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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'White Genocide' Billboard Appears On Alabama Highway
'White Genocide' Billboard Appears On Alabama Highway
By Catherine Thompson Published January 12, 2015, 11:32 AM EST
A billboard displaying a message tied to a segregationist "mantra" popular with white supremacists has cropped up outside of Birmingham, Alabama, a city that has seen several racially charged, separatist signs posted in recent years.
AL.com reported Sunday that a billboard reading "Diversity means chasing down the last white person #whitegenocide" was posted on I-59 in St. Clair County.
The news website noted the similarity between the billboard and one posted within Birmingham city limits in June 2013 reading "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white." AL.com reported that both phrases are attributed to the White Genocide Project, a group composed of white supremacists and segregationists.
The "anti-racist is a code for anti-white" phrase is part of a creed known as the "Mantra" that was written by segregationist Robert Whitaker in the mid-2000s, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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By Catherine Thompson Published January 12, 2015, 11:32 AM EST
A billboard displaying a message tied to a segregationist "mantra" popular with white supremacists has cropped up outside of Birmingham, Alabama, a city that has seen several racially charged, separatist signs posted in recent years.
AL.com reported Sunday that a billboard reading "Diversity means chasing down the last white person #whitegenocide" was posted on I-59 in St. Clair County.
The news website noted the similarity between the billboard and one posted within Birmingham city limits in June 2013 reading "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white." AL.com reported that both phrases are attributed to the White Genocide Project, a group composed of white supremacists and segregationists.
The "anti-racist is a code for anti-white" phrase is part of a creed known as the "Mantra" that was written by segregationist Robert Whitaker in the mid-2000s, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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'White Genocide' Billboard Appears On Alabama Highway (Original Post)
MohRokTah
Jan 2015
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Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)1. They should put those signs
low enough to the ground that an ordinary person can piss on them.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)2. *pant, pant* "Run for your lives!" *pant* "Gay communist muslims are coming!"
arcane1
(38,613 posts)3. Last time I was in Alabama there was nary a white person to be seen.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. I thought everyone in Birmingham was a Muslim.
Oh, right, wrong Birmingham.
mentalsolstice
(4,461 posts)5. It's been removed
Folks in B'ham proper don't take kindly to this shit.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)6. Wait, I thought we were supposed to be converted to the gay agenda!
Or to the Muslin religion? Now I'm so confused.
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)7. Who owns that billboard?
Not the person who put the message up, but the owners of the board itself.