All Hell Breaks Loose at Dillard University Debate with David Duke

by eNews Park Forest on November 3, 2016

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LOUISIANA–(ENEWSPF)–November 3, 2016

By Thandisizwe Chimurenga

A police officer pushes his way outside to keep protesters at bay, before a debate for Louisiana candidates for the U.S. Senate, at Dillard University in New Orleans, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. They were protesting the presence of former Ku Klux Klan leader and current U.S. Senate candidate David Duke, who was participating in the debate at the historically black college. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

So, the brilliants minds over at Raycom Media decided to have a debatefor six candidates running for a vacant Unite States Senate seat from Louisiana. They decided to have this debate at an HBCU—Historically Black College/University—named Dillard University in New Orleans. They included notorious white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan national leader David Duke, ‘cause he’s one of the candidates for the Senate seat. But they excluded…