“It’s OK to be white” stickers have drawn the ire of a Salisbury Township resident.

The stickers were placed on several street and traffic signs in the vicinity of Keystone Road, Country Club Road and Devonshire Road on Salisbury’s west side, according to the woman.

“Did anyone see the white lives matter signs and stickers on signs at Country Club and Devonshire?” the woman said during the courtesy of the floor portion of the March 28 board of commissioners’ meeting.

“It’s like graffiti,” the woman said, adding, “I scraped a few off.” She said that after she did so, in some instances, new stickers were placed on the signs.

“I don’t like it,” the woman said of the stickers.

Similar stickers have been reported in cities and on college campuses in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, going back to at least 2017 and possibly before then.

The Anti-Defamation League has reported that the phrase, “It’s OK to be white” has “a history within the white supremacist movement going back to 2001.” The phrase was the title of a song recorded by Aggressive Force, said to be a white power pop music group. The phrase was also said to be used by a member of the United Klans of America, according to the ADL.

The stated mission of the ADL is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”

The township resident, who asked a reporter for The Press not to disclose her name because she said she’s concerned about retaliation, said she called the Salisbury Township Police Department nonemergency phone number to complain about the stickers.

She said one of the stickers was placed on an open grate bridge sign near a steel bridge along Keystone Road.

On March 29, a photographer for The Press took a photo of the sticker.

“Isn’t it against the law to do that?” township board of commissioners’ Vice President Debra Brinton asked, referring to the placement of stickers on municipal street and traffic signs.

“Yes,” Salisbury Township Chief of Police Allen W. Stiles replied.

“It started in Emmaus,” claimed the woman.

Township officials, including Stiles and Salisbury Township Director of Public Works John Andreas, said they would look into the matter.

“If our officers observe any illegal activity, we will take appropriate action. Anyone causing damage to public property, will be cited and they will make restitution for any damage caused,” Stiles said in an email to The Press.

Pro-white propaganda has appeared on college campuses in the past two years.

Leaflets with the “OK to be white” message appeared at the University of Vermont. Posters with the “OK to be white” message appeared at Duke University, North Carolina State University, University of Delaware and University of Denver.

According to the ADL, there were 292 cases of white supremacist propaganda reported on campuses during the 2017-2018 academic year, compared to 165 in 2016-2017.