Posted on 08/14/2020 3:04:20 PM PDT by Twotone
Thursday morning the city of Boise Idaho had a new billboard in circulation on an electronic sign by a major highway exit into town. The billboard message says “BLACK & BROWN FOLKS BUILT THIS COUNTRY (AND WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN) JOIN US OR GET OUT OF THE WAY!”. The billboard has a depiction of what is supposed to be Boise, ID held up by black and brown hands with a cop car burning in front of the capitol building. Activist Nisha Jae Newton takes credit for the billboard idea with credit given to the activist artist Morgan Baxter, a junior graphic designer for Happy Family (Nurture Inc) for the design. Lamar Advertising owns the billboard and the community erupted in fury over the billboard and it was removed before the day was over.
Region IV GOP Chairman Edward R. Humphreys called on people to make phone calls and send emails about the billboard.
He later posted as what he saw as a win when the billboard was taken down, amazed at how quickly they were able to get the company to remove it.
Lamar Advertising received immense push back for allowing the message on their billboard. The local Lamar Boise page had accumulated at least 110 negative reviews on Facebook before the review feature was turned off by Facebook.
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WHAT? East Portland(Portland east/Boise) was upset about the billboard? Because it was up or because it was taken down. Okay Idahoans, have at it.
Kommissar Zuckerberg will allow no opposing viewpoints. Your silent compliance is mandatory.
If they do something like that again burn the billboard.
That’s right, the Irish, German, Russian, Jewish, Italian, Polish, Asian, (I can keep going) populations of this country had nothing to do with building our country. I guess they just say on their a$$ and watched while black and brown people did all the hard work. Yeah....
Oh, and I will be in your way. Get out of mine!
A few shotgun blasts would make future ads like this less than cost effective. Most signs in Idaho have bullet holes in them anyway.
ever been to boise?I was last there in the 80’s, weren’t no blacks causing a ruckus because there weren’t a hell of a lot of them. did they force bus them in?
Burning could possibly hurt it but the billboard is on a steel pedestal. It’s also an electronic billboard. I’m thinking Wrist Rockets and steel ball bearings.
Boise is a college town. It is chock full of loonies.
Overt racism.
Disgusting.
Would LAMAR put up a billboard advocating white supremacy?
Tires would do a job on the steel and electronics.
Love the fantasy and imagination, THEY BUILT THIS COUNTRY
I just wrote to Lamar Advertising in Boise and told them I will NEVER buy a product I see advertised on a Lamar billboard.
Pleas write to Larry Alder, General Manager, Boise.
lalder@lamar.com
Not only is the billboard inaccurate; it is racist and openly threatens violence. Change the words 'black and brown' to white and the media would be apoplectic with outrage.
Hopefully this agency is strongly 'incentivized' to leave Idaho and set up shop in a more "woke" environment such as portland or seattle.
I was born and raised in Nampa, just 20 miles west of Boise. Black and brown people had nothing to do with building that area. There may be a lot of Mexicans working agriculture today, but when it was being built up, it was white people who did that building. My family has been in Idaho over 100 years.
Some of these companies are so effing greedy...They’ll do anything for a buck, even try to pimp out their own mother.
Like open borders and cheap labor....Profits regardless of consequences...
I’m guessing lots of yellow people helped build the railroad that brought in most of the material into Boise. I didn’t see their color mentioned.
BTW - the first time I heard the term “brown people” was only a few months ago. Maybe I had heard it before but didn’t notice. Now it is everywhere.
They don't care. This needs to be communicated to those who advertise with Lamar.
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