Ex-KKK leader David Duke announces Senate run for LA. seat

[NAC4EV]

BATON ROUGE — Former Ku Klux Klan wizard David Duke planned to emerge from a 17-year political hiatus here Friday to qualify for the U.S. Senate race in a state already roiling with racial tension.Duke, a Republican who served one term in the Louisiana House, hasn't run for office since 1999. He is running to fill the seat that will be vacated by Republican Sen. David Vitter.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/22/david-duke-senate-run/87437334/


“I’m proud to announce my candidacy for the United States Senate,” Duke said in a video. “I believe in equal rights for all and respect for all Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZRn4Y-ZkSo
However, what makes me different is I also demand respect for the rights and heritage of European Americans.”

 

[thraashman]

Well Republicans were willing to nominate Donald Trump for President, so we know that close and chummy associations with the KKK don't bother them.

 

[woolfe9998]

He won't get elected this time around, but he won a seat to the state legislature in the 1990's and as your article mentions, he has gotten vote totals exceeding 40%. Meaning he's gotten loads of mainstream conservatives voting for him. There's no other explanation. I assume he wasn't getting lots of dem voters or independents.

 

[glenn1]

I would normally offer a polite "good luck" to any candidate but can't do it in good conscience this time.

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

I’m proud to announce my candidacy for the United States Senate,” Duke said in a video. “I believe in equal rights for all and respect for all Americans."

"However, what makes me different is I also demand respect for the rights and heritage of European Americans."

Okay. Out of simple curiosity I do wonder what exactly his policies are.


His statements on Twitter seem to give the impression that he thinks that he can run as a fear-pushing racist and claim to respect everyone all at once.

Are Americans now ready to ask if this racial diversity is enriching or damaging our social fabric? #WakeUpAmerica

I wonder if and how he'll even address non-whites. Should be interesting to watch. If his campaign is like his rhetoric they'll take a back seat.

The basic culture of this country is #European and #Christian and if we lose that, we lose America. #AmericaFirst

I'm thinking the RNC just wants this all to end. I feel bad for them.

 

[Bitek]

He's running as a democrat right?

 

[compuwiz1]

He'll lose.

 

[NAC4EV]

He's running as a democrat right?

Read the article.
Try to figure it out for yourself.

 

[compuwiz1]

He's running as a democrat right?

Well he does need to stay true to the party that started it all AND the party that voted against abolition.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Meh, he'll never get elected.

 

[zinfamous]

Well he does need to stay true to the party that started it all AND the party that voted against abolition.

You and your relative history.

You guys, it's so precious.

 

[MrA79]

Well Republicans were willing to nominate Donald Trump for President, so we know that close and chummy associations with the KKK don't bother them.

You have to work your forearms a lot to bend the truth that far?

 

[Victorian Gray]

You have to work your forearms a lot to bend the truth that far?

GOP Shows White Supremacist’s Tweet During Trump’s Speech

http://time.com/4418591/republican-convention-white-supremacist-tweet/

 

[x26]

OMG!! Black Supremacist In Whitehouse and White Supremacist Running for Senate!!

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

GOP Shows White Supremacist’s Tweet During Trump’s Speech

http://time.com/4418591/republican-convention-white-supremacist-tweet/

While I'm feeling like the Trump has a suspicious relationship with racism and racists I feel that those tweets are entirely benign. I don't know how these events typically go but I imagine they're only screening for content as it's unreasonable to expect them to dig up everything on an account and deliver the tweets while they are still relevant.

I'm using the Internet! Yeah!

 

[zinfamous]

OMG!! Black Supremacist In Whitehouse and White Supremacist Running for Senate!!

yep.

explains the conservative fear and irrational paranoia of the last decade that has fueled the totality of the tea party and the rise of Trump (whose "new voters" are white supremacists that only now feel that someone is finally speaking for them).

Only few like this brave soul admit it, but all of us know this is what the rest of you believe in your hearts.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Funny last time he ran for something and I think one of his ideas was to pay low income women to get the deporvara( ?) birth control shot, maybe it was the implantable type I forgot. A black guy who grew up in Dorchester that I worked with said he'd vote for him.

Honestly its a decent idea, pay people who have minimal needs not to have children. Guess it shows even a bigoted moron can have a good idea.

 

[zinfamous]

Funny last time he ran for something and I think one of his ideas was to pay low income women to get the deporvara( ?) birth control shot, maybe it was the implantable type I forgot. A black guy who grew up in Dorchester that I worked with said he'd vote for him.

Honestly its a decent idea, pay people who have minimal needs not to have children. Guess it shows even a bigoted moron can have a good idea.

whether voluntary or forced, organized sterilization programs is an unethical, immoral enterprise that smacks of eugenics-inspired fascism.

This was a fashionable idea from the 20s-40s when the field of genetics was in a very nascent understanding of inheritance (a time before we even knew the structure of DNA) and was happily adopted by the Nazis as a wonderful means to forward their goal of universal Aryan supremacy.

 

[ivwshane]

Vote trump! Make racism ok again!

That should be the RNC's new motto, it's already their platform.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

whether voluntary or forced, organized sterilization programs is an unethical, immoral enterprise that smacks of eugenics-inspired fascism.

This was a fashionable idea from the 20s-40s when the field of genetics was in a very nascent understanding of inheritance (a time before we even knew the structure of DNA) and was happily adopted by the Nazis as a wonderful means to forward their goal of universal Aryan supremacy.

Zin we're talking birth control not sterilization but I think my younger self had a similar conversation with the guy

 

[Victorian Gray]

While I'm feeling like the Trump has a suspicious relationship with racism and racists I feel that those tweets are entirely benign. I don't know how these events typically go but I imagine they're only screening for content as it's unreasonable to expect them to dig up everything on an account and deliver the tweets while they are still relevant.

I'm using the Internet! Yeah!

From the novel Goldfinger:

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”

 

[Meghan54]

While I'm feeling like the Trump has a suspicious relationship with racism and racists I feel that those tweets are entirely benign. I don't know how these events typically go but I imagine they're only screening for content as it's unreasonable to expect them to dig up everything on an account and deliver the tweets while they are still relevant.

I'm using the Internet! Yeah!

I would hope that a tweet that's going to be used such as this tweet was used, during the Repub. convention and Trump's acceptance speech, would have a few minutes spent vetting the source. All they had to do was look at the tweet's author's Twitter page to find out, but I guess that's just too complicated. It's not like anyone had to "dig up" anything...the author's Twitter page was filled with racist, white supremacist rants.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I would hope that a tweet that's going to be used such as this tweet was used, during the Repub. convention and Trump's acceptance speech, would have a few minutes spent vetting the source. All they had to do was look at the tweet's author's Twitter page to find out, but I guess that's just too complicated. It's not like anyone had to "dig up" anything...the author's Twitter page was filled with racist, white supremacist rants.

That wasn't even the only white supremacist tweet they showed. They also scrolled another one from VDare on the Monday night. How many times is it now Trump or his campaign has quoted or retweeted white supremacist groups? When does it stop being an accident?

 

[compuwiz1]

Vote trump! Make racism ok again!

That should be the RNC's new motto, it's already their platform.

I don't hear Trump saying make America great again for only whitey. I hear him saying he will work for ALL Americans. I guess if one is an illegal or a terrorist, no he doesn't work for them. How is that a problem? Liberals playing the race card all the time is what's getting old. Please grow up, you just help create the division you complain about. Racism is not ok.

Now I want you to go show me that racism is in the GOP platform; show me where it says that.