White supremacist candidate qualifies for debate at HBCU
10/28/2016, 7:46 p.m.
Special to Trice Edney News Wire
from North Start News Today
White supremacist David Duke has qualified for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate debate scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Dillard University, a historically black university based in New Orleans.
Mr. Duke, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a white terrorist organization, has based his campaign on calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization. He also is campaigning to stop what he claims is racism against white people.
Mr. Duke qualified for participation in the debate by reaching a 5 percent threshold of voter support among five other declared candidates for the office.
The vote for U.S. Senate will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8, the same day as the nation’s presidential election.
The American Missionary Association of the Congregational Church, now the United Church of Christ, and the Freemen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now the United Methodist Church, founded what later became Dillard in 1869 as Straight University and Union Normal School.
After several other name changes and associations, the school was named Dillard University in 1935.
