Alabama Publisher Who Called For KKK To 'Ride Again' Is Replaced By Black Woman

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The new publisher and editor of The Democrat-Reporter, Elecia R. Dexter, took the reins on Thursday, after Goodloe Sutton doubled down on his incendiary comments.

She told the Post that she had been working at the paper for about six weeks as a front office clerk when the editorial was published. She said she felt disappointed and talked to Sutton about it. "[He] took a group that has a lot of negativity associated to it, especially for people like me, of color," Dexter said, according to the Post ."There are different ways to communicate you wanted Washington to be cleaned up without using that particular reference.

"Over the past 10 years, she has been a strategic leader with expertise in human resources, operations and change management," the paper said. Dexter told NPR in an email that Sutton remains the owner of the paper. Alabama lawmakers celebrated the change in editorial leadership. "His dangerous views do not represent Alabama or the small-town papers in Alabama that do great work every day," Sen. Doug Jones, a Democrat, .

 

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Man if he don’t shut up he stepped down and someone took his place go retire stop wit the crying u actin like u 2 or sumthin

Cool

stepped down?

Bullshit. He still owns the paper, and there's no way he's given up control of it. This is a face-saving measure only.

Happy Black History Month :)

Bahahahshaha

Steve Bennett

Can someone dig a hole and push him in? Call it inertia.

I'm so sick of this story; 'a black woman'... she isn't furniture, print her name. Elecia R. Dexter.

Bet her first article is about how she thinks white men are the devil.

Seriously. What the fuck is going on in this country?

Are the Democrats still doing that KKK thing? I though they gave up the KKK in the 90's?

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