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Warning: This story, if you have at least two brain cells to rub together, will infuriate you. Also, the video contains graphic hate speech.

A dive bar/restaurant in Enid, Oklahoma is receiving national attention after one of its patrons posted a strong message on social media about discrimination. Matt Gard, former long-time customer of Gary’s Chicaros (translation: to booze it up), has been banned from the restaurant because of his wheelchair. Owner Gary James, however, says otherwise: “He created an issue. You only have one time here. You create an issue, you’re out forever.”

It should also be noted that James is on the ballot as a candidate for the Enid City Council.

Gard claims that’s just “a weak excuse,” and that James’s real problem with him is that he’s on disability. “Now, he tried to find a weak excuse not to let me in with my wheelchair or the weak excuse of having loud people with me. He doesn’t like certain people of race, color, ethnicity and has turned them away for decades.” Gard was a regular at Gary’s Chicaros restaurant for years. He told reporters that he turned a blind eye to the owner’s choice of customers, until recently.

“If I discriminate, it’s against the people I dislike,” Gary James said in response. James he doesn’t deny the discrimination. “If you come in here with all the in your face and a limp wrist, no I don’t really want you in here and my customers damn sure don’t want you in here,” James said. “I’ve been in business 44 years, I think I can spot a freak or a f*ggot. If you’re on welfare, stay at home and spend my money there. I don’t deal with these people walking down the street with no jobs on welfare.”

James say he is keeping out what he calls “trash” and “people on welfare.” Earlier this week, he told a local paper anyone who wears a hat inside a building is gay, and will be asked to leave. James said he isn’t homophobic or racist. He just refuses to allow anyone who makes him or his customers uneasy inside his business.

James said during an interview with Ashley Kringen, a KFOR reporter, “If I reached over there and slapped the shit out of you, you should be offended. But to call someone a chink or someone call me a bigot, that doesn’t bother me.”

The restaurant’s official t-shirt makes it clear that a “f*ggot” isn’t welcome in James’s establishment. It features that word, derogatory comments against women, the N-word, and threatens violence against Muslims, Democrats, and members of many minority groups.

James says he is “proud” to wear the shirt: “I really don’t want gays around. Any man that would compromise his own body would compromise anything.”

A wave of comments on Facebook claim James refuses to serve African-Americans, Hispanics (funny, since the name of his business is Spanish) and people with disabilities, like Matt Gard.

Gard said, “The people who still go back and patronize his business are condoning his behavior in how he treats others.”

James said, “Well if you work, you own a business, pay your taxes, you’re more than welcome here.” Strong words in a small town where no one has challenged his business practices.

James said he’s also obeying the law; it’s just his opinions that others don’t like. “If they don’t like my actions or my words they don’t have to vote for me as far as that election goes,” James said. Despite his colorful comments, James said he still has a good chance of being elected. The election will be held Tuesday, February 10. Video at http://kfor.com/2014/02/06/graphic-language-enid-restaurant-owner-gets
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James' comments have sparked fury in the town, with a flurry of angry comments being left on the restaurant's Facebook page.

But some internet users have gotten creative in their protests.

The restaurant's page on review website Yelp now features posts describing it as 'the best gay bar in Enid' and saying Gary will be hosting a live viewing of 'RuPaul's Drag Race Season.'

One review said: "Gary's is one of the best bars around. Gary himself sports assless chaps, a choker chain and some pink nipple tassels daily." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/gary-james-chicaros-restaurant
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