A Georgia bar owner has sparked outrage by displaying a sign outside his establishment calling Barack Obama a 'ner'.

Patrick Lanzo, of Paulding County, insists that the sign beside the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar is not racist and is simply a political protest over the President's policies.

Yet the owner advertises his drinking hole as a 'Klan Bar' - a clear reference to far-right group the Ku Klux Klan - and has a history of catering to some of the most notorious racist organisations in the U.S.

He added: 'I say just because you're offended by it doesn't mean you don't have the right to say something just the opposite.

'Therefore, they can go out and put their own sign in their own yard and I will not be offended.

It is not the first time he has caused uproar by placing offensive slogans outside his bar.

In 2009, he installed a sign that read, 'Obama's plan for health-care: n** rig it.'

Again, he maintained it was simply a protest against the government's policies on healthcare, rather than racist abuse.

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