The editor of a small-town Alabama newspaper published an editorial calling for “the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” against “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats who are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama,” the Montgomery Advertiserreports. Writes editor Goodloe Sutton: “If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off.”
Editor who wrote Klan editorial has penned countless racist, sexist, xenophobic pieces https://www.alreporter.com/2019/02/...ed-countless-racist-sexist-xenophobic-pieces/ Note that both Republican and Democratic politicians in the state have been demanding that this editor resign for a long time.
Oh look exGoper is oppressed again over in timbuktu and commenting on the U.S. Just driving the hate bus... for 7 cents a post.
Follow-up news... Black Woman Hired as New Editor and Publisher of Alabama Newspaper That Called for KKK to ‘Ride Again’ https://www.thewrap.com/alabama-new...crat-reporter-elecia-r-dexter-goodloe-sutton/ After both local and nationwide condemnation, Goodloe Sutton, the editor of the local Alabama newspaper The Democrat-Reporter, announced he is stepping down after publishing an op-ed calling for the Ku Klux Klan to ride again. He is being replaced by 46-year-old African-American Elecia R. Dexter, The New York Times reports. While Sutton is stepping down as editor, he will remain on to advise Dexter. According to The Times, Sutton said he is leaving the post due to his age and refuses to apologize for the op-ed, which he said was written “in irony.” Dexter, who has a masters degree in human services and counseling, and joined The Democrat-Reporter as an office clerk less than two months ago with no prior journalistic experience. Sutton, 80, has been in charge of The Democrat-Reporter since the 1980s as the 144-year-old paper has been in his family for generations. According to The Times, the paper had respect in the town of Linden, AL, for investigative reporting into local law enforcement corruption. But in the past few years, Sutton and The Democrat-Reporter have faced backlash for publishing several racially charged op-eds, including a 2017 article with no byline called “Let Football Boys Kneel” that attacked Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players who kneeled during the national anthem. “That’s what black folks were taught to do two hundred years ago, kneel before a white man,” read the piece. “Is that it? Let them kneel!”
She didn't last long... Weeks after taking over Alabama newspaper that called for Klan to 'ride again,' black editor steps down https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/media/alabama-newspaper-klan-editor-resigns/index.html An African-American woman who was named publisher and editor of the Alabama newspaper that recently urged the Ku Klux Klan to "night ride again" has stepped down, citing what she said was continuous and damaging interference by the paper's owner. Elecia R. Dexter, who took over the troubled Democrat-Reporter of Linden last month, told CNN Saturday that she left the weekly newspaper Monday because she could no longer work with owner and former editor and publisher Goodloe Sutton. He penned a staggering editorial with the headline "The Klan Needs to Ride Again" in the February 14 edition. Dexter said she resigned "so that her integrity and well-being can be maintained." Attempts to reach Sutton for comment were unsuccessful. (More at above url)