County official in Kansas resigns over 'master race' remark
November 21, 2018
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A white county official in Kansas has resigned under pressure after saying at a meeting that he belongs to "the master race."
Louis Klemp said in the letter submitted Tuesday resigning his seat on the Leavenworth County Commission that the remark was "well-meaning" and "not racially motivated."
Klemp cited the master race — the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy — last week while responding to a presentation by a black official, Triveece Penelton.
Klemp was appointed to fill a Republican vacancy in the county just west of Kansas City. He said he was identifying...
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