GREELEY, Colo.—A local school board member and radio station owner has come under fire for airing an editorial denouncing the holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The broadcaster remains unrepentant and defiant in the wake of community outcry.
Brett Reese is airing the editorial four times daily—up from two times—on his station KELS-FM 104.7, and he is unapologetic that portions of the editorial that calls King a “plastic god,” a “sexual degenerate,” and “an America-hating communist” appear verbatim on a website with links to a white supremacist group.
The Greeley-Evans School District 6 passed a resolution denouncing the editorial, and the Mountain States Anti-Defamation League has asked Reese to stop broadcasting it.
