Straight from the super racist horse’s mouth:
Though in the midst of a campaign for the Senate seat of retiring Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana), former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke is holding fast to his spot as a far-right radio pundit.
Late last week, Duke and his co-host, Don Advo, discussed the Donald Trump campaign’s hiring of Stephen Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart, a right-wing publication, as campaign CEO. Advo remarked that “We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,” where “we” refers to the white supremacist movements active on the American right. The comment elicited a laugh from Duke, who went on to say this:
“Well, rank and file, but a lot of those boll weevils are still in those cotton balls… The Republican Party may be a European-American populated party, but like a ball of cotton, you can have boll weevils in there that are going to rot it out from the inside.”
Oh by the way:
According to recent reports, an estimated 12 percent of European Americans in Louisiana have at least 1 percent African ancestry in their DNA. In the Southern States of this country, by most standards, this makes them African American. Viewed from another perspective, 328,186 people in Louisiana, who self-identified as white on the last census, are actually black. On a larger scale, 6 million people who consider themselves white in the United States of America, carry African DNA. This makes it almost impossible for David Duke and other separatists to accurately assess eligibility of their desired membership. As more people join the throng of those seeking to know and understand their genetic background, Duke's challenge will become more daunting.
Modern social scientists conclude that race is merely a sociopolitical construct. If we examine race scientifically, all humans are from Africa. In other words, if you are human, the source of your humanness is African. Mitochondrial Eve, the mother of all humans, lived in Africa 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. Is Duke's fatal flaw his rejection of his humanness? Within the recent past, geneticists have concluded that blonde and red hair, light eyes and freckles are Neanderthal traits. All persons of European ancestry share Neanderthal DNA. When Homo sapiens sapiens, known as anatomically modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa about 50,000 years ago, they mixed with Neanderthals.
Many historical Europeans the world views as white share African DNA from the recent past. Queen Charlotte, the wife of England's King George the III, and an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II and her grandchildren and great grandchildren hailed from African ancestry. Beethoven, Alexander Pushkin, Carol Channing and many other historical and modern persons descended from African ancestors.
By the way, here’s something a little scary:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doesn’t have a very high opinion of gun owners, if his joke about the potential assassination of Hillary Clinton was any indication, but “Second Amendment people” took a verbal blow from another politically prominent Republican politician this week. Former Ku Klux Klan leader and current U.S. Senate candidate David Duke was going over his upcoming schedule with fellow white supremacist Doctor Patrick Slattery when he casually mentioned that he’d be doing some “big gun shows” in the middle of his state, for reasons that are obvious to Duke, at least:
We’re going to some of the big gun shows in the middle of the state, because that’s a great place to meet people of our, of our stripe, and we’ve been getting so much support from these places.
Stay tuned.