Residents in a Virginia neighborhood have been left outraged by a white supremacist group’s racist posters.
The posters were put up in Del Ray, a small neighborhood in Alexandria, over the weekend.
Their slogans included ‘you’re losing your country, white man!’ and ‘stop the blacks!’
They were removed by disgusted residents who took a photograph of them beforehand and shared it online.
The posters were put up by Vanguard America whose which seeks an America that is ‘exclusively for white peoples’.
All of the posters were black and white. One featured an image of a black man portrayed as a monkey clutching a knife. Its accompanying message was: ‘Around blacks never relax!’
These shockingly racist posters were put up in the neighborhood of Del Ray in Alexandria, Virginia, on Saturday by a white supremacist group
The posters were quickly torn down by disgusted residents who took photographs of them and posted them online to shame the group which created them
Another said: ‘Stop the rapes, stop the crime, stop the murder, stop the blacks!’ It included a shocking illustration of a black man attacking a white woman.
Sharing a photograph of the posters on Facebook, resident Reba Smith Winstead said: ‘These were found in Del Ray, early Saturday morning (and promptly removed).’
She described them as ‘a painful reminder that enjoying the SNL skits about our new reality is simply not good enough.’
‘Unfortunately, having a white nationalist organization headquartered in Alexandria makes the scared and fearful cowards more emboldened to try to spread their hate.
‘Hate and fear should never be the answer,’ she said.
The posters have since been replaced with messages of love and inclusiveness.
One poster said ‘fascism is the next step for America’. They were all created by Vanguard America
Resident Reba Smith Winstead shared the posters on Facebook on Saturday
One read: ‘Del Ray: The neighborhood that’s so inclusive even skinheads like to come here (but they run away in the dark).’
Mayor of Del Ray Allison Silberberg issued a scathing statement after they were discovered.
‘The fliers found in Del Ray are horrible and reflect a new low in ignorance. The Alexandria Police Department has responded quickly and is investigating. At this point, we do not know who posted the fliers.
‘As the City Council and I stated in our Statement on Inclusiveness last November, I would like to say in the strongest possible terms that we denounce hate speech, hate crimes, and discrimination in all forms. Alexandria is a city of kindness and compassion.
‘We are a city that is inclusive, accepting, and embracing. Diversity is a core value here.
‘Shame on those who have posted these hateful fliers,’ she said.
The posters were replaced with colorful messages of inclusion