European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday november a 1991 the stars and stripes Page 13 . Rosentha defeat of Duke would Best Honor Louisiana just Over a week is left before election Day in Louisiana. That a not much time but enough for the voters to understand what they will be doing to their state if they elect David Duke As governor and what they will be doing to themselves. Up to now there have been Nicey Nicey modifiers Usea to describe David Duke. But if he wins this Man will be seen by the world not As a Neo nazi not As a former nazi but right out Plain As the first nazi governor elected in the United states. As a Louisiana politician he did not get nearly enough attention in other parts of the country. Most americans i assume thought he could not really happen Here. As a governor he would get full attention a in the . And in every country that has suffered under nazism every country whose people died fighting it All people who know it could return from the dead and tear the grave is opening in Louisiana. His record will be memorized a the Swastika he wore around his Arm in College the Kkt Hood the birthday parties and toasts for the fihrer the political party he formed and then Allied with open american nazis. The sewer of anti Black and anti semitic garbage that pours out of him the whole sickening record will be etched into the brains of millions around the world. No Nicey Nicey. Duke nazi Louisiana will become an automatic thought association. Businessmen in Louisiana Are warning about a Boycott of the state under a governor Duke. But 1 doubt anybody can gauge now How very deep and lasting the disgust wifi be. Americans and foreigners who detest nazis and All political bigotry will realize they can express their disgust Only by withholding Trade conventions sport tourism and investment from the state that chose David Duke. Lance Hill the political scholar who is head of the Louisiana coalition against racism and nazism says the Cost of world revulsion still has not sunk in and now is the time to shout the truth to louisianans. Yes but inside us we know that something More than economic warning will be needed to change the minds of those now planning to vote for this Man. That is the realization that if he wins they will never be Able to escape responsibility a not some Anonymous mass of voters but they themselves each one personally. Until now the talk has been mostly about How some via amp res k Patriot when you really need one thing outside the responsibility of each person would be to blame. How president Bush did not say enough or said too much How the Willie Horton and made anti Lack bigotry politically potent or How the presidential to show denouncing jewish lobbyists brought anti semitic mail that startled the White House. But simply to blame the Duke vote on the president is to treat louisianans As mindless idiots. David Duke has been around for a Long time moving right up there. Many Duke voters Are not suffering from anything but their own mind poisoning bigotry. They have made their Choice. Only god has the stomach to peer into their consciences and no doubt will. But among the majority of White voters who now support this fellow on what he intends to be the Road to the while House there must be Many who do because they feel the democratic candidate Edwin w. Edwards is no great bargain. They lean to David Duke As something new. These voters still have Choice and conscience. They Are the Hope of Louisiana. Together with the Blacks of Louisiana the strongest bulwark against this Man they can defeat him. Doing so they would Honor their state and themselves a and not Cut the rest of the world off from All that Good music Good food and Good company in la Luisiana. C the now York time Scarl Rowa Brouhaha Over team names is waste of time i was trying to withdraw from the slime and anger Over Clarence Thomas and the . Supreme court and get Back to the soothing world of sports. 1 suddenly found that racial and cultural conflicts were there too. I left the Arena of anguish Over sexual harassment looking for Days of serenity in which i could cheer the Atlanta braves into the world series push my Washington redskins to their first Victory Over the new York giants in seven games and then agonize Over whether the Florida state seminoles should1 whip the Miami hurricanes. I found myself in the Eye of another rising storm. I got called by someone who resented baseball fans in Atlanta wearing Lead feathers and even former president Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter and braves owner Ted Turner using the Quot Tomahawk chop to inspire the braves to defeat the Pittsburgh pirates. I was told that when the braves played in the world series in Minnesota where t have known personally a lot of Chippewa and Sioux indians there would be demonstrations against the Atlanta Quot insults against native americans. Quot you re kidding Quot i said to my caller. Quot i have written reams about the injustices heaped upon All native americans. But when it comes to sports nicknames american indians Haven t had it so gym gtd since they kicked Custer s i told the caller that i had just gone through the travesty of the Senate hearings on Thomas a so please Don t drag me into a useless Donnybrook about the monikers of sports teams conversation Over 1 thought about How the term Quot fighting Irish once conjured up an image of poor immigrants in new England who got drunk and crawled the stereotype being that fighting was their second favorite recreation. 1 doubt that you now can Lind one american of Irish descent who resents the notre Dame football team calling itself a the fighting Irish Quot notre Dame s latest heroes May be Black or polish or have islamic names but they still make legions of Irish people proud. This country has so Many serious social problems that go unaddressed that it pains me to Sec people wasting their outrage on the nicknames of sports teams a usually Only the winning ones. Count on someone to accuse Abe Pollin of being a front for the National Rifle association gun lobby if he Ever gets his Washington bullets Back into a championship game. In it really offends someone that Black Art Monk and Reddish Mark by pics arc called Quot redskins a what should Jack Kent Cooke Call his team should he Honor the slurs by renaming them a the Washington muggers Quot or Quot the Washington dopes How do children Ever again play cowboys and indians if Dallas can have cowboys Denver can have Broncos hut no team can have any native americans is m Miami coach Don Shula now relying on the animal rights league to help him Quot save the dolphins Quot one Day of listening to zealotry about sports nicknames has driven me Back to writing and talking about the struggles Lor political racial and sexual Conquest. I Here s no h id in place Down Here. Airin
