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- <text id=91TT1659>
- <title>
- July 29, 1991: American Notes:Tennessee
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- TENNESSEE
- Guess Who's Coming?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> But Duke is also an ambitious politician who is a
- candidate for Governor of Louisiana, a state with a large black
- vote. At the rally at a downtown convention center he delivered
- a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his
- usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with quotas and
- set-aside programs for minority businessmen. The rally drew a
- meager audience of 30 people and was pitiful as a fund raiser.
- Duke, however, profited handsomely: he got a chance to soften
- his racist image without saying anything new.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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