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. Elecia Dexter said she could no longer work the owner/publisher Goodloe Sutton and that she resigned "so that her integrity and well-being can be maintained."
Sutton was the guy who originally penned a staggering editorial with the headline "The Klan Needs to Ride Again" in the February 14 edition. Sutton's editorial sparked outrage around the country. "Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again," Sutton wrote. "Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama."
Sutton then fueled the controversy further, telling the Montgomery Advertiser that he urged the white supremacist group to "clean out D.C." via lynchings. "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton told the newspaper. He stressed that he wasn't calling for the hangings of all Americans, just the "socialist-communists." "Seem like the Klan would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there," Sutton wrote in the editorial.
In the wake of her resignation, Dexter said "The decision to accept the role of Publisher/Editor of The Democrat Reporter was an honor and I have no regrets, I am not discouraged, healing will come to the wonderful and loving people here."
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