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"Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again" - Alabama newspaper editor calls for Klan return to 'clean out D.C.'
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2019 Feb 18, 7:30pm 855 views 6 comments
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anonymous
2019 Feb 18, 7:38pm
Lawmakers not surprised at editorial calling for Klan’s return
Two state lawmakers from west Alabama said today they had not seen an editorial in the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden headlined “Klan needs to ride again” but said they are not surprised because of what they said is the newspaper’s track record for racist content.
And U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., called for the man who wrote it to resign.
The editorial says it’s “Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” because “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
Goodloe Sutton, editor and publisher of the Democrat-Reporter, told the Montgomery Advertiser that he wrote the editorial, published on Feb. 14.
“If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” Sutton told the Advertiser.
Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, said he doesn’t subscribe to or read the Democrat-Reporter.
“He’s been making those kind of racist epithets for a long time,” Singleton said.
“Goodloe is just being Goodloe as far as I’m concerned.” But Singleton said he does not take the comments lightly.
Rep. A.J. McCampbell, D-Livingston, said he had not heard about the Klan editorial.
“That kind of ignorance is the reason I don’t even subscribe to the paper,” McCampbell said. He said he advertised in the paper at one time but no longer has anything to do with it.
https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/lawmakers-not-surprised-at-editorial-calling-for-klans-return.html
Can't make this shit up folks - the war never ended down there and neither did a lot of other things, then again if you are into that sort of thing - you know where to move to, if you are not living there already.
Most anyplace along the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama coasts and Florida Panhandle will work so you can have easy beach access during the day.
Need something more hard core ?
Go inland a wee bit - not far, you lose that easy access to the beaches but gain so much more - works the same in any state I mentioned.
Prices for houses drop as well when you get away from the beach in case your budget is tight.
Two state lawmakers from west Alabama said today they had not seen an editorial in the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden headlined “Klan needs to ride again” but said they are not surprised because of what they said is the newspaper’s track record for racist content.
And U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., called for the man who wrote it to resign.
The editorial says it’s “Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” because “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
Goodloe Sutton, editor and publisher of the Democrat-Reporter, told the Montgomery Advertiser that he wrote the editorial, published on Feb. 14.
“If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” Sutton told the Advertiser.
Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, said he doesn’t subscribe to or read the Democrat-Reporter.
“He’s been making those kind of racist epithets for a long time,” Singleton said.
“Goodloe is just being Goodloe as far as I’m concerned.” But Singleton said he does not take the comments lightly.
Rep. A.J. McCampbell, D-Livingston, said he had not heard about the Klan editorial.
“That kind of ignorance is the reason I don’t even subscribe to the paper,” McCampbell said. He said he advertised in the paper at one time but no longer has anything to do with it.
https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/lawmakers-not-surprised-at-editorial-calling-for-klans-return.html
Can't make this shit up folks - the war never ended down there and neither did a lot of other things, then again if you are into that sort of thing - you know where to move to, if you are not living there already.
Most anyplace along the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama coasts and Florida Panhandle will work so you can have easy beach access during the day.
Need something more hard core ?
Go inland a wee bit - not far, you lose that easy access to the beaches but gain so much more - works the same in any state I mentioned.
Prices for houses drop as well when you get away from the beach in case your budget is tight.
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HeadSet
2019 Feb 18, 7:51pm
HeadSet
2019 Feb 18, 7:51pm
I see that the old militant arm of the Democrat Party is not completely faded away.....
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anonymous
2019 Feb 18, 8:05pm
I see that the old militant arm of the Democrat Party is not completely faded away.....
And now they support Trump too - wow !
By the way thanks Headset for hacking in and bumping my thread !
And now they support Trump too - wow !
By the way thanks Headset for hacking in and bumping my thread !
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MrMagic
2019 Feb 18, 8:12pm
MrMagic
2019 Feb 18, 8:12pm
Kakistocracy says
You should go send him over to see Jussie Smollett and have him do it the right way this time, so it's not faked.
"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton said.
You should go send him over to see Jussie Smollett and have him do it the right way this time, so it's not faked.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 19, 1:59am
jazz_music says
Bigly and in large numbers as well....
... but all racists and bigots voted for Trump.
Bigly and in large numbers as well....
Goodloe Sutton — who is the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama — confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday that he authored the Feb. 14 editorial calling for the return of a white supremacist hate group.
"If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off," Sutton said.
Asked to elaborate what he meant by "cleaning up D.C.," Sutton suggested lynching.
"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton said.
When asked if he felt it was appropriate for the publisher of a newspaper to call for the lynching of Americans, Sutton doubled down on his position.
"... It's not calling for the lynchings of Americans. These are socialist-communists we're talking about. Do you know what socialism and communism is?" Sutton said.
In the newspaper editorial, Sutton wrote:
Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama. They do not understand how to eliminate expenses when money is needed in other areas. This socialist-communist ideology sounds good to the ignorant, the uneducated, and the simple-minded people.
When asked if he recognized the KKK as a racist and violent organization, Sutton disagreed, comparing the Klan to the NAACP.
"A violent organization? Well, they didn't kill but a few people," Sutton said. "The Klan wasn't violent until they needed to be."
Sutton said he didn't know any Klan remaining in the area, stating most died out after the 1960s.
The editor said he welcomed people to call him, write him a letter or boycott him.
Sutton, who has worked at the paper since 1964, inherited the publication from his father. Sutton and the newspaper received national acclaim in the 1990s for their reporting on a corrupt local sheriff.
In 2015, he ran a headline titled: “Selma black thugs murder Demopolite Saturday night.” At that time, the paper had about 3,000 subscribers.
Linden is located about 100 miles due west of Montgomery near the Mississippi border.
Chip Brownlee and Mikayla Burns — editor-in-chief and managing editor, respectively, at The Auburn Plainsman — first spotted Sutton's editorial and shared it online Monday.
"As a newspaper editor myself it's disturbing to see this type of editorial printed," Brownlee said via email. "Granted, I'm the editor of a student newspaper, but all newspapers should be held to the highest ethical and moral standards. Editorials should be about new ideas, constructive criticism and opinion backed up by facts. To call for the return of domestic terrorism — no matter its form — is counterproductive and wrong. It's important to welcome and encourage differing opinions, but violence is never right."
The Advertiser contacted the Alabama Press Association, the state trade association for newspapers in the state, to inquire whether or not Sutton and the Democrat-Reporter were members.
"We do not agree with the opinion," said Felicia Mason, APA executive director. "However, APA is not a policing agency. We simply have no authority over what our member newspapers publish."
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/02/18/alabama-newspaper-ku-klux-klan-to-night-ride-again-linden-democrat-reporter-goodloe-sutton/2910436002/
#KKK #Alabama
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