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Senator Doug Jones, Algerian, has called for the resignation of the editor of a small newspaper after publishing a column asking the Klan to come back.
(AP)
Senator Doug Jones, MP for Al-Ala, called on the editor of a small Alabama newspaper to resign Monday after publishing an editorial last week in which he was urging the Ku Klux Klan to "go down at night" and "clean the center".
Goodloe Sutton, editor and publisher of the newspaper Democrat-Reporter, which has 3,000 broadcasts, told The Montgomery Advertiser that he had written the February 14 column. The report says that he doubled the coin, and say"We are going to take out the hemp ropes, pass them over a large member and hang them all."
Jones called the editorial of the weekly "absolutely disgusting" and called Sutton to resign.
"I've seen what happens when we stay nearby while people, especially influential people, publish racist and hateful views, words matter, actions matter, resign now!" he tweeted. Representative Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Joined Jones to ask for Sutton's resignation.
"For the millions of people of color who have been terrorized by white supremacy, this kind of" editorialization "about lynching is not a joke, it's a threat," Sewell tweeted . "These comments are deeply offensive and inappropriate, particularly in 2019. Mr. Sutton should apologize and resign."
The editorial first appeared after a student from Auburn University posted a photo of the short article on Twitter, with the caption that said in part "wow."
The column, "Klan Must Go Up Again", calls Democrats and Republicans "plotting to raise taxes in Alabama". The publisher said that it was not a call to lynch the Americans. He said the column was intended for "socialist communists".
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The publisher then denied that the KKK is a racist organization and stated that "the Klan was not violent until they needed it".
"A violent organization? Well, they killed only a few people," he said.
Fox News e-mailed the newspaper early Tuesday morning and received no immediate response.
The report says that Sutton – who had been working for the newspaper since 1964 – is not worried about negative public reactions and welcomes a boycott, the report said.
The Alabama Press Association has stated in the register that she "does not share this view".
"However, the APA is not a police agency, we simply have no authority over what our member newspapers publish," the newspaper reported.
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