1 white kid with a single BlackLivesMatter sign stands on the street in Harrison, Arkansas.

[Nevilledog]

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This is what happens when one white kid with a single #BlackLivesMatter sign stands on the street in Harrison, Arkansas.

@kanyewest this is who you placate for and want acceptance from.


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2:53 PM · Oct 7, 2022

[c-rational]

1. Wow, what an ugly spot in America.

[gratuitous]

2. I'm confident the same reaction would happen in a LOT of places in the country

But yeah, this was pretty disgusting.

[MyMission]

70. It's kkk headquarters town, so even more vitriol

I think many towns, especially here in the south, would have similar reactions, but the number of comments and threats seems excessive. Again, kkk headquarters town so even worse.
I agree, it was pretty disgusting and very disturbing.

I'm surprised the police didn't make an appearance to harass him.

[live love laugh]

67. Lots of those spots all across Amerikkka.

[ARPad95]

3. Very thin skinned white people down there in Harrison, AR if one of their kind holding a sign with

*words* is so triggering. Hateful, racist a-holes!

[Nevilledog]

5. Does this seem accurate to you?

[ARPad95]

8. What do you mean?

[Nevilledog]

10. I took the AR in your name as meaning Arkansas.

So, I was asking if this video depicted the area correctly.

If that's not what the AR stands for, I withdraw the question.

[ARPad95]

12. AR are my initials. ;)

[Nevilledog]

13. Then it was just a coincidence.

[SouthernDem4ever]

71. The trigger is always pulled in Harrison

one of the most racist towns in America

[Brainfodder]

4. Should place the sign all over that town and record hidden video with audio.

Also, show the positive footage too, if there was any please!



That was mighty sad.

Per wiki quickie 88% white.

Had no plans to ever visit.

[Beachnutt]

24. Place it on private property and set up a trail camera

to record who vandalizes it and their vehicle license plate and file charges and sue each one that traspasses and vandalizes the sign.
Donate the proceeds to Democratic party candidates.

[Brainfodder]

25. More devious, I like it!

[Duppers]

38. Great idea...

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Unless the lawsuit was heard by a mostly white jury.

ALL of Arkansas is awful. (My hubs' racist g-parents lived there.)
However, there seems to be some hope for a fraction of younger white ppl.

Edited to add:
However, they did elect BILL CLINTON.

[electric_blue68]

6. Not unexpected (unfortunately), but wow. Pretty brave dude...

White racists almost hate white "traitors" as much as (a bit more possibly) than Black people.

Ugly all around, except for this sigh holder. 👍

[Hieronymus Phact]

18. No one is hated more

Than an Apostate.

[electric_blue68]

55. You know I've never used that word, reading it on occasion...

(I had to double check the meaning but I guessed right) but yeah. 👍

Even if the man w sign was brought up anti racist he'd probably be seen that way just for having those views.

[Sky Jewels]

7. Vile, vile people.

This is terrifying and depressing.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

9. Many have not acted like it.

I have heard stories of black lives not being respected, not mattering.
The stories are from about 1940 or so.

Those stories help me understand why it needs to be said, "black lives matter".

People that say, "all lives matter" need to connect with this deeper meaning.

[ARPad95]

14. They are incapable of seeing a world outside of their own existence. They're sadly (for the rest of

us) stunted in their emotional and mental development.

[Ligyron]

27. Hell, the "all lives matter" are the nicer ones.

Maybe they're just selfish, like ..."Me too! me,me,me... I want a sign!"

Then again, they could be like, the old time Jebus freaks, all peace and love, ya know like..."we all matter, peace and brotherhood!"

Then again, maybe not...they could just be parroting FOX hosts.

[Scrivener7]

31. No. That's not "peace and brotherhood" people.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

45. You are right.

When I first heard it, and spoke with a republican, I said "hmmm that is strange, all lives matter".
And I was thinking that maybe it should be, "black lives matter too".

But then, with a little reflection, I was able to understand the deeper meaning.
Unfortunately, even though it should be obvious, it needs to be said that black lives matter.

[Ray Bruns]

11. Did anyone expect anything less?

[Celerity]

35. nope, not at all, shitholes gonna shithole

[Duppers]

39. Exactly.

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It's fuckin Arkansas.

It's a wonder BILL CLINTON ever was elected there...but proof a good politician can work wonders, even in a racist state.

[erronis]

15. I'll have to hope that there were some supporting statements - perhaps not included

My hope may be misplaced, however.

While this is in the south, I'm sure there are some decent and reasonable people around. They might not want to stand out in that environment.

[karin_sj]

16. Wow

Just extremely sad and disturbing to see so many racist, hateful people.

[dembotoz]

17. hear that up north too.

bigots are out from under the rocks.
like the kkk don't need hoods anymore

[Lonestarblue]

19. Even though Inlive in a red state, I live in a Democratic city, which does make a difference.

Even then, I’m seeing Republican talking points from Austin suburbia on crime and defunding the police and excessive growth being blamed on Democrats now. I’ll stay long enough to vote this November, and then I’ll most likely start looking dor a saner state to live it. Sane would not describe any red state.

[panader0]

20. Pretty brave guy. I'll bet he lives out of town.

[Beachnutt]

21. You would get the same reaction if you held a Biden sign

or a trump for prison sign, those people are haters and have no respect or decency for anyone.
Basically they are trash and the older ones probably go to a baptist church and claim their love of everyone.
I have family just like those folks here in east Texas.
I am ashamed of them all.

[PatSeg]

26. And you know everyone has an opinion,

but it takes a certain kind of person to yell it out a car window at someone they don't even know. These idiots go around thinking out loud all the time. Unfortunately there's not much in their heads to begin with.

I lived for awhile in east Texas many years ago for a short time. I know just the people you are talking about. When I left, I swore I'd never set foot in the state again. I'd hoped a lot of the south had improved, but I'm having some serious doubts.

[Abolishinist]

36. "These idiots go around thinking out loud all the time.

Unfortunately, there's not much in their heads to begin with." A great visual!

[PatSeg]

46. And we've all known them!

[calimary]

77. Hah! We had one of those at our most recent sign-holding demonstration.

Every Friday at 5, a scrappy little group of un Indivisibles get together at a busy local corner and hold up signs. Right now, it’s all campaign signs for our candidates.

Lots of traffic, and many drivers honk approval and/or wave to us as they go by. But last Friday, some passenger in a big rig hollered a big loud growls “FUCK YOU!” at us as the truck rolled by. That was a first.

For some reason, they do like to show off how rude and blinder’d they are.

[SouthernDem4ever]

72. very true, it's why they all love trump

he thinks they are good people. LOL

[LudwigPastorius]

22. "Fuck black lives....and I have black friends"

I bet she wouldn't say that to her "friends" faces.

[peppertree]

28. He really brought out the intellects of today's GOP, didn't he

But seriously, that was brave. I hope he doesn't actually live there.

[PatSeg]

23. Oh my god, that is horrifying

It is like 1950 in Harrison, Arkansas, not 2022.

[SunSeeker]

34. Play this video to SCOTUS when they say the Civil Rights Act is no longer needed.

[PatSeg]

37. Seriously, that was so disturbing on so many levels

[Hestia]

43. Even though Harrison tries to get people to forget - it is still a Sundown Town

and there is a huge Bund type of operation up there that holds Nazi Youth type of Summer Camps for kids.

Horrible area, that unfortunately you have to drive through to get anywhere approximating "good." Major highway crossroads run through there. When we have to drive through, we make sure we get fuel and drinks, etc., in the counties next to Harrison and refuse to spend a dime *in* Harrison.

[PatSeg]

48. Sounds like a nightmare, a real throw-back town

I was curious so I Googled Harrison, Arkansas:

What is it like to live in Harrison Arkansas?

Recognized as one of the most unique small communities in the country, Harrison, Arkansas is an ideal place to start a business or enjoy retirement. A healthy economy and moderate cost of living mean that those looking for a place to "Have It All" need to look no further than Harrison.

And this:

Is Harrison Arkansas a good place to live?

Harrison Reviews:

Lots of great people here. The public schools are very good, especially for being a "small town in Arkansas." Harrison is generally pretty safe. There is good healthcare with the hospital.

I guess they inadvertently omitted "If you're white"!


Oh wait, if you go further, there is this question and answer:

What is the racial makeup of Harrison Arkansas?
White: 94.13% Two or more races: 3.99% Asian: 1.10% Native American: 0.69%


That is out of a population of a little over 13,000

[sinkingfeeling]

59. Harrison is the proud home of the Knights of the KKK.

It is 96% white.

[PatSeg]

61. Yes, I Googled Harrison and got this

What is the racial makeup of Harrison Arkansas?

White: 94.13% Two or more races: 3.99% Asian: 1.10% Native American: 0.69%

Sounds like a wonderful town.

[Scrivener7]

29. I wouldn't go near a red state with a ten foot pole. I know there are many lovely DUers

who live in them. I take my hat off to them. Those places terrify me.

And I worked in the South Bronx for 20 years and loved it.

[PatSeg]

51. I get uncomfortable just watching movies

about southern style racism. The mindless hate terrifies me.

I lived a short while in the south years ago and the bigotry and narrow-minded attitudes was unnerving. I was very young, so it was quite a culture shock for me - Confederate flags, "The South will rise again", "Whites only", and portraits of Jefferson Davis in the schools. I came from the Land of Lincoln, so it was unsettling to hear that Lincoln was consider a tyrant and a traitor.

[Warpy]

30. Yeah, there's a reason I don't live there

or in any other slave state. No thanks.

[Scrivener7]

33. Most of the states were slave states at some point. Certainly blue, blue New England and

my own New York were.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

47. illustration of slave states and free states ...

[Scrivener7]

62. New York State emancipated its slaves in 1827. Massachusetts had slaves till the late 1780s.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

65. States with total abortion ban: 14; Slave states in 1861: 15

The theocrats want, at least, partially enslavement of somebody. This time it's women and girls.

[Scrivener7]

66. I see the correlation you are making, and it is a true observation about the values of

the majority in southern states.

And I am a woman, a single issue voter, and that issue is abortion.

But I do have to point out that equating slavery and lack of access to abortion is not a good thing to do.

There's no such thing as partial enslavement.

[Warpy]

50. Slavery really didn't catch on well there

although they used indentured servants who took seven years to work off the price of their passage and if they survived it, were free.

Even that fell out of favor when ships got larger and transport was more economical, waves of immigrants coming in who required no up front cash outlay and could be paid below subsistence with impunity. A lot of great fortunes were made on the backs of underpaid immigrant labor in the northeast. I'm not letting them off the hook for the past.

These days, things are different, and it's only women who are being enslaved, often by the states that clung to the horrific institution of buying and selling other human beings. I'm referring to the states with antiwoman "trigger laws" that went into effect when the USSC made its worst ruling since Dred Scott. Arkansas is one of those states. Sorry, won't live there, even though at my age I am extremely unlikely to need abortion services. It's the overall attitude toward women as the natural slaves of men I can't abide.

You want to live there, be my guest.

[Scrivener7]

57. Depends on what you mean by "catch on." There were African slaves in New York -

and lots of them - for 200 years. When Africans were emancipated in NY in 1827, about 5000 were freed, and by then the numbers were smaller than they had been previously.

Large numbers of Native Americans were enslaved in New England starting with the Pequot War in 1637 (where basically all Pequot who survived the war were enslaved), continuing with Metacom's War in 1675 and going through till about 1700. This enslavement of New England Natives is a really forgotten part of our history, and it should not be forgotten.

In 1700, the cost of African slaves was coming down and there were more of them because they were being imported at a furious pace and were reproducing once they got here. At that point, Africans became more attractive than Native Americans as slaves because there was always a danger that a Native American would run away to relatives. Most male Native American slaves taken during that period from 1637 to 1700 were sold south to the sugar plantations, a thousand miles from their homes.

Slavery wasn't abolished in Massachusetts till the late 1780s. So that was a good hundred and fifty years from the first appearance of African slaves in New England. And the fact was that there was almost no industry that the New England merchants engaged in that wasn't heavily dependent on slavery in one way or another right up till the Civil War.

In Maine, there was a group of 100 Scottish slaves, of all things, who were captured in the 1650s in the English Civil War and shipped to Maine to work in timber plantations. They were not indentures, they were sold as actual slaves. But because they were white, they married white women and their children were born free. Most were able to buy their freedom within a space of about 20 years because their owners did not own the fruits of the labors of their wives and children, so they were able to get the money to do so. The plantations were the Maxwell and Andrus plantations around York, I think, and there is still a town there called, "Scotland."

[SunSeeker]

32. K & R & Retweeted!

[Beachnutt]

40. MAHA

Make
America
Hate
Again

[frogmarch]

41. I fucking hate those

fucking racist fuckers!

[jmowreader]

42. I only got about halfway through this before I had to turn it off

Places like this confirm in my mind that there's no God. If there was one, He wouldn't put up with this shit.

However, all these people who insulted and threatened physical violence to the guy holding the sign probably attend church every Sunday and are positive they're going to Heaven, regardless of how rotten they are.

[PurgedVoter]

44. Filter it down, these folk have grown up knowing that no lives matter.

They support bullies because they are scared not to. They will become the next to be bullied if they don't. They constantly live in the worst bullied classroom you ever had in school.

When you say "Black live Matter," since they have taken to heart that no lives really matter, they hear that "Black live matter more than their lives." Sad but these racists live in constant fear of their white brethren. They know that if they show compassion it will be called weakness and they will lose their family, friends and community. Their church will reject them. Out of fear, the ones that don't want to hurt them will avoid them.

They know that they will lose everything if they show an ounce of compassion. They are bullied, and live in a network of bullies.

Of course they hate the white that shows courage. That man is dangerous. There are consequences if they smile at him. In their confused mindset, they wish they could be him, hate him, want him to just go away. He upsets the apple cart.

Since these areas are predominately managed by people who show that they are bullies, you can be certain that justice for anyone who isn't pale, does not measure up in these areas.

They are sad pitiful beings. Brainwashed by mechanisms that have haunted man since the dawn of time.

[progressoid]

49. This is from a couple years ago but I doubt anything has changed.

[JoeOtterbein]

52. K n R ! Thanks for posting!

Brave young people give me hope.

[OMGWTF]

53. I hate it here.

[aggiesal]

54. I blame Pendejo45 for this ...

Being a racist himself, he has allowed all other racists to come out from under their hood.

[Lucky Luciano]

56. This guy checked out Harrison and found some decent people...and the worst as well...

[mountain grammy]

58. This is awful and depressing

someone please shove this video down John Roberts' throat.

[yardwork]

60. "Find Jesus!"

No words.

[William769]

63. always sad to see a video of bottom feeders.

[AntivaxHunters]

64. I wonder what the police department there is like?

Yikes!

[raccoon]

68. OMFG is this reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

When people say “White lives matter” what they really mean is

“We’re losing our White Privilege. “

[Rebl2]

74. Exactly

[uponit7771]

69. I wonder what reaction a "God Loves Black Lives Mattering" sign would bring

[David__77]

75. That is actually a good slogan.

Or even “God loves Black babies.”

I say that because there are different ways to achieve a purpose.

[Joinfortmill]

73. Lot's of racism out there.

[Rebl2]

76. Amazing to

me they ever elected Bill Clinton as governor and president since he was a democrat.

[Botany]

78. Those responses are very typical of much of Arkansas and much of America too.

The Buffalo River in Arkansas is as a wonderful of a float/canoe trip as you can find but the people around the
river still think the wrong side won the civil war and the hate and stupidity is so ingrained in their souls
that for some only death alone will cause it to be stilled. I remember in more then one place being asked
if I was a Yankee and did I love n*****s?

BTW almost all of them are SEC or NFL fans too.

BTW part 2 these are Trump's base who watch Fox News and listen to hate talk radio 24/7.

BTW part 3 much of rural PA, W.V., OH, and KY have people who are just like those in Arkansas.

[twodogsbarking]

79. If you don't vote you may end up with them running the show.