White nationalist poster near Kansas Capitol concerns NAACP leader

A white supremacist poster across the street from the Kansas Capitol is a cause for concern, according to a member of the Legislature who also leads Topeka’s chapter of the NAACP.

The poster, which bears the message “Our future belongs to us,” was taped to an electronic crosswalk near the Capitol. It appears to be part of a nationwide campaign by a white nationalist group called Identity Evropa, which posted the signs in cities around the country on the July 4 weekend.

The group’s Twitter page also showed that it put up posters in Wichita, Kansas City, Kan., and Johnson County.

“Just the tenor of what’s going on raises some kind of suspicion or some kind of concern that there are entities like this around our Capitol or around our city at all,” said Rep. Ben Scott, D-Topeka, who is president of the Topeka chapter of the NAACP. “It is a concern, and it’s almost like it’s another issue where you’re opening up old wounds again.”

Scott said he had reached out to Topeka police about the matter. A spokeswoman for the police did not immediately return a request for comment.

This story was originally published July 6, 2016 at 1:11 PM with the headline "White nationalist poster near Kansas Capitol concerns NAACP leader."