The Ku Klux Klan by 50MINUTES.COM

Author:50MINUTES.COM
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 50Minutes.com
Published: 2017-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

David Duke, the founder of the Knights of the KKK

David Duke was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1950, and his family eventually settled in Louisiana after spending several years travelling around the globe for business reasons during his childhood. In the 1960s, he met William Luther Pierce (American white supremacist, 1933-2002), the founder of the nationalist, anti-Semitic National Alliance party, who greatly influenced Duke’s beliefs.

In 1967, Duke joined the local cell of the KKK, and two years later he founded the White Youth Alliance at Louisiana State University. He was arrested for the first time in 1972, along with three friends, on the charge of inciting a riot. The skirmish in question broke out after Duke and the others placed a Confederate flag on the Robert E. Lee Monument. A few months later, he founded the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKKK), an organisation which aimed to re-establish racial segregation, and named himself its Imperial Wizard. However, he rejected the group’s traditional disguises in favour of a suit and tie, having decided to modernise the old KKK’s outdated traditions. In 1976, he organised several Neo-Nazi gatherings in Europe, and helped found a Canadian branch of the KKK. Duke was deported, and gradually distanced himself from the KKKK’s activities, especially when several members accused him of misappropriating the group’s funds for his personal expenses. Having already campaigned for election to the Louisiana Senate in 1975 and 1979, he left the KKKK in 1980 and devoted himself to politics full-time. He joined the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP) and ran in the primaries for the Democrat Party in the presidential election of 1988, winning a mere 0.04% of the vote. He then jumped ship to join the Republican Party, and served as an elected member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1989 to 1992. In 1991, he campaigned to be elected as Governor of Louisiana, and received a sizeable share of the vote. One year later, he ran in the primaries for the Republican Party in another presidential election, receiving a mere 0.94% of the vote.

This was his last foray into the world of politics until 2016, when he ran in the elections for the US Senate, although he has continued to endorse other candidates from time to time, such as Donald Trump (American president and businessman, born in 1946). He has been deported from Italy and the Czech Republic for incitement to hatred and on suspicion of trying to found a European Neo-Nazi organisation.

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