Jordan N. Gollub #racist sunherald.com

Jordan N. Gollub has qualified to run as a Republican. The only other candidate to qualify so far is incumbent Mayor A.M. “FoFo” Gilich[…]
If elected, Gollub said that he hopes to return the old Mississippi state flag with Confederate battle emblem to Biloxi through city proclamation, much as President Donald Trump has done with an executive order to end birthright citizenship

He also wants to rename Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard downtown because, he said, King was “no good” and not from Mississippi[…]
Gollub said he decided to run after two “big, young Black guys” on a private security team prevented him from taking a direct route to the post office[…]He said city police[…]should have been working the traffic detail and he believes that he might have been singled out because he is white

“I thought they were harassing me,” Gollub said. “It may or may not have been racially motivated”[…]
He ran twice for mayor of Poplarville, where he previously lived, but doesn’t remember the dates. In 1996 as an independent candidate for the House of Representatives, receiving about one-quarter of one percent[…]
Gollub, 66, was also an active Klansman in the 1980s, 90s and early 2000s, news accounts say. He doesn’t try to hide his past[…]He says that he no longer identifies as a klansman but supports some white supremacist beliefs[…]
“I don’t think America was ever meant to be a melting pot,” he told the Sun Herald. “I don’t think the answer is forced integration everywhere

“I am for separation of the races in most cases”

Gollub was raised Jewish in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he said, but converted to Christianity in college

Gollub said he worked from 1981-1984 as an associate editor of a klan newspaper under Bill Wilkinson, who had split with David Duke[…]Gollub said that he used the name John Bell Hood, a Confederate general, because his own last name sounded too ethnic

He was found out, anyway, and booted from the organization

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