While the “Make America White Again” billboard was removed Tuesday, Tyler is asking for donations to fund his other billboard ideas, including ones that read “Stop the Muslim invasion” and “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be miscegenators”.
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The sign, which appeared over Highway 411 near Benton, Tenn., was placed there by independent candidate, Rick Tyler, who is now running for Tennessee’s 3rd congressional district seat, WRCB-TV reported. Or, more likely, he understands it perfectly well but has calculated that a majority of voters will appreciate that message in the same way some appreciate Trump’s subliminal one.
A campaign billboard in Polk County, Tennessee, is causing a political storm and gaining national attention. “Please, if you are the decent and loving people I know you to be, boycott this business”, Amy Hines Woody, a Delano, Tennessee resident wrote on Facebook.
“I respect their right to have an opinion”, Tyler said.
Channel 3 asked Tyler if he feared for his safety or backlash from the campaign sign.
While the sign may seem racist, Tyler told the news station it wasn’t meant to be.
He then made matters worse by erecting another one, this time with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I Have A Dream” written over a white house surrounded by Confederate Flags. “Of great significance, as well, is the reality of the Trump phenomenon and the manner in which he has loosened up the overall spectrum of political discourse”.
Tyler is one of three independent candidates running for the seat now held by Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican, who faces both Republican and Democratic contenders.
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