*Here we go with another proud racist and white supremacist who wants you to know where he’s coming from. His name is Goodloe Sutton and he’s the editor of a small town newspaper in Linden, Alabama.
Just last week Sutton, who called for extrajudicial killings of “socialist communists” after his history of racist and anti-Semitic editorials came to light, is not backing down. Nope, not an inch. In fact, he won’t apologize or even acknowledge that his call for violence advocated for the lynching of his fellow Americans.
“I don’t care what they say,” said Sutton, the editor of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper. “They have a right to say whatever they want. They’re not important to me.”
Sutton, who is also the publisher and owner of the newspaper in Marengo County, published an editorial last week calling for “the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” to clean up Washington D.C. from “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
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When asked to elaborate what he meant by “cleaning up D.C.,” the 80-year-old Sutton suggested lynching, saying “we’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.”
Though locals say Sutton’s offensive editorials were a known quantity in Marengo County for years, the public’s reaction to his Feb. 14 editorial and subsequent comments to the Advertiser were swift and widespread. Once a lauded newspaperman, nationally acclaimed in the 1990s for his and his wife’s work in bringing down a corrupt local sheriff, his peers in journalism stripped him of past commendations after his comments were published. State leaders resolutely condemned his comments and editorials, and local residents decried the way Sutton was representing his area to the outside world.
The newspaper box sitting outside the Linden newsroom on Thursday were filled with copies of a new Democrat-Reporter edition. On the front page, Sutton chose to run laudatory letters to the editor, purportedly from a former Marine, a tax preparer and a self-professed Klansman.
If you want, you can read/learn more at the Montgomery Advertiser.
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