Texas Restaurant Slammed for 'Coon Chicken' Sambo On Its Wall...Swears It's NOT Racist!

The lengths folks will go to avoid admitting that they are racist or have done something racist. 

Case in point: One Texas restaurant--IN 2017-- is really trying to defend their right to post a neon Sambo sign on their wall. Oh...and did we mention that the words "coon chicken" are in its mouth? Yeah, they tried it. 

According to the owners, who clearly have never read a real history book, they swear that this degrading and racially insensitive symbol of Black people is NOT RACIST!!!

See, it all started when Jessica Rios was attending a work holiday party at the Lubbock, Texas, spot when she noticed the revolting Sambo on the wall. 

Disgusted by it, she took a picture with her phone and posted it on Facebook so people could see the kind of backwards world we are still living in. 

"I am steaming mad right now... I’m sitting at my office Christmas party at cooks garage in Lubbock Texas and I look up to see this picture. (It says “coon chicken inn” in the mouth...)

Cook's Garage, which opened in April, quickly got dragged online after Rios posted the pic. Instead of googling how problematic Sambo is, they tried to defend the indefensible in a now-deleted Facebook post. In it, they claim that Sambo is part of our history. 

"Aunt Jemima, mammies, and lots of other black collectibles are highly sought after, as is Americana collectibles with white characters," said the message, according to the website The Root. "

(WHAT WHITE CHARACTERS ARE EQUALLY AS OFFENSIVE AS SAMBO? We'll wait.)

They added: "The Coon Chicken Inn was an actual restaurant started in the 20's. Again, we want to stress we do not intend to offend anyone, and are only preserving a part of history that should remind us all of the senselessness of racial prejudice."

We DO NOT give two damns if this was named after an ACTUAL restaurant! This restaurant was named this name to to demean Black folks? WHY IS THAT HISTORY?

WE ALL KNOW WHAT COONS MEAN! WE ALL KNOW THE STEREOTYPES OF BLACK PEOPLE AND FRIED CHICKEN! WHY IS THIS THE HISTORY YOU WANT TO PRESERVE? 

One local resident Jasmine Abdullah told KLBK News that she saw the post on a friend of a friend's page, and has reached out to Cook's Garage to take it down. She said she hasn't gotten a response. 

"I was reading the comments, I saw the sign, and I immediately got infuriated," Abdullah said.

 "Because I was thinking 'In this day and age, we are still having to deal with things like this? ... If we want to be remembered as a group of people, that is not how we want to be remembered. If you want to put a piece of American history or African-American history up, there are tons of people you can have hanging up in your restaurant. Not something derogatory." 

Clearly, they don't care about real history, just some Confederate slave fantasy. What's next? The n-word isn't racist? We can't. 

FAM: What would you do if you saw this Sambo on the wall? Weigh in...