Louisiana Bar Stamps REGGIN on Black College Student's Hand...Translated Backwards is N****r...

[KamaAina]

http://thegedsection.therealdlhughley.com/blogs/louisiana-bar-stamps-n-gger-on-black-college-student-s-hand

A bar in Louisiana uses a hand stamp at the door that reads "Reggin" which is also "nigger" spelled backwards. Taylor Ward, a freshman at LSU, got Twitter fired up when she tweeted this picture from Reggie's Bar in Baton Rouge:...

“After I noticed that the stamp spelled n****r backwards, I immediately showed my friends,” Taylor Ward told Clutch Magazine. “We decided to bring it to the manager’s attention. However, all he had to say was, ‘It’s a stamp,’ so we left.”

So, was she singled out because she's black? Taylor says, hell yeah! But the manager claims "Reggin" is slang for going to Reggie's and that everyone gets the stamp.

But folks aren't buying his explanation, especially after seeing this pic of a Confederate flag hanging in the corner of the bar.

[LiberalArkie]

1. Damn

[a kennedy]

2. This is just disgusting.....

[etherealtruth]

3. WTF?

[sakabatou]

4. My sentiments exactly.

[yuiyoshida]

5. Disgusting...

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. omg

[Spazito]

7. Geez, they couldn't be more blatant with their racism, imo

[Nye Bevan]

18. Wouldn't spelling the word out forwards, and stamping it only on black people,

be "more blatant"?

[Spazito]

22. No n/t

[Reter]

35. Of course

This is more subtle. They can technically say Reggin isn't a racist word.

[TipTok]

43. I have confirmation of their bias...

They serve 'ginger' ale in this terrible establishment...

If you mix those letters up as well you get the same 'obvious' slur.

It's on the stamps! It's on the drinks! Might as well just scream it from the rooftops!

[Spazito]

47. Yeah, the confederate flag in their establishment is merely benignly decorative...

I'm sure.

[ShrimpPoboy]

8. Been there more than a few times in college

It's 18-23 year olds and all LSU students. Very high volume on weekends, probably 90% white. They didn't have the stamp in my day but the Confederate flag may have been there. More likely new since the recent uproar.

The stamp seems outrageously bold to be racially motivated though. The manager said it was "slang", turning the bar name Reggies into a verb. That's actually not hard to believe as a marketing attempt. Were they giving it to everyone as claimed? Seems like an easy thing to prove one way orthe other.

[KamaAina]

9. If it were a verb, it'd be Reggin' with an apostrophe.

18-23-year-olds? I thought La. had raised its drinking age to 21, although, as you can well imagine (yes, I lived in NOLA for a time ) it was one of the last holdouts.

[Chan790]

11. We're talking about college-bar management here.

I wouldn't expect proper use of grammar or punctuation. I'd guess the dumb fuckstick doesn't know how to use an apostrophe.

The sorta doods that run college-town just-off-campus bars are guys that never really matured past freshman year and either barely finished or didn't finish college. It's a Peter Pan job...as long as you act like a "bro" and never stop taking sexual-advantage of inebriated underaged girls, you never have to grow up.

That's not all such bar managers...but it's more of them than not.

[ShrimpPoboy]

28. It changed to 21 about 20 years ago

but many bars, including this one, continued to allow underage patrons. They just got an X stamp, indicating underage. If I remember right, Reggies had a policy for a while that guys had to be 21 but girls could be 19. No idea what it is now or if it's the same owners.

[BayouBengal07]

30. This is why I was always more of a Fred's guy.

[ShrimpPoboy]

39. Geaux Tigers!

(Our current problems notwithstanding)

[brush]

32. Ahhh . . . why not just use the club's name, Reggie, for the stamp. Something smells about that.

But I withhold judgment until I see whether the same stamp is put on the white patrons.

[Nye Bevan]

33. It was.

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/11/254374/

[brush]

34. There's no photo in that link that shows it on a white patron's hand

[Nye Bevan]

36. .

While it doesn’t appear Ward was singled out for the stamp because she’s Black–she said others in the mixed crowed were also marked with the slur–she is frustrated by the entire experience.

Ward acknowledges it herself.

[MADem]

10. Need to send some white people in there and see what happens.

Of course, now they may be alerted to the brouhaha....

[oberliner]

13. White people got the same stamp

Everyone did.

[MADem]

15. Surely they understand the optics? Maybe, given the decor, they

just don't care...? Or they think it's funny?

Is there a link that bears that out?

[oberliner]

17. It's a college bar

I don't think they really care or think about optics.

Here's an article on the subject from the LSU student paper:

http://www.lsureveille.com/tigertv/reggie-s-bar-manager-the-stamp-won-t-change/article_ed91fd3a-8fbd-11e5-a4ae-e31cea5eca7f.html

The "update" in the article includes a statement from the manager.

[MADem]

20. But they do--the stamp is in the garbage!

http://www.lsureveille.com/tigertv/reggie-s-to-stop-using-controversial-stamp/article_8609c4c4-9240-11e5-a22e-336a0ebe3852.html

Darren Adams, owner of the Tigerland bar Reggie’s, will no longer use the “Reggin’” stamp that created controversy when Taylor Ward, LSU student, posted on her Twitter than it was a racial slur spelled backwards.

Only took them fifteen years...but good for Taylor Ward!

Next item, that nasty terrorist rag hanging over the bar!

[oberliner]

21. The power of twitter

It's amazing sometimes to see it in action.

[oberliner]

12. “Reggin” is slang for partying at Reggie’s bar

According to students there and the bar management.

[Nye Bevan]

14. Others in the mixed race crowd were stamped with the same thing.

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/11/254374/

This is not the first time someone spotted that something was a slur when read backwards:

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Port Authority is looking into bus slogans that some are calling offensive.

Officials say they’ve recently received complaints that one of its slogans, “Ziggin Zaggin,” is offensive when read backwards, seeming to spell out a racial slur.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/06/04/bus-messages-called-offensive-when-read-backwards/

Everyone needs to remember that it's not enough simply not to be racist. It is also unacceptable to be racist when your words are read backwards.

[Reter]

37. Don't forget mixed up words spelling out something racist

Or even rhyming with a racist word.

[Nye Bevan]

38. Yep, those folks saying "trigger warning" think they're being so clever.

But they don't fool me. We all know what "trigger" rhymes with.

[hughee99]

41. Mixed up words? I wonder if any redheads should be offended by this same stamp. n/t

[ecstatic]

19. Why are there always people ready and willing to give cover for racist

Bullshit? Look at that stamp again, if you must! Stop the nonsense! If it walks like a duck...etc. It's a slur, point blank period.

[Nye Bevan]

26. A "slur"? Surely, if anything, it's a "ruls" (nt)

[TipTok]

45. Ba dum tish...

[dembotoz]

23. my name here spelled backwards is zotobmed i do hope i have not offended anyone

it IS possible the bar is not guilty on this.

harry caray the legendary cubs broadcaster used to pronounce names backward as part of his stick maybe he would have caught it.

lets see if they get a new stamp

[ProfessorGAC]

24. The "Hanging At Reggie's" Explanation Sounds Rehearsed

As in, "we'll do this, but if someone notices, we say this thing about hanging out here"

[edhopper]

25. Racists

find it hilarious when they can slip in the N word.

[LiberalArkie]

29. That is indeed the game. The game happens here by knowingly replying to a post

in such a way as to start an argument leading to a hide and saying "they just took what I said wrong and blew up" all the while smiling. It seems to be getting very popular to try to sneak things under the radar to cause trouble.

Just like the "white supremacists" trying to start "black riots". After Ferguson, people got very smart and are not letting the fools provoke them into a fight. And BLM and the rest are now winning.

The owners at the bar were probably waiting for someone to get a little drunk and notice the stamp and start something.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. Even if it were inadvertent, mgt should have been HORRIFIED and changed it when it was pointed out

[loyalsister]

40. It have taken no work to figure it out

It would have been obvious because the reverse image of a hand stamp is naturally visible.

There is no way they didn't notice and not correcting it is no different from doing it intentionally.

[Paladin]

31. Those of you spreading that bullshit explantion of "Reggin" ought to be ashamed of yourselves. (nt)

[daredtowork]

42. This is why humanities education needs to make a comeback

People succumb to knee-jerk racism without engaging in the critical thinking to consider what that means in the context of our civilization. We've brought up the whole next generation that way - and now we're getting the blowback of students who are either totally disengaged from the workings of government or who are easily recruited as purveyors of this and that ideology.

Studies have shown reading novels stimulates empathy.

Philosophy acculturates the thinking mind.

History enables us to compare our present condition to the arrangements and events of the past.

The arts train the mind to various structures, patterns, and approaches to creativity.

Anthropology and various demographic "studies" courses allow students to take on the particular perspectives of a variety of societies and groups within those societies.

Training students in mere skills without offering them the chance to engage with the terms of the society and civilization around them is to manufacture mere automatons.

[riderinthestorm]

46. +1 . Agreed. The obvious problem with the stamp is well, obvious

with any critical thinking skills.

Good post!

[Orrex]

44. I hear that the bar is niggardly with its Happy Hour specials, too.

[KamaAina]

48. You laugh and you scoff, but a DC pol was actually jacked up for saying that

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002428367#post7

[hifiguy]

49. Jumping Jebus.

How effing stupid can people be?

On second thought, forget it; I think I know.

[Orrex]

50. That's exactly the case to which I was alluding, though there are others, sadly. (nt)

[romanic]

51. It is "WTF" territory.

If someone stamped that shit on my hand, I don't give a damn if everyone from the whites to the Latinos had it on too, someone would be picking their teeth up from the floor.