An Independent candidate for Congress in Tennessee is under fire after his campaign billboard stated “Make America White Again.”
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Rick Tyler, who is running for the 3rd Congressional District in the Northeastern part of Tennessee, allegedly placed his billboard along Highway 411 in Polk County. Tyler claims he did this because “America of old was vastly superior to what we are experiencing today.”
In a Facebook post on Wednesday night Tyler stated, “It was an America where doors were left unlocked, violent crime was a mere fraction of today’s rate of occurrence, there were no car jackings, home invasions, Islamic Mosques or radical Jihadist sleeper cells.”
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Allegedly, Tyler then placed a second sign on the Polk County Highway which used Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” quote placed above an image of the White House surrounded by Confederate flags.
According to reports, after public outcry the billboards were taken down Tuesday night.
