Tennessee Congressional Candidate Posts “Make America White Again” Campaign Sign
This is what Donald Trump has set loose in the right wing; after decades of (barely) keeping the racism under wraps, it’s now all out in your face again.
Tennessee white supremacist candidate Rick Tyler wants America to be like a 1960s TV show. It’s not clear what he thinks ought to be done with all the non-white people who are American citizens now, but this fantasy nationalist rhetoric is how so many of history’s horrific events started.
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.”
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Tyler posted a second sign on Highway 64 with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” quote written over a White House surrounded by Confederate Flags.