"Time for the Klu Klux Klan to ride again" - Republican editor calls for lynchings

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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."

Goodloe Sutton, who is the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, 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, 79, 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 was in the Democrat-Reporter newsroom on Tuesday, a small white building with a newspaper box out front. Stacks of the weekly newspaper, sold individually for $1, were piled on the front counter.

Sutton declined to speak to an Advertiser reporter, stating he was too busy to talk on Tuesday but could meet later in the week.

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. Sutton and his wife, Jane, reported a series of stories of misused funds and abuse of power.

The New York Times in 1998 reported Sutton and the Democrat-Reporter lost advertising dollars and subscribers over their reporting.

In 2007, Sutton was inducted into the University of Southern Mississippi's School of Communication Hall of Fame for the couple's anti-corruption articles and editorials.

After the Advertiser reported on Sutton's recent editorial and comments, the university removed him from the Hall of Fame.

"Within the last few hours, the School of Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi learned of Mr. Goodloe Sutton’s call for violence and the return of the Ku Klux Klan," a USM release stated. "Mr. Sutton’s subsequent rebuttals and attempts at clarification only reaffirm the misguided and dangerous nature of his comments. The School of Communication strongly condemns Mr. Sutton’s remarks as they are antithetical to all that we value as scholars of journalism, the media, and human communication. Our University’s values of social responsibility and citizenship, inclusion and diversity, and integrity and civility are the foundation upon which we have built our School and its programs."

Locals in west Alabama say the Democrat-Reporter has a history of inflammatory, racist and offensive language on the editorial page. A review of archived print editions reveal headlines such as "Homosexuals take black spotlight" and an editorial which stated "Slavery was a good lesson for Jews."

In 2015, the paper ran a headline titled: “Selma black thugs murder Demopolite Saturday night.” At that time, the paper had about 3,000 subscribers.

The paper also regularly republishes what appear to old editorials from the 1930s and 1940s, which include multiple instances of racist slurs.

Justin Coleman, a 38-year-old who calls the Linden and Demopolis area home, said the Democrat-Reporter has "called for violence against minorities for years."

"It has gone unchecked for decades," said Coleman, who is African-American.
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Alabama newspaper editor calls for Ku Klux Klan 'to night ride again'

*Waits for Trump-set to come and Julez*
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Rednecks talking about going to Washington and hanging elites

Id like to see these pick up trucks pull up on capitol hill. The imagery:dead:

Edit: he's mad at the very thing he voted in. He got bamboozled and now hes mad. His Obamacare went up, his tax return dry, yet taxes went up and now he has to pay for a wall trump promised him Mexico would pay for. He thought they were only going to cut black food stamps now he looking at a half of a booklet like:wtf:

fukking idiot, he thought it was gonna hurt liberals on the coasts where states have enough to cover it's people during federal fukkery while Alabama too broke and won't get bailed out for shyt. Trump gives no fukks about the poor, this red neck thought he wasnt poor lol :laff:
 
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Them crackas not as thug as they ancestors and we not as docile as ours. They don't want that smoke I promise.
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Breh our ancestors weren’t that docile. They don’t tell about those who fought back and...won. Or died fighting.

Also, we are very docile today, just not with each other. You see it everyday.
 
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:mjlol: Yeah those rich white fukks gonna just let a group of armed racist rednecks swarm washington trying to kill them...
 
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