There is no shortage of idiots and today's blog will tell you about two of them who stand for hatred and intolerance of those unlike them (white, conservative christian, straight, male). One is a publisher who wants the Ku Klux Klan to "ride again" and spread hatred, intolerance and violence against anyone who isn't a white, straight, right-wing christian. The other is the high schooler who donned a MAGA hat and was disrespectful to a Native American man in a Wash, DC festival. He claims he's been defamed and filed a lawsuit.
What the kid doesn't understand: Wearing a MAGA hat is the same as wearing a KKK hood. It represents hatred and intolerance.
Here are the stories from the News:
Editor of an Alabama newspaper is calling for the return
of the Ku Klux Klan's infamous night rides
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| Democrat-Reporter newspaper ran a Feb. 14 editorial" |
(CNN)An editorial written in support of the Ku Klux Klan. That's something you might expect to see in 1919. Believe it or not, you can see it in 2019, too. The editor and publisher of a small-town newspaper in Alabama wrote one just last week.
The editorial, with the shock headline "The Klan Needs to Ride Again," appeared in the February 14 edition of The Democrat-Reporter in Linden, Alabama. "Time
for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again," begins the editorial,
written by Goodloe Sutton. "Democrats in the Republican Party and
Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama."
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He told the Montgomery Advertiser
he urged the white supremacist group to "clean out D.C." via lynchings.
"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all
of them," Sutton told the newspaper. He stressed that he wasn't calling for the hangings of all Americans, just the "socialist-communists.""Seem like the Klan would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there," Sutton wrote in the editorial.
Beginning
in the late 19th century, Klan members used night rides to terrorize
blacks and their white allies with violence, including lynchings and
firebombings.
The University of Southern Mississippi's School of Communication said Tuesday
it has removed Sutton, an alumnus, from its Mass Communication and
Journalism Hall of Fame "in light of Mr. Sutton's recent and continued
history of racist remarks."The
school added that it "strongly condemns Mr. Sutton's remarks as they are
antithetical to all that we value as scholars of journalism, the media,
and human communication."
Auburn
University's Journalism Advisory Council also stripped Sutton of its
2009 distinguished community journalism award following a Tuesday vote.
Alabama
Secretary of State John H. Merrill said, "This type behavior is not
acceptable and whenever it is introduced, it should be identified and
rejected."
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AND THERE'S ANOTHER...
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Kentucky Student files lawsuit against the Washington Post
A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the
Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely
accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native
American activist in a January videotaped incident at the Lincoln Memorial.
New York (CNN Business)Attorneys
for a Kentucky high school student who was at the center of a viral
video controversy are suing the Washington Post, seeking $250 million in
damages.
The law firm Hemmer DeFrank Wessels on Tuesday wrote a post on
its website that said attorneys Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry have filed
the lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann against the newspaper for
"compensatory and punitive damages." "This is only the beginning," the law firm said.
Sandmann,
a student at Covington Catholic High School, was in Washington on
January 18 for the annual March for Life rally wearing a red Make
American Great Again hat. In a video that gained national attention, he
was in an encounter with Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips, who was
playing a drum and chanting at the Indigenous Peoples March at the
Lincoln Memorial on the same day.
