Thousands sign petition to remove white pride billboard near KKK headquarters in Arkansas
Thousands have signed an online petition to remove a billboard about white pride in Arkansas near the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan.
As of Friday afternoon, more than 9,200 had signed the petition, which CNN reports was launched by the Harrison Community Task Force on Race Relations, which wants its city of Harrison, Ark. to be better represented.
The billboard shows a photo of two white adults and children holding an American flag alongside a sketch of a cross with a dove and a flame. It advertises the websites WhitePrideRadio.com and AltRightTV.com.
The billboard has reportedly been in the area since 2013, but gained renewed attention when a white filmmaker recently stood in the spot with a Black Lives Matter sign and filmed the interactions he had with people in cars driving by.
The petition specifically calls on the company that owns the billboard, Pro-Signs, Inc. dba Harrison Sign Company, to remove the sign.
“Our race relations task force has worked to successfully remove four of the five privately-owned billboards,” they said. “They continue trying to remove the last one.”
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