David Duke’s Political Future
The coalition that elected Edwin Edwards was unprecedented in its ideological breadth and use of economic pressure. This was fit and proper, given Duke’s Nazi and KKK association. Despite this, he won half the votes of Louisiana’s whites. Why? Because he denounced the official racism now permeating our government and society.
Affirmative action, goals and timetables, contract set-asides, within-group score conversions, history as self-esteem therapy, etc., are splitting America into jealous ethnic tribes. Each competes against the others for the attention of the preference-dispensing government by dramatizing its status as victim, thereby inflaming racial fears and resentments. Lost in this process is the idea of an America able to transform a polyglot into a nation.
NED McCUNE, Costa Mesa
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