Whether or not the people of TN fell for it, which I doubt, is irrelevant. I lived in Oak Ridge for almost 2 years and I liked the people there and I saw no discrimination, even though it was definitely a time of transition for that region. It's the people who deliberately designed the ad to appeal to racists who are the villains here. Any Southerner old enough to remember white and colored restrooms and who grew up in that environment will know immediately what this ad was all about. It hit me like a kick in the gut, I knew immediately what they were trying to do and how they were going about it.

What's really ironic about this is that I don't even know that the people who put this ad together were racists themselves. They probably felt so righteous about their cause that they felt it was justified. The end justifies the means. It is not only insulting to the man they attacked, it was an insult to the audience they aimed it at. You can believe whatever you want, but the ad was disgraceful and malicious, and the people who designed it that way were low-life scum.