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Wolf said maintaining the diversity of Cambridge's academic programs, making decisions concerning teacher and administrator appointments, and eliminating sexist and racist texts from the curriculum are other key issues in tomorrow's election...
...talking about race. "I believe in equal rights for all, special privilege for none," says Duke. That seemingly laudable concept is a thinly veiled appeal to frustrated whites who feel they are victims of reverse discrimination. It is a clever ploy, and one whose attraction stretches far beyond the racist vote. A master at driving wedges through the electorate by exploiting race-linked issues, Duke is moving these once taboo topics from the back room to the public forum. As one wizened Cajun in Donaldsonville puts it, "He tell it like it is. He ain't scared...
...organization in 1979. Soon after, he founded a white supremacist group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. The divorced father of two teenage daughters, Duke held no regular job before his election to the state legislature. He has supported himself as a seller of racist and anti-Semitic literature and as a professional fund raiser for his own right-wing causes...
Duke, whose intense blue eyes betray an inner fanaticism, tries to shrug off his past. "I'm not a racist," he says during an interview in the two-story Metairie home that doubles as his headquarters. "I was too intolerant in an earlier time in my life. But I certainly am not now." Though his disavowal drips with disingenuousness, it is winning converts -- particularly among educated middle-class voters who sense something is terribly wrong with the state. Duke, who fancies comparisons with Boris Yeltsin, appeals to the same kind of throw-the-bums-out impulse that the Russian leader...
Jeffries has been the center of controversy since a speech he made this June in Albany, New York, at a Black arts festival. As numerous news organizations have reported again and again, the speech included anti-Semitic, racist and anti-gay remarks...