Controversial billboard allowed to stay up in Harrison, Ark.

A controversial billboard in Harrison will stay up under the protection of land ownership and First Amendment rights.

The sign reads WhitePrideRadio.com. Exactly a year after 8,000 in the community signed a petition to have the billboard taken down, it is visible for all to see. Many recognize it from social media. It is one of the first things you see as you enter Harrison on north bound U.S. 65.

”I don’t like it, it doesn’t mean I have to love it,” said Elaine Goff, a life long resident of Harrison. “But there’s things in this world that happen that we don’t like anyway. And they’re within their individual rights to freely express what they want on that sign.”

The sign was originally put up in 2013 and is one many feel doesn’t reflect Harrison.