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DUKE, you may remember, is the former Ku Klux Klan "Imperial Wizard" who sparked a national firestorm two years ago when he won a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He "shocked" Americans and received hate mail from the Bush White House and Ronald Reagan for running as a Republican...
...tensions rose, two of the clinics petitioned Kelly to stop the blockades, basing their legal argument on sections of an 1871 law popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. Although the act was initially designed to protect freed slaves from intimidation by Southern whites, some federal courts have ruled that it may also be used to shield women seeking abortions from pro-lifers' wrath. With this as precedent, Kelly on July 23 enjoined Operation Rescue from blocking entrance to the clinics...
Talk about strange bedfellows. Even David Duke, the blow-dried Louisiana legislator and former Ku Klux Klansman, must have been taken aback when a black Pentecostal church in Memphis invited him to speak at a rally to raise money for a gymnasium to serve inner-city black youths. "Duke draws a crowd, he has a message and he says he's a Christian," explained Jimmy Boyd, the owner of a local gospel radio station, who arranged the event...
...everyone was in a mood to celebrate. Environmentalists decry the busts as a desecration of nature. New Republic writer Alex Heard identified Gutzon Borglum, Rushmore's eccentric creator, as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. And the Sioux Indians charge that the memorial is sculpted from sacred land that was stolen by the government. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Ziolkowski family since 1948 has been carving an even grander likeness of Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior, from a nearby mountain...
...want to sound apocalyptic about these developments. Education is always in ferment, and a good thing too. The situation in our universities, I ; am confident, will soon right itself. But the impact of separatist pressures on our public schools is more troubling. If a Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to use the schools to disable and handicap black Americans, he could hardly come up with anything more effective than the "Afrocentric" curriculum. And if separatist tendencies go unchecked, the result can only be the fragmentation, resegregation and tribalization of American life...