The media are making much of Donald Trump's alleged hesitancy to condemn David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. Today, former GOP nominee for President Mitt Romney condemned Trump in part because his comments on Duke will be used many times by the Democrats should Trump be nominated by the Republicans in 2016.
Romney displays one major reason he lost his bid for the presidency in 2012 - he refuses to stand up agsinst the Left and the Democrats. In March 2007 at a church in Selma, Alabama, at a gathering to commemorate the 1960s civil rights march across the bridge going to the state capital in Montgomery, candidate for the Democratic nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama spoke. Another speaker was Pastor Estella Shabazz who brought greeting from leaders of the New Black Panther Party. Their leaders were outside the church, unable to get through the large crowd, but she wanted to assure the audience that the NBPP supported Obama for president in 2008. Later, during a march to recreate the earlier one, the leaders of the NBPP walked behind Obama with the Black Power slaute. Members of the NBPP have been recorded on tape urging the extermination of all white people, white men, white women, white babies. Once elected President, one of the first actions of the Obama Administration was to drop charges of voter intimidation that had been filed against the NBPP. (Read J. Christian Adams' INJUSTICE. pp. 103=104 and the photos).
Trump has not marched beside KKK units. Trump has not shared a stage with a David Duke and received his endorsement. And Duke's KKK (there are many versions of the organization) has never to my knowledge advocated violence. The NBPP members, by contrast, have openly called for the extermination of all whites. Obama marched beside them. Obama shared a platform with them. Obama won their endorsement. Obama dropped charges against them. AND THE MEDIA ARE WORRIED ABOUT TRUMP?!
I shared a TV screne with David Duke, by the way. WPIX-TV (
Recalling the debate, I said little compared to the other three panelists. When Duke declared he was for equal rights for all, I challenged him saying that in Louisiana I was for that and that is why I fought against segregation and was arrested in the first sit-in in New Orleans. I remineded people that his background was for preferences - segregation and preferences for whites. In effect, the half hour was 3 people against Duke. The producers so liked the show, they decided to tape a 2nd half hour to be shown the next day, but we would continue in the studio. Now the topic turned to affirmative action, and suddenly I was with Duke arguing that it was racial discrimination against white people. It was now 2 against 2. The producers decided this was not nearly as good, and they never telecast the 2nd hour. WPIX was not a network channel, but it was owned by the NY Daily News and had a sizable audience.
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