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.
“We aren’t going to use it anymore because it seems to offend some people. The whole purpose of the stamp is that we can identify who’s been in and who’s been out so that we don’t have to charge people cover two and three times, so we’ll find another stamp to use,” says Adams.
Adams stressed that the stamp was never intended to offend anyone and that “Reggin as Reggie’s” was just a phrase that became popular.
“It never was (intended as a racial slur). It was Reggin as Reggie’s. It’s a phrase that caught on and we never intended it to be a racial slur, we never looked at it twice that way,” Adam explains.
Despite deciding to remove the stamp from Reggie’s weekly rotation, Adams expressed frustration saying, “What kind of society do we live in when we have to watch what we spell forward and backward? It’s ridiculous.”