By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
November 16
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/11/16/a-tenn-jail-official-called-the-kkk-more-american-than-obama-now-hes-out-of-a-job/?utm_term=.9808f05e6c55David Barber kept his Facebook profile set to private, but anyone who was friends with him could see the very public nature of his job — right next to the racist posts that made him lose it.
Barber, deputy director of the Shelby County Corrections Center in Memphis for the past 17 years, resigned amid a growing controversy over the posts.
One featured a picture of President Obama next to a man in a Ku Klux Klan mask and said “The KKK is more American than the illegal president.”
Another post, according to the Memphis Flyer, is about the Obama family claiming they had been discriminated against because they’re black. According to the newspaper, Barber commented, “Arrest convict hang and confiscate all assets.”
The posts were shared from the page of a group called “the Free Patriot,” which posts conservative-tinged news stories.
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