
32. That's basically why I posted it..
To let others see what it's like out here.
In many ways my county really is a pretty nice place to live but we have a substantial minority who are getting pretty far around the bend.
I'm just showing you how far around the bend some of these people are.
alarimer (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:51 PM
Response to Original message
30. I feel your pain.
Texas is a real special piece of hell.
"If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd rent out hell and live in Texas" (although that person may have been speaking of the real climate, not the political climate but I think it fits).
bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 03:52 PM
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31. I'd get on my high horse about living in Iowa, but then I'd have to admit that a portion of my state is actually represented by that cretinous yahoo, Steve King!
He's probably sorry that he didn't think of it first!
Oh now, Steve King's a nice guy, the salt of the earth, a great guy.
The anagrammic primitive figures out something:
kitkat65 (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 04:03 PM
Response to Original message
33. Here we go
A GREAT FOOL ENABLING HIS GRIM HATE CRAP
I have an R and A leftover - oh, well!
sufrommich (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-16-09 05:10 PM
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36. So before this godawful sign went up, the patrons of this establishment were OK with the "mannequin in a Klu Klux Klan costume"? Nice.
