The Alabama newspaper editor who called for the Ku Klux Klan to return and lynch Democrats in Washington, D.C., resigned Friday.
Goodloe Sutton told the Auburn Plainsman he was turning over operations to Elecia Dexter, an African-American woman.
“I can drink beer and chase women now. They can’t run too fast, or I can’t catch them,” he said.
Sutton is maintaining ownership of the paper, according to Dexter.
Sutton’s racist comments made headlines earlier this month when he wrote an editorial in the Democrat-Reporter newspaper about it being “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.”
“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 then defended his comments to the Montgomery Advertiser 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.”
