“Every other race looks out for each other. Isn’t it time white people do the same?,” asks a poster found at Clark Field.
That flier is just one of several Tremont residents who are outraged over finding this week.
Megan Jones-Turner told me she was walking her dogs at the Clark Field trail that begins at West 11th Street and Clark Avenue this weekend.
The sign she found said, “We are approximately 4% of the world’s population. If it’s gone, everyone will look Asian or African. Protect us.”
The poster also included a hashtag: #OWLM, which stands for ‘Only White Lives Matter.’
“It’s very disheartening. [It’s] very disappointing that people feel this way. Also, making it into something that is about race, ‘people will look out for one another,’ I feel like just because that’s the right thing to do [that] you’re actually making more division by pointing out differences rather than finding the things that unite you and make you the same,” Jones-Turner said.
Jones-Turner said she wasn’t planning on sharing what she saw, but another Tremont local shared a poster taped to the outside of Dante on social media. It said, “Embrace your race.”