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An image purportedly showing a racist memo from Roy John McNatt in which the Arkansas judge allegedly asked to have black people removed from the road department reappears for unknown reasons every few years, despite having been investigated and debunked years before: The memo, which was dated 30 March 2005, was investigated by Arkansas state officials in 2008. At the time, McNatt called the letter a complete lie and said that someone was attempting to smear him in an attempt to sway the election. The Texarkana Gazette reported: The Texarkana Gazette noted several other factors indicating that this memo was a hoax. For instance, the memo did not match the judge's stationery; Road Foreman J.W. Crabtree, whom the memo was addressed, said that he never received the message; and the word foreman was misspelled. McNatt also passed a polygraph test about the document with flying colors: Even though the memo was found to be a hoax in 2008, the racist message has continued to plague McNatt. The bogus letter surfaced again as McNatt was running for Miller County Judge in March 2016: If somebody was attempting to smear McNatt in an attempt to sway the election, it didn't work. McNatt won the race for Miller County Judge in 2016.
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