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...opening day of the season (the Louisiana State-Georgia game), Duke strikes out into the jumble of vans and says facetiously, "We might even meet some opposition out here!" A woman at one van, standing next to a scribbling reporter, shouts, "We love you, David, and to hell with the media." (In the best Southern tradition of jocular animosity, she hugs me while she says it.) Young people along his route take up and pass along his barked accolade: "Duke!" "Duke!" "Duke!" "Duke...
...this audience, the welfare chiseler is an icon of moral theft rather than a real challenge to the pocketbook. (Welfare in Louisiana is stingy; aid for dependent children takes only 2% of the state budget.) Duke's people are affronted by the thought that large bodies of blacks are getting something for nothing, or actually being rewarded for irresponsibility (or crime). Ronald Reagan got great mileage from a mythical "welfare queen." Duke has a true story he tells to even greater effect, developing it to apocalyptic dimensions. He gave me one of its shorter versions...
...first baby born in New Orleans last year was the eighth child of a woman on welfare -- all eight born in the hospital at taxpayers' expense. In Louisiana it costs about $4,000 a year to educate a child in public school. Eight times four is about $30,000 a year. In ten years that is $300,000 -- in education costs alone, and you haven't talked about welfare payments, food stamps, housing; you haven't talked about police and fire protection; you haven't talked about courts and corrections. It is estimated by most sources that every child born...
...tales would rattle even the sturdiest confessional. First came the story of seven Roman Catholic priests who were charged in the mid-'80s with sexually abusing young boys in Louisiana. Then there was this year's scandal at New York City's Covenant House, culminating in a commissioned report stating that Father Bruce Ritter, founder of the renowned shelter for runaways, had a pattern of improper sexual conduct with youths going back to 1970. Last month came the news that Atlanta's Archbishop Eugene Marino and one of his priests had resigned because both men had been intimate with...
...Klansman won a seat in the Louisiana legislature as a Republican and is running for the U.S. Senate; in spite of recent revelations that he once used a pseudonym to co-author a book that included explicit sexual techniques, he hopes to force a runoff with Democrat J. Bennett Johnston...