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Alabama newspaper editorial wants 'Ku Klux Klan to night ride again' in order to 'clean out D.C.' | Daily Mail Online
The editor of a rural Alabama newspaper is facing calls to resign after he published an editorial wishing for ‘the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’ against ‘Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in America'.
Goodloe Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter in Linden wrote that he wanted the KKK to 'clean out D.C.' by 'lynching'.
‘If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off,’ Sutton wrote.
When asked to specify what he meant by ‘clean out D.C.,’ Sutton brought up lynching.
‘We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them,’ Sutton said.
Sutton confirmed writing the editorial that appeared in last Thursday's newspaper to the Montgomery Advertiser.
[...]
Sutton was asked if he agreed with the near-consensus view that the KKK was a racist and violent organization.
‘A violent organization? Well, they didn't kill but a few people,’ Sutton said.
‘The Klan wasn't violent until they needed to be.’
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The editor of a rural Alabama newspaper is facing calls to resign after he published an editorial wishing for ‘the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’ against ‘Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in America'.
Goodloe Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter in Linden wrote that he wanted the KKK to 'clean out D.C.' by 'lynching'.
‘If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off,’ Sutton wrote.
When asked to specify what he meant by ‘clean out D.C.,’ Sutton brought up lynching.
‘We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them,’ Sutton said.
Sutton confirmed writing the editorial that appeared in last Thursday's newspaper to the Montgomery Advertiser.
[...]
Sutton was asked if he agreed with the near-consensus view that the KKK was a racist and violent organization.
‘A violent organization? Well, they didn't kill but a few people,’ Sutton said.
‘The Klan wasn't violent until they needed to be.’
[...]
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