David Duke
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Describing himself as an activist for "European Americans" and president of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization,[1] while the Anti-Defamation League calls him "perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite", [2] David Duke (1950-) has been active in nativism (political)|nativist activism and also in the political system. He founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People in 1980, and a revival of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1974. In 1989, he won a seat in the Louisiana state legislature, representing Metairie, Louisiana, in the Louisiana State Legislature. Subsequently, he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1990 and 1996, for Governor of Louisiana in 1991, for President of the United States in 1992, and for Congress in 1998. In both the 1990 and 1991 races, he attracted a majority of Louisiana's white voters.[2] He ran for Congress in the 2000 election, as a Republican Party (United States)|Republican, and Phil Baum, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, wrote a letter to the New York Times mentioning that while the Republican National Committee and national Republicans disavowed him, the Republican Governor of Louisiana, Mike Foster, refused to do so.[3] He was imprisoned in 2003-2004 for mail fraud and tax evasion related to his campaign finances. Don Black of Stormfront has spoken at his conferences. Duke has appeared on James Edwards' "Political Cesspool" show and on Heshan Tillawi's "Current Issues (Heshan Tillawi)|Current Issues". He continues to identify as a Republican, saying of Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committtee,
On his website, Elizabeth Wright criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League for calling the Federation for American Immigration Reform a hate group. [5] Education
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