What does that even mean?
Do you deport anyone to some other country if they are not white? What about non-white people who have been here before the white people came? What about black people who came over here on slave ships and all but the very strongest died? What about all the legal immigrants since 1620 of any and every race who were free men and women? This is crazy sort of like even extreme for the KKK or something.
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Tennessee man running for Congress who erected a Trump-inspired
campaign billboard reading “Make America White Again,” now says his
right to freedom of speech was “nailed to the cross” when he was forced
to take the …
Tennessee Congressional candidate says free speech was ‘nailed to the cross’ when forced to take down 'Make America White Again' billboard
Rick Tyler. Tennesse congressional candidate.
The Tennessee man running for Congress who erected a Trump-inspired campaign billboard reading “Make America White Again,” now says his right to freedom of speech was “nailed to the cross” when he was forced to take the sickening sign down.
U.S. House candidate Rick Tyler was forced by the billboard companies to take two of his campaign ads down a day after they went up after his Polk County community became outraged over their racially charged messages.
A second campaign billboard quoted Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” above a photo of the White House adorned with Confederate Flags
Local backlash over the stupefying signs included a counter-billboard campaign, launched by a Drive Out Hate advocacy group who raised money to put up their own signs promoting tolerance.
Rick Tyler Tennesse - Polk County congress seeker's billboard. Credit: Amy Hines Woody via facebook
(Amy Hines Woody via facebook)"I really wanted to avoid the perception that residents in this region feel that way or treat one another that way," Josiah Vacheresse, the executive director for Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children and the organizer of the billboard campaign, told the Times Free Press.
"That's not what we're about. That's not what we're for,” he said. “It’s not an attack on any one person. We just want to show that we’re a people of love,” Vacheresse added, in reference to Tyler.
Tennessee - Drive Out Hate billboards push message of love in Bradley, Polk counties. Facebook pic
Tyler responded to the new billboards by saying he thinks “it’s great what they’re doing,” because “they’re stoking the fire of the story," he told the Times Free Press.
“I’m all about freedom. It’s great that they are able to say what they want to say. What’s tragic is that I’m not able to. I’m not allowed to. My First Amendment right is being nailed to the cross,” he said.
Tyler is running as an independent candidate for Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District, a seat currently held by Republican Chuck Fleischmann. He lost in a 2014 U.S. Senate race, only getting 0.4% of the vote, according to Ballotpedia.
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