If it was meant to be racist, they woulda said WATERMELON!

80% of their customers are meth or pill addicts. Uneducated drug addicted hillbilly's!!!

I'm personally happy to hear that he occasionally eats a little soul food (Not that those ingrates could ever step foot into the White House). However. we don't have to worry about how it smells where old Norman is, since he dropped dead last October. It's the sperm he donated that keeping the haterd going and maybe they will follow him soon!

I'm black and it is clearly racist. Fuzzy Zellar commented something similar when Tiger Woods won Augusta. He was the first black man to win the masters and Barack Obama is the first black man to be president. All black people don't eat fried chicken and collard greens contrary to what white people think. The resturant didn't make any comments about the white house smelling like fruit salad and cottage cheese when George Bush or any other white man was president.

To MS. SUGAR!!! You speak of sprem and hatred being spread, But you wish two bright, beautiful mothers of children dead? It is their absolute right to continue to spread the beleifs of their father and how he ran his bar!! Mike Norman was kind and genorous! In his opinion he was tired of illegals taking money and jobs from hard working americans and had no need for the "CHANGE" obama promised! When have you sat at the white house with the leader of the free world? probably not anytime recently, since he has spent over a million dollars in the last year on vacations!!!! Mike norman held toy drives and charity events for the needy and under privalged instead of taking vacations and spending money that americans these days would die for!!! As for calling Mike norman a sprem donor you must not know that these days 1\3 of children born will live lives without a father and 1\3 of men "Donate sperm" and do not take care of their own blood! MIKE NORMAN WAS NOT A SPERM DONOR!!! He Raised His girls with respect and values their whole lives and left them with a legacy to uphold! FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!

Sorry repubnut but my moms was the best fried chicken . None could touch . She was not black but just a great cook who took the time to make things right for her family as we where growing up. She could cook everything under the sun and do it better then most. You don't have to be black to love Southern Fried Chicken nor do you have to black to cook it well. But you do have to love to cook and do it with love.

Now take Jay he is a raciest you can tell by his hillbilly comment.

You want to see hate go no further then the New Black Panther Party or the NAACP. Both are out dated civil rights groups that push anything but civil rights. I wonder how MLK would feel today if he saw these two groups still acting like raciest in a time when a Black person is in the White House not cleaning it but as the President. So many have overcome the past but it seems the past in the form of the Black Panthers and NAACP is out for blood and using past race problems as their mantra to gain support among the young blacks in America. If you dont like what is said in places like Mulligans then dont do bussness with them. I wonder how blacks can say the things they do about whites and others but want them to keep their mouth shut when they say the same of them. MLK had a dream and the Panthers and the NAACP have made a nightmare out of it. Yes I supported MLK as a young civll rights leader back in the day and I am white and Southern born.

Funny how everyone goes after this lil hole in the wall place but yet say or do nothing about that horrid wanna be comedian Paul Mooney. Everything that spews from that racist mans mouth is about nothing but bashing whites. Oh but that's all okay he talks like that because it's "entertainment" . He's all over YOUtube with his idiotic, white bashing, foul mouthed hatred. Both of them need to grow up & stop spreading hate.

Juelz - You probably know more about Paul Mooney than most black people do. I bet if you walked up to any black younger than 40 they wouldn't even know who you were talking about. He's 71 years old! Funny how you have selective memory about his jokes. He does a lot more than bash whites, in fact, his jokes are profanity laced and constantly use the "N" word. But he's not putting sign out in front of a restaurant. This falls under the comparing apples to oranges category.

L A Hays the guy is dead and his daughters now run the place and yes they are following in his foots steps as is their right. Did you even read the article before you came on and started spreading your bull . I have seen far worse in large city's with a large democrat base then I have ever seen in Marietta on any road or street. Ignorance is all around and I find it mostly in rapers and black comady stars who seem to be able to say what they wish without someone saying a word about it. Ya you are one of those that complains when it is about a subject about which you care for but let others give a opinion and you act like a total dumbzza. Reverse the last three letters of dumbzza and that is what you are.

Amy, THANK YOU! I completely agree.

Amy since youa re from the South that may be your interpretation. However, I can assure you that is not the case. As I mentioned in another post, the same type of comment was lobbed at Tiger Woods when he won the Masters in 2001 by Fuzzy Zoeller. It's meant to be derogatory. People have this notion that blacks just love fried chicken, collard greens and watermelon. And whenever any of the two or three are used in referring to a black person, it's not a compliment. If you don't understand it, I'm black and I'm telling you it is. If that wasn't the case why would anyone be upset about it?

As a transplanted northerner, I always thought fried chicken and collard greens meant you were a Southerner. I never thought it pointed at our fellow black citizens. In fact many northerners still consider the folks down here to be backward, incestuous beings. I suspect those who see insults to black folks in it are prejudiced themselves and even worse--they are people who want to decide what word they think are acceptable. Where does it end?

I hear and see a lot of stuff I do not agree with. I support the First Amendment and you have to whether you want to or not. (Thank God.)

Obama and Tiger are not black people they are of mixed race and are just as much white and Asian as they are black. To say other wise is being raciest.

Love, love, love this response. One of the only intelligent ones in this whole thread!

Joel the fact is it will continue and there is probably nothing that can be done. They aren't worried about the business of anyone upset with the message, because experience has proven that it doesn't hurt their business. No one in their right might who opposes the message would eat there so basically it's a wash. The only thing that anyone can do is ignore it and move on.

Only intelligent response here!

I disagree with you racism is against man, Gays are against God's law

Yes David, I was thinking the same thing.
At least when these businesses come out as the true bigots they are, we the Thinking Class can avoid them like the plague.
Only those who are of like mind, i.e. Other Bigots, racists, homophobes, sexists, etc., will support such blatently bigotry.
And then we REALLY get to know our neighbors.
I bet it would be an interesting, but not surprizing demographic who regularly supports this place.
Oh and Charles, God isn't writing up the laws of Cobb County, or anywhere else in our Great State. So leave him out of your arguement, lest we think you one of "those people."

David your comment about Chick fil A is totally irrevelant to this topic. The root word in racism is race not sexual orientation or preference.

David.
Terrific comment.

Hi Charles I am also from Miami and i do know that its not tolerated, some people have not had real life experiences so they tend to act and say foolish things...trust me when I tell you this, if the shoe was on the other foot those very same people will be calling someone's' hotline for prayer! God bless

How many people tried to stop the rape of that girl? If others were around whether any race should have tried to stop it or called 911.

Thanks Valerie,
it just makes me sick and stupid why they hate any races as we are all God's creation and workmanship.

Alice,
When all those White cops were acquitted of murder in Tampa, the black community rioted to show their were not going to allow injustice, and that girl was raped and pulled off a school bus in Liberty city were no whites go. There was nothing to do when people have guns and force they had to call in the Florida National Guard because the police could do nothing.

Alice,
you obviously have never been to a very big city where crime and racial diversity have come to your door for if you did you would understand one simple word, RIOT!

I have lived in the Atlanta area most of my life. I am in my 50's so I believe I have lived where crime and racial diversity have come to my door. I lived in Houston for 10 years and it was full of crime and racial diversity. I lived in S. Texas where I was a minority in a very small town. I could not have been treated better than the hispanics treated me. Crime? Check out our jails and prisons, see what is the ratio of races in there. I myself have never commited a crime unless you can count I ran a yellow light one time. I never remember a riot in Cobb County. There were none in Houston either. I have no reason to riot.

Alice,Cobb County has always kept under the radar for violating people civil rights or the police bully people into submission. I am also in my 50's but lived all across this globe and served in military and for Obama to half-way correct all the Republican debacle from the worst president in history George W. Bush whom doesn't deserve the time of day, you have to let him half way respect him and let him at least try. I would not ever vote Republican my parents were both Republican and remember their backwards thinking in the 60's, God save the world from the Republicans and God save all those from Cobb County thinking.

Charles Cobb county is made up mostly of Yankees Mexicans Blacks so I do not know where you get you info from. As for hating Jews I am a Southerner by birth and have NO problems with the Jewish people. After all my Lord was Jewish and died a Jew. I stood for civil rights in the 60s and still do today but as long as one side thinks they can act raciest (rappers and black comedians to name a few) we will have to live with the other side being able to reply like wise. My old mentor JFK
would roll over in his grave if he say how his Dream has turned into a nightmare due to how people who once where by his side are acting now.

Not if I can help it.

Alice, I am with you & I sure hope & pray a lot more people are going to do the same thing come November! After the embassy attacks in Egypt and Libya yesterday & his pathetic 1:23 "speech" from the "ROSE GARDEN", I am now in complete disgust & WILL NEVER vote for him again. I for the first time, actually regret my vote. He is ripping this wonderful country apart piece by piece.

PERichardson - Amen. And unless there is a change in November, he will be for another four years. But until then, he needs to be shown respect.

I love my (our) President and he definitely has my vote Alice amd Juelz!

PERichardson yes he is the President of the U.S and I respect the office but can not respect the man in the office not due to color but because he has done nothing to help us get out of our current problems and has caused more problems with his $6trillion in added debt (most ever done by any President even Bush caused less debt in his 8 years then Obama) When will people learn to see what he is doing to this country and right in front of their eyes. Yes is seems the Kool Aid is not only making them stupid but causing them to go blind as well .

C.Vinson out of curiosity why on earth should I show him respect until Nov. He's had 4 yrs to show America some respect & has failed to do so. Well, unless you can count his "beer summit" or golf trips or family vacations as reasons for respect. My family hasn't been able to financially afford a vacation in almost 3 yrs now. Also on that "respect" you think he so rightly deserves, My husband is a war time vet & he has shown NO RESPECT for our VETS in ANYWAY shape or form. Just food for thought.

Hmmm sounds right but can muslims eat fried chicken or even dog..lol

Juelz, your right on this one. I was wondering the same thing.

Thanks, Sydney.

Greg it's obvious he doesn't like President Obama. But other signs he has posted also indicate he has a problem with blacks in general. That's why I think it doesn't make sense for anyone to give him the time of day by calling a news conference. That's the best free publicity that anyone could ever get. For him it's a cheap way to advertise.

During the 2008 election period he put up a sign about the President looking like Curious George. He also put up some type of negative sign about Michael Jackson afer his death.

Kea good luck. Groups have complained in the past, Gerald Rhodes and the NAACP. The City Council people always cite his freedom of speech rights. The bottom line is, this man will continue to do business. Apparently there are people who enjoy what he says because the continue to patrionize his business. So if you ignore him, he might not take the signs down, but he certainly won't get the free publicity that he gets about every six months.

You really need to read up on Supreme Court decisions regarding free speech. You have a constitutional right to offensive speech, but you do not have a constitutional right to not be offended.

I think Norman is dispensing hatred, not dispelling it.

The First Amendment doesn't just protect speech that you like, it protects all speech.

If things were your way, and if people didn't like what you said, they could dub it hate speech and shut you down. Consider that. Nobody's forcing you to drive by his restaurant and read his sign. Tolerance is a two-way street. The only acceptable course of action in dealing with questionable speech and opinions is more speech, not shutting down other people's speech.

"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." I try to avoid putting energy into negative situations; energy just makes those things stronger. Norman and those like him thrive on hate and hostility; don't make them stronger by giving them the attention they seek. Put your energy into positive action: prayer, love, and voter turnout.

Jeremy is correct. Mike Norman passed away in Oct. 2011, just six months after posting the sign with the racial slur about Hispanic people.

Apparently, his legacy lives on.

For the umpteenth time, the first amendment prohibits the abridgment of the freedom of speech. What part of that do you not understand?

Perhaps you might be persuaded by the words of that leftist icon, Noam Chomsky, who stated "If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all."

I actually thought his name was Rhodes not Rose. I've heard it several times and that is what I thought people were saying. That aside, while he may do good things now and then, I often feel he does things for publicity, so be it. But doing this gives the wrong person publicity. Whether the owner is dead or not, he obviously taught his children how to hate as well and they are continuing the tradition. Ignore them.

AMEN!

Yes, Norman passed away in October and his daughters run the bar. That's what the story above states.

Further proof that ignorance is not lost in the womb ^^^^^ My god people its not hatred or stupidity, for that matter it is simply beliefs and morales that were passed on!! Belief that we have a right to feel how ever we want and say what ever needs be said!

Considering the fact that our First Lady is very health conscious. Considering that looking at the first family you don't see them overweight and very involved in exercise and sports, I can't imagine that fried chicken is a regular selection on the menu. Collard greens are a vegetable. The reason the sign is racist is because just like WATERMELON, those two foods are often attributed to be favorites of blacks. Remember that even after 21-year-old Tiger Woods won the Masters, Fuzzy Zoeller got in trouble commenting, "tell him not to serve fried chicken next year." Then shortly afterwards added, or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve."

I will assume it's not a regular on the White House menu, but apparently on that day it was being cooked. It's possible that the family that owns the restaurant read the same thing I did. But the family is racist, but it has usually been against the Hispanics who have opened up small businesses around him. Only since Obama was elected have they been on the other rant. I've lived here all my life and I've driven by that restaurant a lot. If you let a sign at a little restaurant screw up your life, you have a problem. They have been targeted for years now, and they just keep on ticking. Just realize that you are probably better than that and let it go. And unless you get stopped for some reason in front of the sign, I doubt that many kids can read it all as you are driving by, even though kids need to be taught to respect everybody.

May I also point out that the kitchen for the White house is on the basement level, while the dining area and where they have State Dinners is on the first floor. If your friends thought it smelled like fried chicken, I doubt it was because the smell was coming from the kitchen. Come on, I work in a building with a cafeteria. I don't smell the food even on the elevator or in the elevator hall leading into the dining room. I can't imagine that the main area of the WH is going to smell like what's cooking in the kitchen.

Mr./Ms. Vinson, it was not my friends who were in the White House. I just read an article about some people who got to visit the White House and I will assume that if they are taken on a tour (which I believe the artcle stated), they probably would have been taken somewhere near the kitchen, if not the actual kitchen. I wasn't there, I don't know the people, I was just pointing out what I read.

worry about all the meth, herion & pill addiction in your community. illegal Drugs use is a crime too. Meth is not a black problem bro and the radical Islamist are poor people in poor countries most without a airport...don't be scared Mr White, the boggy man ani't real, its a lie to make you buys guns!!

Pat Henry - where is the outrage over the growing militias in this country? Where is the outrage over people shooting up our college campuses? You see, there are a lot of things that people could be outraged about.

You want people to get over a sign, and then commense to tell them how they should think. That's part of the problem.

Jay's post tells me he is a racist.

C Vinson
WTF? Apples and lemonade?

30082, I agree with you that the Hate Speech law is very broad and there should not even BE a law for hate speech. Hate speech is anything someone says to another person or group and they do not like or agree with it, so it is hate speech. Give me a break. If I say I do not like mean people or I think people with tattoos are stupid, then that is called hate speech. I believe I can "Hate" anything or anyone I'd like and my freedom of speech should protect me, not convict me.

There's a middle school principal in Portland Oregon, Verenice Gutierrez, who believes that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are "racist", that they are proof of whiteness and white privilege. She has instituted in-school activities with the support of the school district that bars white students from participating.

I don't see this labeled "hate speech". But then again, it all depends on whose ox is getting gored, doesn't it.

I didn't need to go all the way to Portland, there's plenty around the local area, it's just this one is an outstanding example of the stupidity du jour that has infected the nation. And it's not perceived racism, it's flat out racism when a school official creates an activity that excludes participation based upon race and the fact that it also excludes girls doesn't negate the culpability of the principal. Please do try to keep up.

A lot of what is decried as racism is instead just someone being boorish while real racism goes unnoticed. You do understand the difference between speech and action don't you and why one is permissible, but the other is not.

Gee, sorry Kenneth, I don't know every black person so I don't know how many like collard greens and chicken. I guess my black vegetarian friends would come to mind off hand. Good gravy.

Exactly Kea. The restaurant has a history of comments against people. I'm not in favor of a press conference to give him more attention, but it's interesting that some people think the restaurant owners have a first amendment right to post the message, but somehow the people who don't like it don't have the SAME right to voice their opinion.

Wow, this was powerful, C. Ross.

First, I had forgotten than Bush was depicted as a monkey. You are correct. Second, to label a whole group of people (half the country) as having a mental disorder is just mean. I don't think all Republicans are bad, but then I'm apparently a nicer person than you.

Thank you, Yohan.....

Yes, the sign is racist and No, I won't be eating there.

Hard, most elections are decided by a very small margin, so half and half is a reasonable assumption. I accept most people like they are and I don't call people names or belittle them. We are all created equal and should be treated as such. Kiri is the one who said the sign was racist in the title of this article. I have lived here all my life and have driven by that place countless times. I usually look at the sign, but don't take it seriously because it is one sign. And, Delta, I'm sure they won't miss you at the restaurant.

Oh contraire Pam..they'll miss her MONEY.

And my money. And the monies of all the Thinking Class who refuse to support ignorance, hate and bigotry.

The only mental disorders we have going on here are prejudice & bigotry.
With a heaping helping of Denial on the side.

And once again, we get to see the true colors of our fine Cobb County neighbors.

Pathetic.

Well, we will see on election day. And your comments (as well as the other conservatives) show that there is just as much intolerance and ignorance coming from the conservative side too. It's a two-way street and both parties have enough closed-minded folks to kind of equal it out. But I will say that I would rather be a liberal where I have the right to do what I want (within the law) as opposed to being a conservative where I have to be boring.

Hard,

You Conservatives sure have a problem with math. Yyour own numbers show that Conservatives are the highest percentage. Yet you want to lump moderates and liberals in the same batch just to make a point? Your numbers will probably be lower by the end of November because of flawed ideology like this.

I am not ignorant. And you are the one that is intolerant. But that's okay. You are you and I'm sure that you are probably a nice person.

Wow, you took ONE black actor and decided that he speaks for the entire race? You do realize th at it was once said that if a person had a drop of black blood they were considered black. You also have to recognize that if you saw President Obama walking down the street and didn't know who he was you would consider him black. Halle Berry looks mixed. Moriah Carey looks mixed. President Obama looks black.

Thank God! maybe someone as able to read at Mulligans of what we are posting on the South Cobb Patch. But, I am sure they only made it to first grade and can only look at the pictures.

Get over yourself charlie

One more comment - I was talking to my friend the other day and she and her two granddaughters drove by the restaurant the other day while the words were still on the sign. Her granddaughters are 8 and 10. Since my friend drives kind of slow and there was apparently some traffic in the area, the oldest girl read the sign. She told her grandmother that she really wanted to visit the White House since they served friend chicken. How about we keep the kids innocent. Don't explain that the sign may have been considered racist by some people.

How can anyone read the sign without seeing derogatory connotations? Because we have been programmed by society that fried chicken and collard greens should be associated with blacks, apparently. And nobody said that what you put on your sign has to accomplish something or entertain someone. Look at the Hopco company on Concord Road in Smyrna. They have all kinds of things that people could take offense to. Most of the time they are philosophical things, but sometimes they step over the line a little.

Because we have been programmed to associate fried chicken and collard greens as southern food, and since there are apparently a lot of black people that live in the south, the two are associated because of our President being half black. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes to associate the two and if those of us who have lived here all of our lives have read the signs at that restaurant for years, then, yes, we would assume it was a racist remark. I would also think that if you put that sign in a random place, I'm not too sure how many people would consider it racist. Just associating black people with fried chicken. Not racist, unless you choose to make it so. And if you do, what do you have against chicken?

I am not saying that the sign is not racist. It is because the family has been putting signs like that up forever, but mostly about the Hispanics. Now, on to the odor of the fried chicken and collard greens at the White House. I read a story not too long ago about some people who got to tour the White House and they said that they smelled what smelled like fried chicken when they were close to the kitchen. If you go back, you will see that I posted that earlier. It's hard to go through this many comments, I know, but having to repeat myself will get old. The sign is racist because of the past behavior of the family that owns the restaurant. The sign put in some other places, like a chicken restaurant, may make people think that "I am going to eat some chicken because my beloved President likes it". I hope that you get what I am saying now.

Your in the right direction, but your wording is too polite for what this is. It is not racially insensitive. An example of something "racially insensitive" would be if a person was in a social setting and they made a statement, without any intentional malice, that could be taken as offensive by somebody else in the group, based on their race. It is also not just a "slam about the president," which would seem to infer that it is about his policies as president.

This is out and out racism. This was something that somebody thought about and took the time to post in publish that takes a racial stereotype and directs it at the White House specifically because of the race of the president.

Does the 1st amendment protect their right to post signs like this? Of course. But that doesn't make this sign or any of their other signs or the establishment, as a whole, any less racist. Anybody who supports this business, supports racism. This isn't a business where you may hear the owner tell a racist joke out back by the dumpsters. This is a business that proudly posts its racism out front for all to see and understand that it is run by racists.

Seek hate and you can find (manufacture) it anywhere.

Gargomel
I guess that would have been funny or entertaining if anybody could understand what the heck you were trying to say. Don't you just hate it when you're trying to be flip and just screw it up?

They didn't even spell their own profile name correctly, so what do you expect?

Well "Genghis" I guess you don't keep up on the latest news, in spite of the fact that it's been all over the news that Chik-fil-A has reversed itself. NO ONE has yet said that the sign is illegal. What people have said is that they oppose the message. Some of course also oppose the fact that it's being displayed. It has been made perfectly clear that the place has a 1st Amendment right to display the message. But since we live in America people also have a 1st Amendment right right to express their dissatisfaction. Seems like YOU and many others have a problem with that concept.

You should not assume anything like that. She could be retired or rich or like me, unemployed. And please don't tell me to get a job. Have you seen the news? So, if you have no opinion about the article, just go find one that you have an opinion about and leave your comments about people you don't know quiet.

You can sure tell when a comment hits home. Nothing about my comment. Just a stupid jab. Who is the one with the time on their hands? You obviously have gone through ALL of the comments to determine when I make mine. It's quite sporadic, but I certainly don't have time to look into like you do. But one thing is for sure--I can multi-task and sure as heck don't need a job at Mulligans. You're the one who seems to have too much time on your hands.

Well Steve, I'll give you this; at least you're not afraid to let YOUR bigotry shine like a beacon for all of Cobb County to see.

Have a Blessed Day.

Right on Steve! Great comment. Blacks gotta worry about getting educated,learning to speak English,stop stealing from empolyers (at jobs they only have cause of the color of their skin) as well as being rude loud and obnoxious in public. Every time I hear that damn crap 'music' at a gas station or stop light I wanna puke. All black people do is bring social decorum down to the gutter they came from. Every other race in this country hates blacks cause of the way they act not the color of their skin. What's so racist about chicken anyway? Blacks are the most racist people in the world. Go cry me a river you lazy losers. Maybe Obongo can buy you a new 'sail foam' or car. And no Obongo isn't racist. His brother's name is Abongo and a bongo drum isn't racist so stuff it. Laziest workers I've ever seen. They all move like 3 toed tree sloths and are about as smart. Get lost all of you. Steve run for office brother. You got my vote!

Yep, Steve, any time you try to tell the truth in this country, here comes some brainwashed liberal imbecile to tell you how r-a-c-i-s-t you are.