Sign over I-5 hate speech or free speech?

by Nicole Comstock

Fri, September 13th 2013, 7:00 AM UTC

<p><a href="/news/local/Sign-slung-over-I-5-in-metro-area-222420621.html" target="_blank">The banner read "anti-racist is a code word for anti-white”</a>, and has since been removed.</p>

Marr says the slogan is so simple it defies explanation. Mark Potok with the Southern Poverty Law Center disagrees, saying he has spent a year investigating it.

Opponents can either criticize or ignore this slogan, said Michael Carrigan with Community Alliance of Lane County. But it's only challenging hate speech, he says, that makes a change in your community.

"We’re most concerned about the broader message they were sending out to the public," said Carrigan.

As Jimmy Marr stood back to admire his banner, he realized he could only see the back of it. So his wife parked along the freeway and took a picture.

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The banner read "anti-racist is a code word for anti-white”, and has since been removed.

Marr says the slogan is so simple it defies explanation. Mark Potok with the Southern Poverty Law Center disagrees, saying he has spent a year investigating it.

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