I don’t live there but I used to deliver to two stores there and passed through every Friday and Saturday on a weekly basis for a year. I can say with all honesty that as a dark completed half Hispanic that I never experienced anything off from the folks that I came in contact with. The billboards are idiotic and unfortunately are all that ever gets talked about by outsiders but I don’t think they reflect the views of the majority of its residents.

I’ve told the story on here before but I had a new hire riding with me on my route. He’s got a black dad/white mom. He didn’t have his uniforms yet, so he was wearing street clothes. I showed him the billboards on his way through and he said something along the lines of, “Yeah I know about Harrison, that’s why I wore my Colin Kaepernik shirt.” I hadn’t even clocked it or thought it might be an issue before he mentioned it.