Ku Klux Klan (United States)

Notes: Ku Klux Klan and homosexuality; David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American White nationalist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right politician, and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.[6][7] A former one-term Republican Louisiana State Representative, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988 and the Republican presidential primaries in 1992. Duke unsuccessfully ran for the Louisiana State Senate, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and Governor of Louisiana. Duke is a felon, having pleaded guilty to defrauding supporters by falsely claiming to have no money and being in danger of losing his home in order to solicit emergency donations; at the time, Duke was financially secure, and used the donations for recreational gambling. Duke describes himself as a "racial realist," asserting that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage."[8] Duke also speaks against what he describes as Jewish control of the Federal Reserve Bank, the federal government and the media. Duke supports the preservation of what he considers to be Western culture and traditionalist Christian family values, Constitutionalism, abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, voluntary racial segregation, anti-Communism and white separatism.[9][10][11] He also opposes what he considers to be "promotion of homosexuality" by Jews.[12]

Related Material: Penni Kimmel article "The rise of the third wrong: David Duke & the new klan," Alternate Magazine (SF), no.9, 1979.