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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeet Rick Tyler. He's running for Congress in Tennessee. Rick wants to "Make America White Again."
POLK COUNTY - (WRCB) - A campaign sign in Polk County is stirring up a lot of controversy. The sign, located off Highway 411 near Benton, says "Make America White Again" and was put there by Rick Tyler, an independent candidate in the race for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district seat currently held by Chuck Fleischmann.
Tyler told Channel 3, he has no hatred in his heart for "people of color." He says the sign's message is that America should go back to a "1960s, Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver time when there were no break-ins; no violent crime; no mass immigration."
Several Channel 3 viewers have called or sent messages to our newsroom, saying the signs do not reflect the feelings of the entire county and that they want them down.
Tyler said, "I respect their right to have an opinion. I believe the majority of the people in the county like it."
http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/elections/make-america-white-again-campaign-sign-causing-controversy-in-polk-co/252587052
RoadRunner
(4,495 posts)Trump found his running mate.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)monmouth4
(9,726 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)The billboard is bad enough but him explaining it brought it to a whole other level of WTF for me.
ribrepin
(1,729 posts)All he needs is the sheets.
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)over... and I think that's just because Bradley annexed part of Polk. Lots of backwoods, deep in the forest folks there, still living in the family homes from the 1800's, with no electricity, indoor plumbing, etc...
Peace,
Ghost
redStateBlueHeart
(265 posts)guntotin librul
(8 posts)make America RED again!!!
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