Political Animals Elsewhere in Tennessee

Racist East Tennessee Politician Thinks "Leave it to Beaver" was Real?

by Chris Davis

June 22, 2016

14 comments

Do it for the Beaver.

Remember that moment in November 2008, following the election of President Obama, when serious news

Rick AKA Dick

commentators actually bandied around the idea that we might be living in a "post-racial America?" Apparently nobody bothered to tell yahoo/U.S. House candidate Rick Tyler, who's currently running as an independent in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District.

Tyler has erected a campaign sign that says, "Make America White Again," and a second sign juxtaposing language from Martin Luther King's, "I Have a Dream," speech with a picture of the White House. A White House festooned with confederate flags, that is.

Classy, right?

Tyler also told WRCB news he was nostalgic for TV shows like Ozzie & Harriet, and the "Leave it to Beaver time when there were no break-ins; no violent crime; no mass immigration." And so on.

Because, you know, TV is real.

According to the New York Daily News Tyler made a post on his website naming Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump as an inspiration. That post has been taken down.

Ward explains gender roles to Wally.

UPDATE: The signs have been removed.

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