Herb's No Racist. He's Just Not Bright. Nuance, People. Nuance.

A 'whites only' sign at a barber shop on Moss Street in Lafayette might grab your attention and take you back to the Civil Rights era.

This afternoon, a viewer called our newsroom appalled. We checked it out and found that barber Herbert Leger put the sign up Saturday morning after having to over and over again turn down customers he says he's not qualified to help.

Herbert Leger: The difference is the technique that you use and they have special technique for cutting black people's hair. Just like there's a special technique for cutting white people's hair. I don't have the training, I don't have the experience, I don't have the knowledge and the technique used in cutting black people's hair.

Leger says he did not intend for the sign to offend anyone. He also says when a customer walks in he can't help, he sends him to his barber friend across the street.

Yes, he sends them across the street, to his friend's place, in Colored Town.

The hat and the backward "S" in the Whites Only sign are the tip offs that this guy's no racist. While racists from time to time do don silly hats, they stop using the backward "S" when they outgrow their lemonade stands. (Coloreds served round back.)