The biased, dirty, lying Memphis Commercial Appeal Newspaper

The following is a letter we received from a journalist who attended Dr. David Duke’s press conference on Thursday, November 6th.

I am a journalist who attended Dr. David Duke’s press conference today and I was shocked by the biased newspaper article I saw on the Commercial Appeal  website about it. I can’t write about it in the publication I work for because I would lose my job for simply telling the truth about this matter.

I don’t agree with the politics of David Duke, but I consider myself a real journalist who aspires to write honestly and not bring my own prejudices to my work. I treat everyone, whether I agree with them or not with the same degree of respect and fairness. That’s why I referred to Dr. David Duke with the “Dr.” title, just as my articles on Dr. Martin Luther King refer to him with “Dr.” because that is his proper title. Dr. Duke is a PhD just as Dr. Martin Luther King was. 

The Commercial Appeal article headlined: “Duke says white power conference set for new location.” In actual fact, Dr. Duke does not and has never used the slogan, “White Power.” The first thing Dr. Duke did at the press conference was to point out that he wasn’t a “White Power” advocate but a white civil rights advocate. He also clearly stated he was not a “white supremacist” but believed in equal rights for all “even for white people.” He contends that Whites face widespread racial discrimination in affirmative action hiring, promotions, scholarships and college admissions, and that government immigration policies will damage the long term, intrinsic interests of whites. The EURO president also said that there are thousands of groups in America that openly promote the interests of African Americans, Mexican Americans and Jewish Americans, so why shouldn’t Whites have the right to defend their rights and heritage.

He went on to relate that his original conference with over 100 rooms rented at the Whispering Woods Hotel was canceled after threats on the life of the Hotel Manager and his wife and children, and after Desoto county declared a State of Emergency. He said that America is not free when terrorist threats can prevent Americans from exercising their rights to assemble peaceably and speak freely. One of the scheduled conference speakers, a English-fluent human rights attorney from Moscow, Russia, Masha Vallachenko, expressed her shock at the cancellation saying, “I had always believed that America was the land of the free, but now I am not so sure.” (more…)