It isn’t a threat and it isn’t actively promoting violence but a flyer that’s been making the rounds in a Beaverton neighborhood has some people upset over it’s message.
The flyers, which say “It’s OK to be white,” have popped up on power poles and street lights in the Sexton Mountain area.
One neighbor told KOIN 6 News that part of town is a melting pot and she wants everyone to feel safe.
“On a lamp post there, it was just right smack in my eye line like someone put it there intentionally,” Mary Elizabeth Summer said. “I instantly ripped it down.”
Summer couldn’t believe she found the flyer just down the street from her front door. She said it upset her so much, she took it home and ran it through the shredder.
Others in the neighborhood have spotted them too.
“My neighbor, Naomi, she also crossed one today and sent me a picture of it,” Summer said.
Different flyers were also seen last week, which neighbors said are related to a white nationalist radio host from the East Coast.
The “It’s OK to be white” flyer, it seems, is not unique to these streets — far from it.
Earlier this month the Sacramento Bee reported identical flyers popping up around American River College and in Florida, the Anti-defamation League said a Target employee placed a card with the phrase in a box of diapers.
What started as a prank on the online forum 4Chan is now reported as being associated with white nationalism.
