Outrage as Trump Inspired Candidate Wants to 'Make America White Again'

[Garion_55]

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com

A Donald Trump-inspired congressional candidate has sparked outrage by plastering "Make America White Again" on billboards in eastern Tennessee.

Rick Tyler, an Independent running in the 3rd District that includes the city of Chattanooga, almost immediately started catching hell for his racist spin on the presumptive Republican presidential candidate's slogan, "Make America Great Again."

So far there has been no response from the Trump campaign. But by Thursday the offending billboards located near Benton, Tennessee were taken down down after outraged residents complained, NBC affiliate WRCB reported.

Tyler insisted he had no hatred in his heart for "people of color." He told WRCB he just wants America to 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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[RKP5637]

1. FFS!!! Outrageous!!! n/t

[Xipe Totec]

2. no hatred in his heart for "people of color."

He just wants them to disappear quietly.

[3catwoman3]

8. I suppose you could have no hatred...

...in your heart when you don't have a heart.

[Xipe Totec]

9. Touché nt

[63splitwindow]

3. Ignorant redneck hick

Quick Google image search revealed this, among others...

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[Garion_55]

4. i was gonna swear this was on Onion post

or photoshopped, 4 Pinocchio, urban myth thing.

[PersonNumber503602]

7. I know, right?

[L. Coyote]

5. Lynching isn't a "violent crime" in his view? What a narrow-minded and thoughtless person.

Back to the60s when only whites voted, I presume!

[olddad56]

6. So he is more of a 'regressive' candidate.

I guess that is a republican who is more open about his feelings and desire to go back to the 'good IL days' of segregation, before the civil rights movement.

Maybe it is time for 2 new parties in this country, the Progressives and the Regressives

[dflprincess]

10. I gather he doesn't just want it to be white, he also wants it to be male

(well, women can stay but only if the know their place).

I'm seriously concerned that he doesn't understand the Nelsons' and the Cleavers' neighborhood were actually TV sets which might explain why there were "no break-ins; no violent crime; no mass immigration". (No doubt he thinks it's the lack of crime that was the reason Sheriff Taylor never carried a gun and only allowed Deputy Fife to have 1 bullet, and he had to keep that in his shirt pocket.)

[PdxSean]

11. Wow.

Count me wrong, but I laughed out loud when I saw this. Yes, it's hella outrageous, but I much prefer having these kinda folks shout to the moon "I'm racist and I'm proud!" rather than have them slithering around in congress pretending otherwise.

[Wuddles440]

12. I'm confused...

weren't the Native Americans here before the white man? Also, doesn't this cretin realize that Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver were fictional TV shows? I'm not sure what planet he was living on then, but break-ins, violent crime, and immigration were all factors of life in the 1950's. Next to the deity-like status of Ronnie Raygun, there's nothing more sacred to the Cons than their mythological depiction of the 1950's as being an idyllic utopia.

[Judi Lynn]

13. 'Make America White Again': Trump-inspired candidate sparks outrage with white supremacist billboard

'Make America White Again': Trump-inspired candidate sparks outrage with white supremacist billboards


Rick Tyler said an apparent rise in crime is due to the shrinking of the white population
Feliks Garcia New York |
@feliksjose |
4 hours ago

A Tennessee man running for a seat in the US House of Representatives ran on a simple platform, reminiscent of the so-far successful campaign of GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump: “Make America White Again”.



Billboards along the highway in Benton, a town almost 50 miles east of Chattanooga, donned Rick Tyler’s slogan. Mr Tyler - an Independent who is hoping to unseat Republican incumbent Chuck Fleischmann - immediately sparked criticism for his overtly white supremacist spin on Mr Trump’s pledge.

“When I designed the billboard, it was specifically to engender in people’s minds a thought process that would take them back to the 1960s,” Mr Tyler told NBC affiliate WRCB. “It was an America where you didn’t have to lock your doors. You didn’t have to worry about carjacking and home invasions. You didn’t have to worry about Muslim sleeper cells down the street. You didn’t have to worry about Islamic mosques radicalising people.

“It was an America that was far superior to the America that we live in today, and - not coincidentally - it was an America whose demographic was 85 per cent plus Caucasian.”

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/make-america-white-again-billboard-rick-tyler-donald-trump-tennessee-a7101906.html