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Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…

Forgiveness, Redemption, Conversion, Faith…

President Donald Trump loves his country…America…and he loves the American people; he is loyal to his country and its people.

“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13

Loyalty is more than words; true loyalty will result in actions. Action is what President Trump is giving to ‘We the People,’…he lives, loves and breathes loyalty.

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…

“And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

My fellow Americans, nothing is more important to the American people, and to the people of the world at large… than the success of the Nuclear Peace Summit between our spiritually touched God-sent President Donald J. Trump and the Honorable Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. The most important topic on Earth today in the nuclear age: World Peace.

God has blessed his chosen people, we the people of America… his chosen country with a spiritually touched, God-sent leader President Donald J. Trump, who has established a relationship of mutual respect… and mutual tolerance, with the Honorable Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Also, he has established such a (the same) relationship with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Hopefully and prayerfully, in order to try and bring Nuclear Peace to the world. However, the corrupt, rigged system has declared unconditional, no holds barred, take no prisoners, war against President Trump, with a mandate to stop and destroy President Trump, to stop and destroy his beloved family, to stop and destroy his staff, his advisors and to stop and destroy his presidency and his administration.

The most important topic on earth is world peace, President Trump represents the American people and their voice for THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPIC ON EARTH; Peace! Yet, the representatives of the American people and their voice for the most important topic on earth-Peace- is being undermined and stripped of all honor, integrity and reliability by the phenomenal, remarkable, corrupt, rigged system. which are all lies, distortions of truths and purple propaganda.

The Call & Post is reprinting of August 9, 2017 and August 16, 2017, to share with you the revelation of the spirits prognostications and predictions then to what is currently happening now.

REPRINT AUGUST 9, 2017

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…

Forgiveness, Redemption, Conversion, Faith…

President Donald Trump loves his country…America…and he loves the American people; he is loyal to his country and its people.

“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13

Loyalty is more than words; true loyalty will result in actions. Action is what President Trump is giving to ‘We the People,’…he lives, loves and breathes loyalty.

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…

“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and cannot sleep forever.” President Thomas Jefferson

America’s Dishonest Shame: contradicts and violates the founding organic principles; Liberty, Justice, Freedom Equality and Peace.

“A new nation under God conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

America does not practice what it preaches!!!

Alabama’s Honest Shame: Contradicts and violates the founding principles of America, Liberty, Freedom, Justice, Equality and Peace…the God-given inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, honestly, openly and legally being betrayed by Alabama’s law.

Alabama practices what it preaches!!!

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday and Today: White supremacy by law exists in Alabama. Our spiritually touched President Donald J. Trump offers Alabama, through his appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, the heavenly opportunity to lead by divine interposition the repeal and replacement of that law nationally, by law and become America’s hero and pride of liberty for tomorrow.

Heretofore, the corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system’s establishment form of government only offered ‘We the People,’ the choice of one of the corrupt system’s presidential nominees to become President of the United States of America.

All that ‘We the People,’ had was the opportunity to select one of the corrupt system’s two candidates / nominees, whom they felt would better serve them under the corrupt system’s establishment form of government. A corrupt system that would govern under the false pretext of Democracy…their law and order…the corrupt rigged system, which makes wrong right and right wrong. The corrupt, rigged system that considers the white woman inferior and owned property, under the false pretense, that she is too good to be involved with the sullied practices of politics. A corrupt, rigged system that considers the white poor inferior.

Then, out of the clear blue sky comes the divine spiritually touched interposition of Donald J. Trump, who created a storm of liberty that caused great consternation and calamity to the corrupt, rigged system by promoting truth, and eternal law to the land.

A ‘November to Remember’ election that shocked the world and revealed God’s plan…of the man, the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President… A spiritual man devoted to the founding principles of Liberty, Justice, Freedom, Equality and Peace.

“Know ye the truth and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32

President Trump is a genuine leader. He is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. He is the voice of the WILL of ‘We the People’s,’ rejection and dissatisfaction with the government. The WILL of “We the People’, is crying out for change and replacement of such government; The crooked, evil, corrupt, rigged and racist system of power and control established form of government.

President Trump’s fearless and courageous leadership has undertaken the task to fight for that change in government on behalf of ‘We the People,’ and to take power away from Washington D.C. and give the power back to ‘We the People,’ to Make America Great Again!

It was established by the author of Legal White Supremacy by Law, John B. Knox, Esq., that in a change of government, the poor white people change nothing beyond the change of their masters, which is the corrupt system’s establishment. In his creation and implementation of unjust laws as a Legal Law which ‘We the People,’ are governed and must abide by, he ingeniously put the white woman and the poor white people in the same categories of economic exploitation and disenfranchisement that he had put the Black race…except for chattel slavery.

Smoothly and ingeniously manipulating deceitful language and propaganda, the corrupt system is blaming the Black people as the cause of the poor white people’s ills and sufferings. The corrupt system’s taught hatred of Black people over shadowed the misguided mindset of the white woman and the poor white people.

The overall prejudice, ignorance and illiteracy that beset the mindset of the poor white people blinded them to the fact that they were victims of the corrupt, rigged system’s establishment also, and as such, they became the victimizers of themselves in attitudes, beliefs and human behavior, becoming the forgotten people. In the context of white pride, white privilege and white superiority over black inferiority; supported by ‘unjust laws,’ made to be ‘just’ laws by customs and tradition and upheld legally by the courts, the ‘unjust’ laws became ‘just’ laws, which guided and directed law enforcement.

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral laws or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law, to put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas, “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.” “Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.” “It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.”

The great state of Alabama’s Constitution of 1901 legally personifies White Supremacy by law. It openly illustrates and demonstrates that White Supremacy is the law of the state of Alabama, and that view still exists – that white males are superior to inferior white female, superior to inferior poor white people and superior to inferior Blacks / people of color; according to the Constitutional law of White Supremacy in the state of Alabama.

The corrupt system, the establishment, is the enemy of America…not President Donald J. Trump who is the voice of ‘We the People.’

‘We are going to create a whole new system and we will take this system apart.” “I want to make America great again.” America First!’

Nothing is more important to the American people than the creation of a whole new system and no issue, of importance, supersedes this critical need…..

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…

Now, Trump’s presidential promise and commitment to create a whole new system is threatening the very core of this evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system’s existence; striking right at the heart of the evil, corrupt, rigged system’s hypocrisy and double standard policies. Hitting the evil, duplicitous, sinister white supremacy and control, sexist (white woman/ gender barrier), and racist (color barrier), right on the head; causing the expansion of the Russian collusion and election interference claim, the investigations which are going into its second year, without a shred of evidence being put forth to the American people to substantiate the false charges, allegations and accusations of the corrupt system’s remarkable propaganda and political indictment agenda.

Now, the shrewd, corrupt and rigged system cunningly recognizes, as Carlyle had stated, “That no lie can live forever,” and has mounted a Grand Jury avenue of investigations…it has been said by some of the most brilliant legal minds, that a Grand Jury is a rubber stamp for an excellent investigator with the expert manipulation of deceitful language and oratorical persuasive instructions of the law to those comprising the Grand Jury, a good prosecutor and investigator can ascertain whatever recommendation he wants the Grand Jury to make. Distinguished attorney Charles Lomax often mused, “A Grand Jury can indict a ham sandwich.”

The evil, corrupt and rigged system is utilizing every diabolical, devious and sinister scheme at its disposal, to stop, discredit and character assassinate President Trump’s reputation and destroy his presidency including using vitriolic agitation in order to promote an inflammatory and incendiary climate to stop the will of ‘We the People’s,’ revolutionary movement of rejection and replacement of the systems’ establishment form of government under the dynamic and patriotic leadership of President Donald J. Trump.

‘We the People,’ the American people are truly blessed by God to have an honest and patriotic leader like Donald J. Trump, with our prayers that he stays strong in the faith of God. A fearless and courageous president who cannot be controlled…who cannot be bought…who cannot be bribed, intimidated or coerced, to lead us in our revolutionary struggle for Liberty, Justice, Equality, Freedom and Peace for all American people.

However, the corrupt and rigged system is relentless in its campaign to stop and destroy President Trump. Failing to get the desired result from the Russian collusion and election interference campaign, the corrupt, rigged system is now mounting an impeachment campaign, using double standard political misinformation to create and promote anti-Trump propaganda that Trump is dishonest and unfit to be president…that Trump is incompetent in Foreign Affairs…and that Trump cannot be trusted; all to deceitfully color and paint public opinion with lies, falsehoods, distortions of the truth and bigoted information in order to create a climate or atmosphere of doubt and distrust among the people and undermine the Trump Administration. Therein hoping to shape public opinion against the president, which is conducive to scandal fuel impeachment.

Acceptable to the will of ‘We the People’

‘We the People,’ governed by the consent of the governed, cannot afford to let this evil and treasonous talk and action to proceed. We must be ever vigilant in our struggle for our Liberty and we cannot afford to let ourselves be misled. We must never forget our brave, courageous and bold President Donald J. Trump, who is unwaveringly committed to helping us, ‘We the People,’ to reclaim our government and our liberty and Make America Great Again. America First!

‘We the People,’ with our dedicated and unwavering loyalty, must support our dynamic God-sent President Donald J. Trump and by supporting him…we are only supporting ourselves and the essential founding principles of Liberty.

We must be ever vigilant, my fellow Americans, and we must always keep in mind that the evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system refuses to accept any change in current law, election, voter rights, equality…politically, economically, religiously, morally and socially, that is ‘contrary’ to the systems’ control, its mandates, beliefs and doctrines of white male supremacy and control, making right wrong and wrong right.

Amazingly and ingeniously, it does so by law, which gives it (the evil system) the power of law enforcement, law and order…or die without any kind of consideration for the welfare and the common good of ‘We the People,’ for what is right or what is needed for the benefit of ‘We the People,’ the American people.

Only the will of ‘We the People,’ wanted Donald Trump to be elected president and thankfully our prayers were answered through the will of God.

Working together works…By working together “WE SHALL OVERCOME”

AMERICA FIRST…President Trump wants to make America great again. America, We the People’ let us join together and help him to do JUST THAT…MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

WHAT TIME IS IT??? TRUMP TIME!!!

May the blessings of St. Francis be upon our president:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

Almighty God, we Americans humbly pray to you to bless us with a peaceful transition of government and that nobody gets hurt in the process. Heavenly Father, please bless us with the guidance, the direction and the ways and means in which we, as Americans, can unite and become ONE AMERICA…touching the heart of President Donald J. Trump and enabling him to fulfill his promise and commitment to be President to ALL THE PEOPLE, while Making America Great Again. I ask and pray in the name of Jesus Christ, My Lord and Savior….Amen! Don King

God Bless America

God Bless the American People

God Bless President Donald J. Trump

God Bless our Military, men and women the Vanguard of our Nation

God Bless our Veterans

God Bless the Fallen but not Forgotten Heroes

1 Corinthians 16:13 “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”

Only in America

Don King

REPRINT August 16, 2017

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…

Forgiveness, Redemption, Conversion, Faith…

President Donald Trump loves his country…America…and he loves the American people; he is loyal to his country and its people.

“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13

Loyalty is more than words; true loyalty will result in actions. Action is what President Trump is giving to ‘We the People,’…he lives, loves and breathes loyalty.

Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…

“Know ye the truth and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32

The evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system of White Supremacy and control which ‘We the People,” are governed by, is the enemy of America…not President Donald J. Trump.

My heart and prayers go out to all the victims and the families who were affected by the uncalled for hate and violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017. The tragic hate filled and horrifying assembly of White Supremacists, KKK members, White Nationalist and the Neo Nazis , etc. is both saddening and heartbreaking, but should be of no surprise as this is the work of the evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system of male White Supremacy and control (the establishment). I thank God Almighty that there were not more casualties or injuries. The hatred and violence must end.

President Trump was highly and harshly criticized for not speaking up and condemning the hate groups of White Supremacy, the critics seem to forget that President Trump is a visionary who stated over a year ago, if elected:

‘We are going to create a whole new system and we will take this system apart.” “I want to make America great again.” America First!’

We will create a whole new system which means getting rid of the old evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system inclusive of getting rid of all the hate groups and violators of Liberty contradicting our founding principles: Liberty, Justice, Equality, Freedom and Peace. Then being president to all of the American people, to secure and protect ‘We the People’s,’ rights, protected by eternal law.

“The laws of nature are the laws of God; whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.” George Mason, one of the Founding Fathers

We must never forget…Hitler put into law: Jew Codes, giving the Nazis a license to kill Jews with impunity. American legislators put into law Black Codes, giving white people the right to kill black people with impunity. The Union of South Africa put into law Apartheid, giving white people the right to kill Black people, indiscriminately, with impunity. Spiritually touched Donald J. Trump, the voice of the people, now the 45th President of the United States of America is the catalyst, the lightening rod who is calling out all of the sinful codes of the darkness and bringing them into the righteous light of truth.

President Trump is fighting the evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system on behalf of the will of ‘We the People.’ The evil corrupt system that considers the white woman inferior and owned property…an evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system that considers the entire Black race inferior and owned property. An evil, corrupt system that considers poor white people inferior. A corrupt rigged system that makes right wrong and wrong right. A corrupt rigged system that places the white woman and poor white people along with the Black race in the same group of inferiority and economic exploitation, with unjust laws and unjust treatment with legal justification for such unjust treatment.

President Trump says: “Ask yourself; does that make man’s inhumanity to mankind alright? Because, the law says you can do it? It’s legal!!!”

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was right:

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

William Cullen Bryant was right: “Truth crushed to the earth will rise again.”

Thomas Carlyle was also right: “No lie can live forever.”

The spiritually touched President Trump is leading the way…illustrating and demonstrating to ‘We the People,’ showing us the irony of the gender barrier, the white woman and the duplicitous prejudice treatment of the poor white people way of life and the color barrier, the Black people way of life, ingeniously put together for the corrupt, rigged establishment’s economic exploitation and control of them. The irony is the masses don’t realize the depth and toll it takes upon their lives and their families’ lives. They don’t have a clue as to the inconceivable loss, the heart wrenching sacrifices made in their daily lives, the insurmountable burdens that they have to bear for the privilege of experiencing the white superiority privilege while starving to death.

Thus, the ploy begins, hate the black man, he’s the cause of your problems. “My babies are hungry, but I don’t have the money to buy food to feed them…but I’m better than the black man…my wife is sick, I can’t afford a doctor…but I’m better than the black man. Then the evil, corrupt rigged system using lies, prejudice, bigotry, discrimination, distorted truths and false promises controls the hate filled white mindset and behavior and the corrupt systems’ establishment controls the economic circumstances and environment which perpetuates the systems’ way of life.

‘We are going to create a whole new system and we will take this system apart.” “I want to make America great again.” America First!’

It is unimaginable how devastatingly threatening President Trump’s promise and commitment to the American people to create a whole new system, must be as a replacement to the current evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist systems’ economic benefit and control. However, that my fellow Americans, is the reason why this evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system will go to any lengths to stop the will of ‘We the People’s,’ Movement for change and replacement of the system lead by our dynamic President Donald J. Trump. No matter what the cost, by any means necessary, no matter how dangerous, the system says Trump must be stopped. A miraculous system which was remarkably created for White Supremacy and control to serve its purpose and that has enjoyed a four hundred year successful run. Unfortunately, a system that if continued in the nuclear age, will lead to our total destruction. The corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system of White Supremacy and control threatens our whole human existence on the planet earth.

There is no winner in a nuclear exchange…WAR…

As our late, great visionary President John F. Kennedy said: “I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age where great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age where a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.”

“…above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy -- or of a collective death-wish for the world.”

“There is no winner in a nuclear exchange” President Trump’s ingenious program of getting to know you, up close and personal with other world leaders is a blessed Art of the Deal for world peace…Inviting them to dinner conversations and accommodations…rather than threats, devastation and destruction.

Please Heavenly Father, bless our shepherd President Trump with the wisdom and understanding to see through this veiled cloak of deception, the corrupt system’s devious instigating roll of provocateur in order to manipulate him through public opinion. Bless him with the wisdom to recognize, realize and appreciate the system’s sinister plot to agitate him through purple propaganda, by the bias, one-sided, double standard media’s serpentine tongue to talk him into having a hostile confrontation with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.

Question: While we are supported by and supporting of our allies, is it not ignoble to expect that North Korea’s allies are doing the same in supporting Kim Jong Un and his regime in the same manner, with the same passion that we show to our allies and vise versa?

President Trump has promised the change and replacement of the evil, corrupt system in order to prevent this destruction from occurring.

‘We are going to create a whole new system and we will take this system apart.” “I want to make America great again.” America First!’

However, ‘We the People,’ must be loyal to our country first, by standing by Trump and standing up with, our spiritually touched President Donald J. Trump’s dynamic leadership in supporting his indomitable courage and his invincible spirit in taking on this evil and extremely powerful corrupt system. And, with the support of the will of ‘We the People,’ and the will of the Lord, we shall overcome.

President Trump wants to clean out the swamp which means establishing term limits for all of the elected government officials, just as Congress and the Senate did in establishing two term limits for the presidency. Elected politicians who marry the government, then govern from the grave by attitudes, behavior, customs, traditions and party loyalty, but don’t govern by WILL of ‘We The People,’ for the common good of today and not govern for common good of 100 years ago, and instead of teaching hate, teach love for a better America.

“The power of the constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing: and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can and undoubtedly will be RECALLED” PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON

May the blessings of St. Francis be upon our president:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

Almighty God, we Americans humbly pray to you to bless us with a peaceful transition of government and that nobody gets hurt in the process. Heavenly Father, please bless us with the guidance, the direction and the ways and means in which we, as Americans, can unite and become ONE AMERICA…touching the heart of President Donald J. Trump and enabling him to fulfill his promise and commitment to be President to ALL THE PEOPLE, while Making America Great Again. I ask and pray in the name of Jesus Christ, My Lord and Savior….Amen! Don King

God Bless America

God Bless the American People

God Bless President Donald J. Trump

God Bless our Military, men and women the Vanguard of our Nation

God Bless our Veterans

God Bless the Fallen but not Forgotten Heroes

1 Corinthians 16:13 “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”

Then, to share with you and illustrate and demonstrate how deeply ingrained the corrupt system is into the psyche of white America, a New York Times article of February 19, 2019.

An Alabama Editor Urges the K.K.K. to ‘Ride Again,’ and His Small Town Winces

Goodloe Sutton, the publisher and editor of The Democrat-Reporter in Linden, Ala., in 2015.CreditAlvin Benn/Montgomery Advertiser

Goodloe Sutton, the publisher and editor of The Democrat-Reporter in Linden, Ala., in 2015.CreditCreditAlvin Benn/Montgomery Advertiser

By Richard Fausset and Niraj Chokshi

• Feb. 19, 2019

LINDEN, Ala. — The editorial in The Democrat-Reporter, the newspaper that has served the small western Alabama town of Linden since 1879, appeared on Page 2 last Thursday, but it read as though it could have been written the year the paper was founded.

“Time for the Ku Klux Klan to ride again,” it began.

The unsigned opinion piece, railing against “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats” and calling for the return of the most infamous white supremacist group in the nation’s history, went largely unnoticed until Monday, when two student journalists shared photographs of it online.

By Tuesday it was national news, the subject of numerous reports illustrated with stock photos of hooded Klansmen, and the target of widespread condemnation. Representative Terri A. Sewell, a Democrat whose congressional district includes Linden, called on the editor and publisher of the paper, Goodloe Sutton, to apologize and step down.

“For the millions of people of color who have been terrorized by white supremacy, this kind of ‘editorializing’ about lynching is not a joke — it is a threat,” she wrote on Twitter. “These comments are deeply offensive and inappropriate, especially in 2019.”

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The reception was about the same in Linden, a struggling town of roughly 2,000 people — 59 percent white and 41 percent black — about 90 miles west of Montgomery. But it stung the community in specific ways. Residents said the editorial made their city seem a heinous place, when it is really more like a deeply flawed one.

“You can still be taken aback by some of the problems we still have,” said Timothy Thurman, the superintendent of the local public school system. Its student population is almost entirely black, he said; most white families in Linden prefer to home-school their children or send them to a private school founded in 1969 at the height of the state’s integration battles.Yet almost in the same breath, Dr. Thurman, who is black, spoke of friendly relations between the races in town. “Honestly,” he said, “everybody gets along.”

The editorial was also seen as further evidence of the inglorious fall of Mr. Sutton, 80, a fixture in the public life of Linden who inherited the paper from his father and was once widely hailed, along with his late wife, for exposing corruption in the local sheriff’s department.

In the editorial, which he has acknowledged writing, Mr. Sutton blamed Democrats for the United States’ involvement in both world wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, as well as the conflicts in the Middle East. And in an interview with The Montgomery Advertiser about the editorial, he went even further, suggesting that the Klan “go up there and clean out D.C.”

“We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them,” he told The Advertiser.

Efforts to reach Mr. Sutton for comment on Tuesday by telephone or in person were not successful.

The mayor of Linden, Charles Moore, received a reporter in his office early Tuesday morning. An angry woman, presumably from out of town, had just called him and asked, sardonically, when the city would be holding its next Klan meeting.

Mr. Moore, who is white, said he was disgusted by Mr. Sutton’s article, but not surprised that it had been published: “Oh no, not at all.”

The Democrat-Reporter earned a name far beyond Linden in the 1990s, when it ran a series of articles detailing rampant corruption in the Marengo County Sheriff’s Department, including theft and drug peddling. The sheriff at the time was popular, and the paper was flooded with threats and cancellations of ads and subscriptions.

Mr. Sutton’s wife, Jean Sutton, was the managing editor in those days. But she died of breast cancer in 2003, and the mayor said that changed something. “He lost his wife, and all the credibility went with her,” he said. “She was a very good investigative reporter, and also a real sweet person.”

Mr. Sutton began penning editorials that were racially insensitive and “very hurtful,” Mr. Moore said. An editorial in May 2015 stated that a local mayor had “displayed her African heritage by not enforcing civilized law” and referred repeatedly to black people as “thugs.”

And during the national debate over football players kneeling in protest of police brutality, the paper published an editorial titled “Let football boys kneel.”

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“That’s what black folks were taught to do two hundred years ago, kneel before a white man,” it read. “Is that it? Let them kneel!”

Last year, Mr. Moore said, a number of businesses downtown were so incensed by one article that they demanded that the paper remove its boxes from their property.

USA Today reported in 2015 that the paper had a circulation of 3,000, but these days it is not easy to find in Linden. There is a box in front of a closed-up building on Main Street, and another in front of the newspaper’s shed-size office on a side street.

At a gas station called Langley’s, they were not selling it, and a clerk there said, “I don’t know anybody who does.”

Jami Huckabee, 36, a waitress who worked for the paper as a teenager, said The Democrat-Reporter was mired in financial problems even then. Mr. Sutton, she said, “is just a bitter old man” who she thought was calculatedly dropping racist bombs in an effort to attract waning interest: “This is how he sells papers now, because everybody’s boycotted him for various reasons.”

The Feb. 14 issue contained eight pages, with unsigned news articles about art grant applications and a Methodist church’s Brunswick stew dinner. The page facing the editorial featured large photos of local African-American parents posing proudly with sons who had won football scholarships.

A full page was given over to legal notices, a financial lifeline for many small papers. There were ads for local apartments, a local cleaners, a cafe in nearby Demopolis, and the Omaha Steaks company.

A number of residents said that they never saw the paper any more, and had only heard about the editorial after seeing reports on social media. “Most people have dropped their subscriptions,” said Sarah Dailey, the librarian, who said the library does not carry copies either.

Myisha Taylor, 25, a library patron, said on Tuesday that she had not heard about the editorial. But Ms. Taylor, who is black, said she was hardly surprised that such sentiments persisted in Alabama. Linden, she said, “is mostly run by people like that — all of that’s still active, it’s just undercover.”

Other black residents strongly disagreed. “Living here is good, I cannot lie,” said Aleicia White, 51, a disabled former worker at a wood products company. “The people are friendly, and I live in an all-white neighborhood.”

Either way, residents said there had been no big resurgence in pro-Klan sentiment in the area.

Kenneth Barrineau, who heads the Heart of Marengo Chamber of Commerce, said he worried about the impact of the international bad press on a town where a job in a paper mill was often the best work to be had, and where no one had figured out how to lure back the children who go off to distant colleges.

“I would say this is not a story about Linden, Alabama,” he said. “This is a story about the local newspaper.”

At the Democrat-Reporter’s tiny office Tuesday, an African-American woman opened the door after a reporter knocked. She said no one could talk until Thursday, and added that she had no comment about the editorial.

Mr. Sutton was easier to find in city court records, which indicated that he had gone to court Aug. 23 to fight a charge of littering and had lost the case. He was fined $432.50.Wendy Lewis, the court clerk, said that a strong wind had caught hold of advertising inserts that were stacked outside the Democrat-Reporter’s offices and had blown them around.

“Oh, it was a mess,” she said. “It was all over town.”

Correction: Feb. 23, 2019

An earlier version of this article misstated the age of Goodloe Sutton, a longtime editor of The Democrat-Reporter. He is 80, not 70.

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