ary vote, which was enough to knock-off incumbent Buddy Roemer, who received twenty-nine percent, and get in a run-off with Edwin Edwards, who led with thirty-five percent. During this runoff, Duke received most of his media attention as he appeared numerous times on CNN and other political shows. Duke still lost the runoff to Edwards in 1991, yet he decided he would shoot for the White House the following year. But when Pat Buchannan entered the election, Duke lost the ultra-conservative, angry white male vote he was to capitalize on. Racism in the United States is outlined in elections of characters like David Duke. "The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson recently condemned former Ku Klux Klan Wizard David Duke's election to the Louisiana House of Representatives, calling it the result of a national problem of racism and one "the entire nation has to deal with" ("Duke election..." 7). It is the cooperation of leaders nation wide that use basis of moral understanding in striving to erase bias especially in politics. Today, the Ku Klux Klan does not just threaten minority groups on the political level. Nearly 100 African-American churches have been burned to the ground in the past year in a half. While some arrests made have not linked the Klan with the fires, many have. Two South Carolina Klan members have been arrested for burglarizing and setting ablaze two churches, the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal of Greeleyville and the Macedonia Baptist church of Bloomville. The two men, Timothy Welch and Gary Cox, had attended a Klan meeting only weeks before the fires. Welch was arrested with his Ku Klux Klanidentification card in his wallet. The other, Gary Cox, lived with another Klan member in a trailer. When a local newspaper asked Welch's mother to comment on what her son did, she replied, "Those boys felt the blessing of the Klan...They take these young country boys who don't really know a lot and have never been out in the world, an...
