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

Goodloe Sutton, shown here at an awards ceremony in 1998, has turned over control of The Democrat-Reporter to Elecia Dexter.

The publisher of a small local newspaper in Alabama penned an editorial calling for the Ku Klux Klan to "ride again." After massive outcry, he's stepped down, and a black woman has taken the job.

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.

"If we could get. "We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them."

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