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Cobb County Bar Protested For 'Racist' Obama T-Shirts
UPDATED: 5:59 pm EDT May 13, 2008



ATLANTA -- A Marietta tavern owner says the T-shirts he's selling that feature a cartoon chimp peeling a banana with the words "Obama '08" should not be causing any problems.
"This is 2008. If this was 1940-something, maybe. I don't see the big deal, I really don't," Mulligan's owner Mike Norman told Channel 2.
But many people do think it's a big deal. Critics say the shirts are an offensive stereotype from generations past.
"GALEO condemns the t-shirt as racist and highly offensive. As a private business, Mulligan's is free to conduct business as it chooses. However, as a community, we must unite against such intolerance. The t-shirt being sold is highly offensive and should not be sold any further," said Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director for the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials in a statement.
The Anti-Defamation League also condemned the T-shirt being sold, saying it's, "An outrageous slur against Barack Obama and all African Americans."
"Mike Norman - the bar's owner - pretends he is shocked that people would be offended by the T-shirt," said Bill Nigut, ADL's Southeast Regional Director. "But he knows full well that the characterization of African Americans as monkeys is a highly offensive stereotype. Every time he sells one of the shirts he is happily sending a racist message out the door."
Channel 2's Manuel Bojorquez asked Norman why he chose Curious George. "I thought, man, look at those ears and his hair line and that's what I saw. I didn't see anything offensive," Norman said. He said he was not a racist.
Norman added the money from the sale of the shirts was being donated to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
"It's their right to protest my right to have that to say," Norman said. "I've had a lot of threatening calls. It's just a lot of stupidity."

Somebody need to put up a poster of a black farmer standing by a scraped hog. We can send the money from the sale to Myanmar.

ONLY THING, WE DONT WANT TO BE LIKE THEM RACIST BIATCHES.....LOL

I watched Special Victims Unit the other night and they refer to Africans as Bush Monkeys. That T Shirt was designed by a person who is a member of or connected to White Supremacists Group.

You know what? I actually see the ears and hairline similarity.

But It is just stupidity to think that the use of that monkey would not be quickly associated with the derogative connotation it has always held for black people.

I can't believe anyone could be so stupid in this age of enlightenment, but anything is possible. I am more inclined to believe that he knew and simply saw dollar signs, because he also knew how stupid people are in this age of enlightenment.

Funny, I met with someone from GALEO just last night and this matter did not come up. However, on my way from the airport to my hotel, I heard it being talked about on the radio. I definitely think it is purposefil and racist.

gadyu wrote:

I watched Special Victims Unit the other night and they refer to Africans as Bush Monkeys. That T Shirt was designed by a person who is a member of or connected to White Supremacists Group.

One of my favorite shows. I saw that episode when they called us bush monkeys and that is exactly what they were alluding to. Blacks has been known has monkeys since the first white man set foot on the African continent.

I find this shirt offensive...

Racist written all over it