America is a big and diverse country, which in most respects is a great thing, but it almost makes it easier for it to retain enclaves of people with attitudes so far from the mainstream that it’s difficult to believe that such a place could still exist. It also makes you wonder how many people hold these attitudes but keep quiet about it.
The documentary The Most Hateful Small Town in America? follows a gay man as he travels to Harrison, Arkansas, a town with a bad reputation for bigotry cloaked in a gown of pious Christianity. He discovers that while there are people there trying to change both the town and people’s thoughts about it, you don’t even have to scratch the surface to find racism, homophobia, anti-semitism, islamophobia and just about ever other flavour of hate you can imagine. Indeed, the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has his office nearby.
Indeed, as the trailer shows, you don’t even have to speak to the people, as there are plenty of billboards around the place that are essentially white supremacism in 21st Century clothes. IN just two-minutes, that trailer presents a very disturbing picture, not just that such attitudes still exist, but they can be seen as so normal and natural. Take a look below.
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