Arkansas Town Responds To Controversial 'Anti-Racist Is A Code Word For Anti-White' Sign: The billboard has been up since Oct. 15 in the north Arkansas town. The Huffington Post first learned of its existence when a reader who spotted the sign on a recent road trip sent in a photo.
"Although we were all horrified by the billboard and really could not understand how this could happen in 2013, I did photograph it as I needed more time to meditate on the people that did this," the tipster wrote.
Harrison has just 34 black residents out of a population of 12,943, according to 2010 census figures cited by KATV. Ten years ago, the town established a race-relations task force in an attempt to adjust it’s reputation for racial discrimination and violence.
A report from the Associated Press calls attention to race riots in the early 20th century that were responsible for chasing “all but one black person from Harrison.” The KKK uses a P.O. Box located in the town, and its headquarters are 15 miles away in Zinc, Ark.
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