ATTEMPTS by the racist right to gain a foothold in electoral politics are not confined to Europe.
David Duke, unte recently a leader of the neo-nazi Ku Klux Klan (KKK), ran as an independent Republican candidate in elections for the Gover. nor of Louisiana. Duke lost to the Democrat, but nonetheless picked Black and civil rights groups fear that his brand of racist politics is not confined to the Louisiana backwoods, and could run rampant through many US states. There is even speculation that despite losing the election. Duke might run against George Bush in next year's Presidential race.
Though Duke has disowned his lascist past, claiming that it was a youthful indiscretion. the far right remain close.
Duke's campaign office was next door to the HQ of the National As sociation for the Advancement of White People", once run by Duke. Hes. claims that the NAAWP is a 'civil Pace 2 23, 1931 No.12 rights organisation.
But as recently as the mid-1980s. David Duke said "Jews probably deserve to go into the ash bin of history. while his speeches are larded with disparaging. racist remarks against (black) wellare claimants.
Duke's violent nazipast led to him being disowned as a candidate by President George Bush, despite the tact that hewas the only Republican on the list.
But the fact that many of the ideas he preaches - opposition to postive action for black people ano unemployment benefit - have been espoused by Bush himsell, means that Duke was able to gain respectablity in many voters' eyes.
Anthony Lewis, a columnist for the New York Times, points out that Duke employs the same rhetoric ... used by President Bush and his people. It can be - and often is - a genteel code to evoke anti-black feelings."
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