Who's ready for another edition of "This Week in Oklahoma Racism?"
Over the weekend, Colbert, Oklahoma's interim police chief – Bart Alsbrook – resigned after Texoma's KXII revealed he was the owner of an online business that sold neo-Nazi music, memorabilia and other racist stocking stuffers over the Internet.
When you consider that Colbert is located in Bryan county – the home to Oklahoma's most-egregious Confederate monument, and the same place where racists rolled out of the trailer park with Confederate flags to to greet President Obama – the news, sadly enough, isn't very surprising.
Here are the details via KXII:
There are questions surrounding the background of a newly appointed Texoma police chief after we found his name linked to websites that sell media and memorabilia aimed at skinheads and white nationalists.
Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a hate mapfollowing the events in Charlottesville, Virginia.
That map identified only one group operating in Texoma - ISD Records, a website that sells racist media and memorabilia aimed at skinheads and white nationalists.
With a banner that reads "The Voice of Blood and Honour," an international coalition of racist skinhead gangs, ISD Records features artists like The Klansmen and album titles including "'Hitler was Right'".
We tracked down the certificate of ownership of ISD Records filed at the Grayson County Courthouse in 2004 with the signature of a Bart Alsbrook at a Denison address.
Colbert reserve police officer Bart Alsbrook was named interim chief this week.
We called Alsbrook about that application last week. He denied he was the Bart Alsbrook behind isdrecords.com.
We searched for another Bart Alsbrook and couldn't find another person with that name in the United States.
The site was taken offline within hours of that conversation.