Alabama newspaper editor calls for return of KKK and lynching

[SummerMadness]

'Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again': An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

Goodloe Sutton [called] for mass lynchings and suggested that the Ku Klux Klan should return to “clean out” Washington, drawing strong rebukes from lawmakers and calls for an FBI investigation from the head of the Alabama NAACP.

“Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again,” began a Feb. 14 editorial in the Democrat-Reporter. It went on to claim that Democrats, along with some Republicans, were planning to raise taxes in Alabama. It concluded, “Seems like the Klan would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there.”

 

[Go Braves]

Sadly this doesn't shock me. Wish it did.

 

[Kenny'sID]

I don't understand, as far as I could tell from the article he wasn't targeting blacks, but instead: (from the OP's link:

When the Advertiser’s Melissa Brown asked him whether it was appropriate for a newspaper publisher to suggest that Americans should be lynched, Sutton replied, “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?”

But why bring the KKK in to target socialist-communists? How does this add up?

 

[joinfree]

'Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again': An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

History is cyclic?

 

[Helmut-WK]

'Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again': An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

The KKK and the Mafia (Sicilian Mob) have a similar origin: A privileged minority (White People in the former Confederate States, nobility in Sicily) tried to defend their status against the new laws about equality of rights issued from the state (the Union resp. the government of the Naples kingdom after it was conquered by Napoleon),
(Some typos corrected)

 

[KCfromNC]

I don't understand, as far as I could tell from the article he wasn't targeting blacks, but instead: (from the OP's link:

When the Advertiser’s Melissa Brown asked him whether it was appropriate for a newspaper publisher to suggest that Americans should be lynched, Sutton replied, “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?”

But why bring the KKK in to target socialist-communists? How does this add up?

One of the many false claims against MLK, jr by authorities at the time was that he was a communist agitator. Could be that some ideas never die.

 

[Helmut-WK]

It went on to claim that Democrats, along with some Republicans, were planning to raise taxes in Alabama. It concluded

I don't understand, as far as I could tell from the article he wasn't targeting blacks, but instead: (from the OP's link:

When the Advertiser’s Melissa Brown asked him whether it was appropriate for a newspaper publisher to suggest that Americans should be lynched, Sutton replied, “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 obviously doesn't know that under communism taxes were rather low (the state as owner of nearly everything had other means to get the ressources it needed). So with some simplification rising of taxes can be called the opposite of Communism.

 

[USincognito]

But but but racism and bigotry ended when Obama was elected!

 

[essentialsaltes]

I saw another article that showed that this was not the first time the author had been a tad controversial.

Alabama's working mighty hard at making Mississippi look good.

 

[TLK Valentine]

I don't understand, as far as I could tell from the article he wasn't targeting blacks, but instead: (from the OP's link:

When the Advertiser’s Melissa Brown asked him whether it was appropriate for a newspaper publisher to suggest that Americans should be lynched, Sutton replied, “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?”

But why bring the KKK in to target socialist-communists? How does this add up?

Clearly this sad little man sees the KKK as the only real Americans who can save the country...

Either that, or the Klan is falling on hard times and are hiring themselves out as rentathugs...

 

[variant]

But why bring the KKK in to target socialist-communists? How does this add up?

He's probably conflating the two groups (because they are both groups that he doesn't like).

 

[Kenny'sID]

He's probably conflating the two groups (because they are both groups that he doesn't like).

Maybe.

I'm still at a loss myself. lol

 

[TLK Valentine]

Maybe.

I'm still at a loss myself. lol

In the utterly forgettable Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the plot, such as it is, is kicked off when a little boy writes a letter to Superman asking him to end the nuclear arms race.

Bottom line: People always think their heroes can solve any problem.

 

[Helmut-WK]

One of the many false claims against MLK, jr by authorities at the time was that he was a communist agitator. Could be that some ideas never die.

I had to look up what MLK means, partly because as a German this acronym was new to me, partly because the idea is so absurd that I did not think in this direction.

But let us check out whether MLK was a communist:
[ ] Did he dream of a world revolution?
[ ] Did he preach hatred among different social groups to light it?
[ ] Did he advocate the use of violence if it served his goals?
[ ] Did he demonize fellows that began to disagree with him?
[ ] Did he want to take all "production sites" from their owners and give them to "the people"?
[ ] Did he base his teaching on Lenin, his predecessors (Marx, Engels, ...), and maybe other communist theoreticians (Stalin, Mao, ...)?

Apply this list to MLK and the KKK, and then look who gets more similarities to communism ...

 

[Kaon]

'Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again': An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

"They" are trying so hard to cause a race war...it's obvious the desperation at this point.

Although, some people are more than happy to help "them"; it is a consequence of generations of indulgence and ignorance, coupled with prejudiced gone unchallenged and unanswered.

But, I forgot since Obama was president, racism doesn't exist.

 

[essentialsaltes]

An African-American woman who was named publisher and editor of the Alabama newspaper that recently urged the Ku Klux Klan to "night ride again" has stepped down, citing what she said was continuous and damaging interference by the paper's owner.

Sutton, she said, sent out an altered version of the February 28 issue to various media outlets that included a prominent story defending his Klan editorial and attacking the Montgomery Advertiser reporter who interviewed him. Dexter said she had to put out a press release calling the issue a falsification created without her authorization.

Dexter, in a separate news release, also accused Sutton of interfering with Thursday's edition of the paper, saying it did not reflect her "views or thoughts." She said she was stepping down and that the paper was being sold.

Craziness.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I'm not crazy am I? It is 2019 and not 1819 right?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Helmut-WK]

I'm not crazy am I? It is 2019 and not 1819 right?

-CryptoLutheran

History sometimes goes in circles, maybe "1819" is ahead of us? At least this is what this Dexter wants.

Presumably encouraged by Trump's behavior and success?

 

[rambot]

I don't understand, as far as I could tell from the article he wasn't targeting blacks, but instead: (from the OP's link:

When the Advertiser’s Melissa Brown asked him whether it was appropriate for a newspaper publisher to suggest that Americans should be lynched, Sutton replied, “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?”

But why bring the KKK in to target socialist-communists? How does this add up?

Why do you give this guy that much credit?
Sorry to inform both if you, i guess, but americans can be socialists or communists if they want.
Not only that but, do I understand that it is the socialist communists that are up in the gated communities?

 

[Kaon]

I'm not crazy am I? It is 2019 and not 1819 right?

-CryptoLutheran

You may not be crazy from what I have seen on these forums (and by the colloquial meaning), but that is the problem.

You are logical, and what is going on right now is considered illogical.