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Racist sign referring to Barack Obama causes stir in Harris County can stay up
"the street out here where white people try to live – good people,” he said.

08:36 AM CDT on Friday, June 13, 2008

By Vicente Arenas / 11 News

Raw video of confrontation -- Warning: May be offensive

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- Neighbors say a sign posted by a Houston-area
man is causing tension and fear.

They say the sign is offensive. It makes a derogatory and profane reference
to Sen. Barack Obama’s bid to become president.

“Whoever did this is a racist,” neighbor Laz Socarras said.

“They hatin’ on Obama,” neighbor Jarmaine Calvin said.

The painted plywood sign, which Calvin said he drives past every day, has
the “n-word” and another profanity prominently displayed on it.

It’s posted on an empty corner lot full of junk and overgrown weeds.

“When I first seen it, I wanted to tear it down. I still want to tear it down,” Calvin said.

The neighborhood where the sign is posted is populated mostly with Hispanics
and whites – only a few blacks.

Brenda Carr is one of them.

“My daughter seen it first. And when I backed up and I first seen, I backed up
and said ‘Oh my God. I can’t believe they put that on there like that,’” Carr said.

The man who claims to own the sign stopped and talked to 11 News while we
were working on this story.

He focused on the other side of the sign, which criticizes the lack of law
enforcement in the area.

“We don’t have good law enforcement out here. The whores run up and down
the street out here where white people try to live – good people,” he said.

The sign is located in Harris County, and officials said it does not violate any ordinances.

“The First Amendment gives you the right to say what you want to say.
Exclude people from the property if you wish. The First Amendment is a pretty
healthy animal,” 11 News legal expert Gerald Treece said.

Since the sign doesn’t make any kind of threat, the Secret Service said
there’s really nothing that can be done.

Meanwhile, neighbors said all they can do is look the other way.