Written By Lexx Thornton For days, a billboard lacking context and showing two Black clowns alongside the message “It’s time to get the clowns out” ignited outrage and stirred suspicions of political undertones. The message also came just weeks before key runoff elections in majority Black cities of Mobile and Prichard. On Wednesday, after prolonged silence, the billboard’s owner, Michael Lewis, broke his silence on WBLX-FM, an urban and hip-hop radio station in Mobile. The billboard, he said, “doesn’t have anything to do with y’all politics.” Lewis, who is Black, owns Bumblebee Billboards and is collaborating with comedian Joe Paige
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