Alabama newspaper editor calls on KKK to lynch Democrats
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
The editor and publisher of a local paper in Alabama is under fire for penning an editorial calling for mass lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
The opinion piece ran in his print-only newspaper, the Democrat-Reporter, last Thursday, Goodloe Sutton confirmed on Tuesday.
He said Democrats were going to raise taxes and that the KKK should hang them and raid Washington DC.
Alabama lawmakers have called for Sutton to resign.
The KKK is one of the oldest white supremacy groups in the US, formed just after the civil war. The group was behind many of the lynchings, rapes and violent attacks on African Americans in the 1900s.
The editorial began garnering attention online after students from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, tweeted photographs of the article.
Sutton could not be immediately reached for comment on the matter.
He was once a celebrated journalist, commended for his ethics by other news outlets - including the New York Times and American Journalism Review.
What did the editorial say?
A short editorial piece published without a byline on 14 February was entitled: "Klan needs to ride again."
"Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again," the article said, referencing the KKK's terrorising raids through black communities.
"Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama... This socialist-communist ideology sounds good to the ignorant, the uneducated, and the simple-minded people."
"Seems like the Klan would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there."
Sutton later confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser that he had written the article .
"If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out DC we'd all been better off," he said. "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them."
"It's not calling for the lynchings of Americans. These are socialist-communists we're talking about."
Sutton also told the paper he did not believe the Klan was a violent organisation.
"They didn't kill but a few people. The Klan wasn't violent until they needed to be."
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center , there are currently around 5,000 to 8,000 KKK members across the US; during the Klan's heyday in the 1900s, there were as many as four million members.
DAVID HOLLOWAY VIA GETTY IMAGES Klan members light torches at White Heritage Days Festival in Alabama in 2004
What's the reaction?
Alabama Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat who won a bitter race against Republican Roy Moore , expressed his shock over the "absolutely disgusting" editorial and said Sutton must resign immediately.
Democratic Representative Terri Sewell, who is black, said Sutton's language was not a joke, but a threat.
Kyle Whitmire, a political writer in Alabama, said he once worked at Sutton's paper and felt "sickened" by last week's editorial.
Article photo: BUYENLARGE VIA GETTY IMAGES Ku Klux Klan parade in DC in 1927
Tags
Who is online
102 visitors
Really? So they should kill a few more?
This guy is off his rocker. Needs to be put out to pasture.
Maybe the guy should be deported instead-----------to Saudi World.
Dear Friend Ender: I once met Goodloe Sutton at a President's Day white sale at J.C. Penney.
To date Mrs. E. and I never saw anyone buy such a volume of sheets at retail prices.
Why would a newspaper editor need that much bedding?
Thoughts?
Peace, Abundant Blessings and matching top and bottom fitted sheets.
Enoch.
I actually have one sheet out of a set, a top sheet only. The bottom fitted sheet is missing. I have to think on that.
See you in Tuscaloosa
The fitted sheet is for the modern day bigot. It can contour the right areas.
Although there are some that are staunch traditionalists.
Dear Friend Ender: You Sir, are on fire!
I am off to see the Grand Bagel.
He dwells in dah hoodie.
I want to know what constitutes "new business" at a Klan rally?
Enoch, Trying to Figure Out Who to Irrationally Hate Most on Hump Day.
Should we buy our sheets at Walmart or Target?
The fitted sheets are for the idiots. They are hard to walk with and get tangled around the feet.
Dear Friend Trout Giggles: LOL.
Good one!
E.
Roughly four thousand lynching deaths.
The University of Southern Mississippi and Auburn University have reacted quickly.
They only killed a few people and weren't violent until they needed to be...WTF.
He should be arrested and charged with inciting violence and terrorism.
He is actually calling for people to be murdered.
1958 North Carolina. The KKK was growing after the 1954 SCOTUS decision Brown vs Board of Education.
The Klan decided that it was time to teach those damn Indians a lesson...Big mistake on the part of the KKK.
They got the shit scared out of them.
This guy is the Sarah Jeong of Alabama. They both need to go.
You'll have to point out to me where Jeong wanted anyone hanged.
Also Jeong apologized for any harm her old tweets may have caused taken out of context.
Sutton doubled down on stupid.
because democrats aren't real Americans - they are socialist communists
smh
"I can understand how hurtful these posts are out of context"
So there is such a thing as proper context for calling for ethnic cleansing?
Dear Friend Rmando:
None at all.
Never ever.
P&AB.
Enoch.
The scum bag editor should be fired, arrested, and charged with inciting hate crimes!
Where is the outrage from Sutton's opinions?
1. Being expressed by the sane.
2. Quietly being agreed to by the insane.
Antebellum thought will die a long painful death. It will surely die, but it will never cease to exist. Racism is power.
One of trump's fine people.
Here is a better idea.... How about we ALL rise up and clean out the scum in D.C.! I can think of 541 legislators, one President, and 9 SCOTUS judges that don't represent Middle America and her territories--the largest segment of our Nations' population.
Now let me REALLY piss everyone off!
And that is just the beginning!!!!!
I actually agree with a lot of that. I would have to think about the senators being picked though.
One thing I would add is a law saying congress people cannot enact or write new laws giving themselves more and more power.
I love these two points.
And I pretty much agree with everything you said. I have reservations on the state legs choosing senators, tho
How about "One thing at a time"? Presenting a long "to-do list" is a great way to do... nothing.
Let's fixate. Let's concentrate on stopping calls for violence.
I kinda think that's more important than: "ALL members of Congress, the SCOTUS, and the Presidency will receive only Social Security as a pension plan."
That would be a great start, Bob!
Maybe you don't try to live off SSI so it isn't that important to you, however there are literally MILLIONS of Americans that have only that as an income. They might think it a bigger issue 5han the rest of them as 5hey eat their pittance of a meal today.
Ummm................ What does that have to do with your "MILLIONS of Americans"?
I know you are smart enough to figure out that as long as it is in their best interest, Government has no problem making sure it is well-funded and lucrative. Just look at their wage and compare it to the minimum wage. If their pay rate was tied to the minimum wage, you wouldn't have to beg for increases.
No Bob, if we're going to dream, we may as well dream big:)
But in the real world you are correct.
Perhaps... but it's my experience that "interpreting" someone else's words often leads to misunderstanding. So, please, be explicit. Thanks.
Quite simple Bob; if Congresses wages were directly tied to the minimum wage, in order to increase their own income they would be forced to increase the minimum wage. Now you know they aren't in the business of voting themselves decreases in their salaries, so in order to get an increase in pay to keep up with inflation, millions of minimum wage earners would also get a bump in pay at the same time. No more lagging of years or decades between hikes in the minimum wage. Practically every year there would be an increase. That's how it was until Obama enacted an Executive Order freezing their pay in 2011.
True. I still do not see any relevance to the post I questioned .
"There are none so blind as those who will will not see" --John Heywood
There you are, rising from the ashes and still making sense
That is surprising, isn't it?
Only to you. To the rest, I usually make sense simply because their beliefs are founded in logic and facts; not emotions and Party loyalty.
Alabama newspaper editor calls on KKK to lynch Democrats
Seem to be attempting to expand their hate base, used to be just (I will modify the original so as not to offend anyone's sensibilities) Catholics, Black and Jewish folks that irked them, casting a larger net these days, lot more folks to hate I suppose.
Imbeciles.