An Alabama newspaper editor said the country would be “better off” if the Ku Klux Klan returned and lynched Democrats in Washington, D.C.
“Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” against “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama,” Goodloe Sutton wrote in a Feb. 14 editorial in the Democrat-Reporter newspaper.
Sutton confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser he wrote the editorial calling for the revival of the white supremacist group.
“If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., 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.”
Sutton defended his comments, arguing that he was not calling for the lynching of Americans because “these are socialist-communists we’re talking about,” and compared the KKK to the NAACP, a civil rights 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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