By Alan Bean

David Duke has changed his hairstyle–quite flattering, don’t you think?  He is also reaching out to Tea Party enthusiasts with a nifty new video.

Duke says the Zionist media hates and fears the Tea Party for the same reason they hate and fear a well-intentioned White Nationalist like David Duke.  The media know the Framers of the US Constitution, heroes like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, envisioned America as a European nation and were distressed by the prospect of non-European immigration.

From what I have heard from the Tea Party folk, they should like David’s YouTube video.  Flashing a brief clip from Leave it to Beaver, Duke remarks that, up until the 1950s, America was a white-dominated country.  Then something went terribly wrong.  He doesn’t tell us what that something was, but I think we can guess.

Still, some Tea Party folk will recoil from Duke’s suggestion that we should pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and redeploy them to the Mexican border.  The common Tea Party view is that we should keep the armed forces where they are AND flood the Rio Grande region with armed guards.  Then we should pay for it with tax cuts that generate unprecedented economic activity.

Duke claims that the vast majority of white people in America agree with him.  The only difference between me and them, he says, is that I have the guts to tell you what I really think.  

Oh, and if you meet David at a party, remember that he hates being referred to as an ex-Ku Klux Klansman.  True, he belonged to a “non-violent Klan chapter”, but that was a long, long time ago.  Now he’s just a guy who thinks we should run all the Jews out of politics and positions of influence in the entertainment world while deporting all the non-Europeans.   But never, never would he endorse oppression against any people for any reason.

Duke has placed his finger on one salient issue.  American history is rife with examples of white people behaving in precisely the way David Duke would behave should he be given the opportunity.  Political debates revolve around contemporary issues, but history is always the elephant in the room.  Should white people feel guilty about the way we treated native Americans, black slaves, the Philippines, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans, the Irish, etc., or should we continue to teach our children inspiring myths that leave out all the nasty bits. 

Of course there is a third option: we can subscribe to David Duke’s belief that the nasty stuff, properly interpreted, wasn’t really nasty at all.  Unfortunately, to do that you’ve got to embrace the doctrine of white supremacy in all its late nineteenth century ferocity.

What do you say, white folks?  Are we up for it?

By the way, David Duke is hinting strongly about a presidential run in 2010.  I hope he goes for it. 

No, really, I do.