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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:34 PM Sep 2012

Georgia Bar Mulligan's Faces Backlash From Civil Rights Group After Posting Racist Obama Sign

Source: Huffington Post

Georgia Bar Mulligan's Faces Backlash From Civil Rights Group After Posting Racist Obama Sign
The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 09/19/2012 1:18 pm Updated: 09/19/2012 1:23 pm

A civil rights group in Georgia says it will proceed with a demonstration against a bar in the state notorious for posting racially inflammatory messages on a roadside sign, even after the establishment removed its latest controversial statement.

Gerald Rose, founder of the New Order National Human Rights Organization, announced plans earlier this month to hold a sit-in at Mulligan's Food & Spirits in Marietta, Ga. in response to its decision to post a sign that read, "I heard the White House smelled like collard greens and fried chicken."

Mulligan's has since taken down the message, ReddingNewsReview.com reports, but that hasn't swayed Rose.

"I don't trust them," Rose told the outlet. "Even though they took down the sign we are still going to keep our eyes open and move forward with our protest."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/georgia-bar-mulligans-racist-sign_n_1897226.html

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Georgia Bar Mulligan's Faces Backlash From Civil Rights Group After Posting Racist Obama Sign (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2012 OP

The stupid! It hurts! sakabatou Sep 2012 #1

Cobb County, Georgia -- very red, very bigoted. Sad group of souls. Hoyt Sep 2012 #2

Yeah ... Gen. Sherman sure left a lot to be done there. TahitiNut Sep 2012 #3

I don't think Sherman has much to do with Congressmen Gingrich, Gingrey, and Price's bigotry. Hoyt Sep 2012 #4

Cobb County = Newt Gingrich seat Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #6

I worked in Cobb County for 13 years until 2010 RebelOne Sep 2012 #9

One can look at the legislators elected there. Hoyt Sep 2012 #12

What would you know about it? You're Canadian. friendly_iconoclast Sep 2012 #16

Wrong again. I hope you are more perceptive when packing. Hoyt Sep 2012 #17

Perhaps you're not Canadian-but you're also not a part of Georgia culture, either: friendly_iconoclast Sep 2012 #18

My friend, you really need to work on perception -- I do not desire to be like typical Georgians. Hoyt Sep 2012 #19

Forget (as you call them) "typical Georgians"-what about the progressive ones? friendly_iconoclast Sep 2012 #23

""I heard the White House smelled like collard greens and fried chicken." Cha Sep 2012 #5

Just jealous they weren't invited to have some homebrew at the White House. OTOH... freshwest Sep 2012 #13

.. Cha Sep 2012 #15

And I heard Mulligan's smells like beac Sep 2012 #7

Racism is alive and well in the South mountain grammy Sep 2012 #8

Do you live in the South? RebelOne Sep 2012 #10

not any more but I did.. mountain grammy Sep 2012 #14

Dammit! PD Turk Sep 2012 #11

Paging Lester Maddox - your racist legacy pines for you jpak Sep 2012 #20

Exactly how Lester's resturaunt smelled. n/t Mopar151 Sep 2012 #21

Rush is confusing his listeners Mopar151 Sep 2012 #22

That place would be bulldozed Shankapotomus Sep 2012 #24

sakabatou

(42,148 posts)

1. The stupid! It hurts!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:35 PM

Sep 2012

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. Cobb County, Georgia -- very red, very bigoted. Sad group of souls.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:44 PM

Sep 2012

TahitiNut

(71,611 posts)

3. Yeah ... Gen. Sherman sure left a lot to be done there.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:00 PM

Sep 2012

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

4. I don't think Sherman has much to do with Congressmen Gingrich, Gingrey, and Price's bigotry.

Reply to TahitiNut (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:17 PM

Sep 2012

Voters do however.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,995 posts)

6. Cobb County = Newt Gingrich seat

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:36 PM

Sep 2012

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

9. I worked in Cobb County for 13 years until 2010

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:37 PM

Sep 2012

and had never seen any signs of bigotry or racism. I can say the same for the very red county of Cherokee where I live.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

12. One can look at the legislators elected there.

Reply to RebelOne (Reply #9)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 07:46 PM

Sep 2012

Confederate flags are a sign too, as is loser in OP. Cobb was also home of Georgia's last "openly" racist gubnor - Lester Maddox.

But I grew up with this crud.

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

16. What would you know about it? You're Canadian.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 06:16 PM

Sep 2012

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

17. Wrong again. I hope you are more perceptive when packing.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #16)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 06:19 PM

Sep 2012

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

18. Perhaps you're not Canadian-but you're also not a part of Georgia culture, either:

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #17)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 07:53 PM

Sep 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/117217244#post36

And, no I'm not part of the Georgia culture. Far from it.

So them sum total of your efforts against those assholes amounts to "Strongly worded denunciations on an Internet forum (where people already agree with me)"

Can we say "keyboard commando"?...

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

19. My friend, you really need to work on perception -- I do not desire to be like typical Georgians.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #18)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 08:53 PM

Sep 2012

I would hope most here feel the same way.

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

23. Forget (as you call them) "typical Georgians"-what about the progressive ones?

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #19)

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 03:40 AM

Sep 2012

And another thing- if you can not or will not engage in Georgia society, you have no hope whatsoever of persuading waverers that, yes, the Democratic Party is looking out
for their best interests...

Cha

(297,154 posts)

5. ""I heard the White House smelled like collard greens and fried chicken."

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:22 PM

Sep 2012

So? MF, what's your point?

Poor thing..so depraved and deprived.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

13. Just jealous they weren't invited to have some homebrew at the White House. OTOH...

Reply to Cha (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 08:23 PM

Sep 2012

I wish my place smelled like collard greens and fried chicken with gravy and mashed potatoes. With a skillet of whole grain yellow cornbread on the side and for dessert, fresh strawberries, whipped cream and short cake. Fat chance of that. Oh, well, I can dream, can't I...

Cha

(297,154 posts)

15. ..

Reply to freshwest (Reply #13)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:13 PM

Sep 2012

beac

(9,992 posts)

7. And I heard Mulligan's smells like

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:01 PM

Sep 2012

stale beer, vomit, urine and FEAR.

mountain grammy

(26,619 posts)

8. Racism is alive and well in the South

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:04 PM

Sep 2012

The culture of slavery and apartheid has never really disappeared in the South. To keep people compliant, keep them poor and dumb, and always remind them they are better than whoever they should hate, fear, or own. Ownership of another human being requires a mindset that doesn't see that slave as a human being. That's been the motto of the South pre and post Civil War. But it is changing.. Change comes a lot slower than most of us would like.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

10. Do you live in the South?

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #8)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:40 PM

Sep 2012

I live in North Georgia and things have changed here quite a bit in the past few years.

mountain grammy

(26,619 posts)

14. not any more but I did..

Reply to RebelOne (Reply #10)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:46 PM

Sep 2012

Segregated North Carolina as a kid 8 years in Texas as an adult. Have spent the better part of the last year in southwest Texas caring for my father-in-law and it's still pretty racist around here. I know the south has changed for the better, but it's still solid red and haters abound. Here in SW Texas, there are more Latinos than whites, but the vote will be solid Republican.