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Juanita feels the same way about racists as she does about guns – “I want to know who is carrying so I can avoid them.”  That’s her theory.

“I do not believe in concealed handguns,” she says.  “I think you ought to have to carry them on your hip in a holster in full view of everybody.  That way, I know who’s carrying, so when seven dudes with itchy trigger fingers who are just flirting with being on the nightly news for having shot some guy robbing the Stop-N-Shop are looking over my shoulder and across the room at each other while I pick up some milk and a lottery ticket, I know to either get my shotgun to put an end to the crossfire or leave the store.”

“I feel the same way about racists,” she continues.

“Back after the Presidential election, we hung an Obama banner here at the Beauty Salon on Inaugural Day.  A neighbor, who we only knew in passing, drove his pick-up to the salon and starting hollering the N word about our Presidential choice.  Until that moment, we had no idea what a total creep this guy was.  This really did happen.  And while Verdelia called the police, I chased him with a can of Aqua-Net and a curling iron intent on either doing his hair or ridding him of the problem.  Okay, so I really didn’t chase him, but it makes a good story.”

“I feel the same way about the Stars and Bars.  I think we should let people fly it.  If somebody is flying the Stars and Bars in Texas, where we truly don’t identify with the South very much because we’ve got Sam Houston and the Alamo and Juan Seguin and all, then you know they are a racist.  I want to know where they’re at.”

“I don’t want to sit next to one at the ballpark, pray next to one at church, or accidentally elect one to the school board or even the Senate in Missouri,” she says.

As the election draws closer, a local candidate is creating quite a name for himself.

Glenn Miller’s message is described as shocking, and horrifying.

Over the coming months he says it will be a reoccurring theme, as tries to grab a seat in the nation’s capital.

“It’s important that i provoke people,” Miller said. “I do that deliberately.”

Bashful is not a word typically used to describe the Lawrence County man.

The white supremacist has argued his values for 40 years. Now he’s trying to push his beliefs to Washington D.C. “I’m running for the Untied States Senate as a write in candidate. I’m going to do my best to win it.”

Thanks to a new radio ad, Miller’s message has been clear.

“You don’t care do you whitey,” Miller questions the public during his ad. “All you care about is satisfying your belly pocketbook and genitals and watching the coons play ball on television.”

He’s running the controversial political spots on Springfield radio stations.

“See, I think it’s better that we listen to a load of crap like that and get it right out there in the open,” she contends.  “You know as well as I do that Sarah Palin and her Teabaggers  feel that way but don’t say it on the electric radio so everybody will know it.   They talk that way behind closed doors.”

“I think we should get it out in the open where we can wave at it on the way to the voting booth.”

Juanita said that; she really did.

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