TOLEDO, Ohio -- An Ohio band slated to perform at a rib festival this Friday has been booted after the group's lead singer wrote a post on Facebook supporting white nationalists who protested last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, reports say.

The Blade, which sponsors the Northwest Ohio Rib Off, decided to remove Rodney Parker and Liberty Beach after being made aware of the Facebook post, the Blade reports.

"The Northwest Ohio Rib Off is a fun, family event," said Kurt Franck, executive vice president, interim general manager, and executive editor of The Blade. "There is no room for racism, bigotry, or hate."

The band's lead singer, Rodney Parker, published the post Tuesday morning on his Facebook page:

"Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Communists, Socialists; PURE TRASH, PERIOD. Certainly, in the face of this ongoing, relentless behavior from these leftist agitators, White Nationalists (who're NOT White Supremacists, just so we're clear) TOTALLY have a legitimate right to SPEAK, BE HEARD and retaliate. Mainstream media wants to manipulate and keep you timid and full of white guilt, and that empowers these leftist [a**]. Do NOT fall for that communist tactic EVER."

Parker tells the Blade he was targeted by a political opponent whom he had banned from his Facebook page. He issued a statement defending his post, WTOL Channel 11 reports.

"I am NOT a racist in any way, shape or form, nor is the Facebook post at hand racist in any way, shape or form," Parker said. "I am objectivist, and my philosophy is generally at odds with any type of collectives. I am in no way associated, a member or adjoined to in any way, ANY political movement, party, nationalists or otherwise other than voting status."

The country band is based in Sylvania, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo. James A. Fields, the man accused of driving his car into a crowd at Charlottesville, killing one person and injuring 19 others, had been living in Maumee, also a Toledo suburb.