David Duke Quotes
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.
Duke, David. The Crusader, issue 23, 1978. Cited in Bridges, Tyler. The Rise of David Duke. University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
He was advocating separation of the races.
There had been vicious assaults on most of the Black workers, when a few Negro welders were hired. The “compromise” was that the Negro workers would be protected from harm but there would be no Blacks in skilled positions. This was despite a huge labor shortage and a critical national need for the ships in the midst of war. Patriotism and the national crisis could not overcome the racism and hatred that existed in America. Northern newspapers pointed out the irony that America was practicing and upholding the racial theories of Hitler and the Nazis.
Hale's "Church" was a White Supremicist violent, terrorist, organization. Hale himself was jailed for attemoting to assassinate a Federal Judge. This quotation is historically interesting as it shows the strange paranoid thinking of one of the American Ultra Right Wing Organizations in America at the beginning of the 21st century.
He was an egomaniac of the largest KKK in the nation. Most people are surprised to learn that the largest KKK chapter was in Indiana rather than in one of the old South states. The KKK was so strong at that time, that the KKK officials could meet with the President and other government officials.
This classic quotation illustrates several things. First, the degree of racism that existed in 1944 in West Virginia. Second, not how young Robert Byrd immediately leaped from the possibility of integrating our fighting forces to interracial sex. That has been typical of white racism in America—a preoccupation with race and sex. Last, Byrd who became a member of the KKK, completely changed his mind over the year and ended up supporting the things that, as a youth were worse than the demise of the nation. He matured and grew on the race issue as much of the country did and ended as a strong supporter of equality and civil rights—including affirmative action.
The KKK were riling up the white shrimpers because Vietnamese-American fishermen were fishing in ‘their waters”. The Southern Poverty Law Center, on behalf of the Vietnamese Fishermen, sued the KKK in Federal Court and won an injunction prohibiting the Klan from continuing its training program to burn the Vietnamese-American’s boats. Some of the Vietnamese-American fisherman had fought agaist the Viet Cong in Vietnam before coming to American and they armed themselves with shotguns and rifles, Faced with legal and possible violent resistance, Beam and the Klansmen disappeared from the area.
David Ernest Duke is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right politician, convicted felon, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. His publications and politics are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system. The Anti-Defamation League has described Duke as "perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite".
