Black editor resigns from racist Alabama newspaper over interference

Source: simonkr / Getty

New Black EIC Steps Down From Racist Alabama Newspaper

Some of you may remember the story we did last month about a Black woman, Elecia R. Dexter, who took over a racist newspaper in Alabama called Democrat-Reporter that was run by a raging bigot named Goodloe Sutton.

If a more racist name exists we damn sure haven’t heard it, but we digress.

Dexter has both a bachelor’s and a masters degree, but she wasn’t exactly a journalist. She had been working as a front desk clerk for six weeks when she complained to Sutton about an article he had written calling for the Ku Klux Klan to “ride again”. Immediately Sutton resigned from his position as editor-in-chief and essentially turned the family business over to Elecia. In hindsight, that appears to have been a part of Sutton’s plan to do further damage to Black people.

According to CNN, Elecia’s time as the HWIC at the Democrat-Reporter is coming to an end because she has officially resigned from her position after damaging interference from the aforementioned Goodloe.

Sutton, she said, sent out an altered version of the February 28 issue to various media outlets that included a prominent story defending his Klan editorial and attacking the Montgomery Advertiser reporter who interviewed him. Dexter said she had to put out a press release calling the issue a falsification created without her authorization.

Dexter, in a separate news release, also accused Sutton of interfering with Thursday’s edition of the paper, saying it did not reflect her “views or thoughts.” She said she was stepping down and that the paper was being sold.

“The decision to accept the role of Publisher/Editor of The Democrat Reporter was an honor and I have no regrets,” she wrote. “I am not discouraged, healing will come to the wonderful and loving people here.”

Sounds to us like ol’ Goodloe Sutton set a Black up to fail after being confronted for being a racist POS.