Patrick Lanzo, Georgia Bar Owner, Calls Obama 'N*****' On Road Sign Again

[Galraedia]

Source: Huffington Post

Georgia bar owner Patrick Lanzo of Paulding County has made habit of claiming he's not racist, an argument that becomes harder to make each time he decides to display the n-word on a large roadside sign outside his establishment, the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar.

Lanzo's latest message reads, "I do not support the n***** in the White House." He recently told a local reporter that the offensive wording was not meant to be racist.

"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, according to a report from Atlanta's Fox 5. “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.”

Controversy is nothing new to Lanzo, who seems to bask in the negative attention each time he posts a new inflammatory message.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/patrick-lanzo-georgia-bar-n-word-sign_n_1475288.html?ref=politics

[Fearless]

1. Link?

[Galraedia]

2. It's up.

Sorry about that.

[Fearless]

3. Thanks, no problem, just wondering!

[coalition_unwilling]

4. Wow! There are times I wish Sherman had salted the

earth of Georgia (and South Carolina) and this is one of them.

[backwoodsbob]

22. hey now

we aren't all bad down here

[coalition_unwilling]

26. I know. Seeing stories like this really

pisses me off and makes me see red. (Ancestors fought for the Union at Gettysburg and other assorted battlefields.)

[marble falls]

29. And members of my family fought for the South, the sign is still offensive.....

and is a good(?) simple example of hate speech.

[era veteran]

28. The South might not have had as many troubles

if Sherman had not done total war on American civilians.
Bashing the South for one person.
Hard to change with help like this from other 'liberals'. This regional bias S H O U L D N O T have a place on DU!

[kentauros]

33. As a Native Texan,

I wholeheartedly agree that regionalism has no place on DU. For us, all any of our native idiots have to do is mention (jokingly or not) that they'd like us to secede. Well, look out! Suddenly there are scads of DUers that agree with that sentiment. Never mind what our seceding would do to the nation's economy.

I get the feeling that for some DUers, the Civil War never ended...

[coalition_unwilling]

35. The south might not have had as many troubles if PGT

Beauregard hadn't committed treason against the US at Fort Sumter.

[era veteran]

39. I agree with that whole heartedly!

I have stated on DU before Those Charleston boys got drunk and started the war. Then stayed home for "coastal defense" the rest of the war. I lived in Augusta Ga when I was a kid and WT Sherman was hated by many.

[tabasco]

36. Well, they might not have had so many troubles

if they hadn't started the war in the first place.

[groundloop]

37. Thank you era veteran, well stated.

I live in the same county as that idiot. When you insult Georgia, or even just this county, you're also insulting me and my family. Hatred won't change peoples minds, no matter which side it's coming from. Not everyone here is like that, and in fact he's in a very small minority which is getting smaller.

[ieoeja]

38. And, yet, in contemporary accounts Sherman was praised by the South.

At the first city he reached on his march to the Atlantic he found the people starving despite the fact that they lived in the breadbasket of the South. As Confederate money had become worthless, the urban citizens were finding it difficult to buy food from the plantation owners (whose war it really was). So Sherman sent his men out to strip the plantations and feed the southerners in the cities.

In newspaper reports, letters, diaries, etc of the time, many of these southerners hailed Sherman. The Union army was cheered as they left these cities to continue their march.

But the plantation owners had a lot to complain about. They were the leading figures. And they were the ones writing the histories, not the owners of Mom & Pop stores in the towns. In addition, the Confederate generals and politicians put out massive amounts of memoirs trying to shift the blame and figure out how the vaunted Normans with their Celtic allies could have lost to a war to the inferior Anglo-Saxon.


*Note* the march through South Carolina was another thing altogether. Sherman did level South Carolina in punishment for starting the war.

[Hoyt]

5. SOB - I remember hearing folks like that when a kid. They always said they weren't racists.

A number still do, and it doesn't fool anyone.

[freshwest]

6. Exactly what is Lanzo Bozo's definition of the word, then? Not me?

[1620rock]

7. Yeah,I wish Sherman had burned the whold damn state down.

[era veteran]

27. Bullshit response

Are you advocating killing everybody there too?

[steve2470]

8. This racist supposedly belongs to the NAACP

http://www.gapeachbar.com/founder.html

Lower right hand corner.... surely a joke/photoshopped card. Lots more racism on this site.

[They_Live]

13. Wow

My eyes! I can't un-see that. They have a cartoon of a Klansman pissing on Obama as he munches on fried chicken and watermelon.

"the origional (sic) Klan, Klam, & Oyster BAR!"

[SunSeeker]

21. Yikes. I wish I didn't click on that.

TheyLive warned me, but did I listen? Noooooo.



I was surprised to see he used his evil sign once to promote pot legalization. Just goes to show there's a little good in every man. In his case, though, it's really little.

[provis99]

9. he's not racist, he just hates black people!

I wonder what this guy's freeper username is?

[Grassy Knoll]

10. The T Party...

Repigs will say Dems started the KKK, and they did, but what they don't admit is Dems
stopped being that way, and repigs picked up the torch for southern votes and never looked back.

[BootinUp]

18. You mean the bigots used to join the Dem party before they left it. nt

[KamaAina]

11. He couldn't possibly have meant Obama

he must have some sort of grudge against a black guy who works there as an appointment secretary or something.

[bluesbassman]

12. No, not a racist. Not at all...

Your actions disagree with you.

[Flatulo]

14. It's hard for me to imagine such an asshole existing, but there you go.

I wouldn't mind one bit if he got his cracker ass beaten. Not one bit.

[iandhr]

15. I am not a racist

kind of like this

[The Wizard]

16. OK, bigot

Would he accept the bigot title?

[BootinUp]

17. "Lanzo - Worlds biggest ASSHOLE!"

That sign comes to my mind.

[NCcoast]

19. Now, now, this slack jawed, booger eatin' moron has the right....

to flaunt his back woods, cousin lovin', spit stained idiocy for all to see. And the fact that he's got himself a big sign just makes the fool easier to identify and avoid.

[libodem]

24. They out themselves this way

How else would you ever know someone is capable of thinking something that vile. Good to know. Sick and alarming but I'd rather be aware of what I'm dealing with.

[Quantess]

20. Looks like he's a troll of the real-world.

Not one to waste his time with internet discussions.

[Archae]

23. This guy is a child.

He's putting up his signs to get attention.
Nothing more.

On the Internet he'd be called a troll.

[libodem]

25. yep

[JoePhilly]

30. Some one should tell him only sissies make signs like that.

His head would explode.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

31. The place is really packed, isn't it?

.

[SemperEadem]

32. well, he's got customers

who come in and spend money so that he can go buy these "toys". If they didn't agree with his sentiment, they wouldn't be there spending the rent money.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

34. I'm glad Lanzo's not a racist ...

... or he might have posted a really, really, objectionable sign. A sign that would have been an embarrassment to his neighborhood.

[guitar man]

40. My guess is

He likes seeing his name in the news..looks like he's getting what he wants