Posted on 11/11/2008 12:27:59 AM PST by VeniVidiVici
OCALA, Fla. -- The owners of an Ocala business are accused of taking a racist swipe at president-elect Barack Obama. The NAACP of Florida calls the message on the company's marquee "horrific" and "insensitive."
Last year, the same fence company and auto shop was accused of using its sign to ridicule people with disabilities. What they've posted now, some call free speech and others call an outrage.
"That's like racist right there," one resident told Eyewitness News.
"Why do they feel like they have the right to just put it out there. There's kids that come by here. There's a high school," another person said.
(The company) eventually sent out an African American employee who said his boss is no racist. "Me being a black guy, a black guy can be president, a black guy can put a thing up on a sign, he can do whatever he wants," the man said.
The president of Florida's NAACP begs to differ, calling the statement insensitive and horrific.
The company puts a different message on its sign every week.
I love this!
“Obama may not have come from a ghetto”
Have you ever been to kenya?
LLS
Yes, the sign is offensive, redneck, horrible, unkind, uncaring, distasteful.
That's why I like it :)!
Great! I love coffee on my keyboard this early in the morning!! :)
Just an interesting side note. The news channel that is reporting this WFTV channel 9 in Orlando was the same one that had the reporter that grilled Biden. The Obama camp refused to do anything with them after that event. I wonder if they are feeling guilty now by running a story about a sign in a city over an hour and a half away from them. Maybe they are trying to get back into the good graces of the libs??
Hmmmmmmm....
“Those darn liberal retirees did us in...........j/k! LOL”
11 posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 10:48:12 PM by SoldiersSister (SoldiersSister)
Any of them “retired liberals” been hangin out at Gator Joe’s lately? LOL /S
Aloha kakou
“from the ghetto”
The president of Florida's NAACP begs to differ, calling the statement insensitive and horrific.
How revealing.
There’s kids that come by here. There’s a high school,”
From what I see coming out of high school no need to worry they cant read it anyway.
Well, because... *ahem* THEY DO.
Can't say that I know that. Where is Gator Joe's? Sounds like a cool place! I do know that you have to avoid the Golden Coral and Barnhill's at all costs if you don't want those liberal retirees to mow you down!
I won’t tell you. You can find out for yourself. :(
huh?
The link was for SSister, sorry about the confusion, now I feel like a democrat! /s
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