Not Really Fake News

Goodloe Sutton, editor of the weekly Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Arkansas (60 miles west of Selma, population 2,123) has made national news resulting from his editorial calling for the Ku Klux Klan to ride again. He advocates lynching Democrats – ironic considering his paper’s name.

Reveling in the attention, Sutton is doubling down, “… It’s not calling for the lynchings of Americans. These are socialist-communists we’re talking about. Do you know what socialism and communism is?”

The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Communication reacted by removing him from their Hall of Fame. The quality of his writing makes one wonder how Goodloe Sutton got into the Hall of Fame in the first place.






News From My Alma Mater

deady_0The University of Oregon has many prominent alums: Steve Prefontaine, Ann Curry, Phil Knight, Ken Kesey, and me. A driving force behind the founding of the University of Oregon in 1876 was Matthew Deady. He served as the university’s president for its first twenty years. The first building at the U of O was named in his honor and is still in use today. Deady’s other accomplishments include serving as president of the convention to draft Oregon’s first constitution and he was named Oregon’s first district court judge after statehood. Deady also was a staunch defender of slavery and a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan. Oops.

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