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<text id=91TT1659>
<title>
July 29, 1991: American Notes:Tennessee
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 25
American Notes
TENNESSEE
Guess Who's Coming?
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<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.
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