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Article: Duke for senator? (David Duke)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 3, 1990
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DAVIID DUKE, black-sheep Republican candidate for senator from Louisiana, is often cited as a symbol of resurgent racism. Duke, whose powers as a campaigner were limned by Tom Bethell ("The Hazards of David Duke," NR, August 20), is in fact proof of the fundamentally non-racist character of white American society, in that his present popularity was won only at the cost of doffing his white hood and employing the non-racial rhetoric of a color-blind society. If Duke employed even the rhetoric of racial solidarity of Marion Barry, he would be instantly marginalized.
His prominence also demonstrates the fact that while nature, strictly speaking, may not abhor a ...