Arkansas Residents Taken Aback By New KKK Billboard

Locals in Arkansas are furious over a new billboard sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan that voices support for white power.

The billboard, erected in Harrison on Highway 65, is sponsored by The Knights Party and promotes a White Power radio station. The billboard features an image of a Caucasian girl holding a puppy with the words: "It's not racist to love your people."

The billboard then goes on to offer the website for the radio, www.whiteprideradio.com, along with the tagline: "love lives here."

The controversial web-based radio program includes segments like "This is the Klan," "The White Side" and "White Women's Perspective."

Thom Robb, national director of The Knights Party, told the Harrison Daily that his group erected the billboard and has a lease on the sign until the end of the year. Robb added that his group will probably renew their lease come 2016.

Robb told the local media outlet that he has been working on the White Power radio station for over a year now, and wanted to advertise it. The KKK member added that there's no reason behind the timing of the billboard, except he wanted to get it up at the start of 2015.

"We just wanted to wait until the first of the year," Robb said.

Plenty of Harrison residents have spoken out regarding the billboard, with some questioning if the message is actually racist.

"It does seem to come off as pretty racist in a sense that whites are more superior," James Hernandez, a Harrison resident, told Ozarks First.

"It's just discomforting," Hernandez added.