Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Lashes Out At ‘Degenerate’ Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj - November 23, 2014 - 2014 American Music Awards held at Nokia Theater, Los Angeles. (Photo by Nicki Minaj
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Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke last week lashed out at hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj over her comments on the Eric Garner decision.

Minaj on Tuesday lamented that the grand jury did not to indict the New York City police officer who used a chokehold on a black man.

“It’s sickening, and I’ve been reading so many people saying, ‘Why are we surprised?’ That’s what’s really sad: that we should somehow be used to being treated like animals,” Minaj told Rolling Stone. “It’s gotten to the point where people feel like there’s no accountability: If you are law enforcement and you do something to a black person, you can get away with it.”

On his radio show last week, Duke launched into a rant responding to Nicki Minaj.

“Why do people blame blacks like Minaj?” he asked, according to Time. “Because Minaj wouldn’t be a pimple on somebody’s rear end except for the fact that she is promoted by the Jewish record producers and the media, the mass media, the powerful media, that promotes absolute degenerates like her.”

Duke also addressed reports that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise spoke at an event for Duke’s white nationalist group in 2002.

“He came and actually just spoke to his local constituents about one of his tax bills, and they are trying to make it out like this is a big deal,” Duke said about Scalise’s speech.

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  1. Just another inane comment from a mainstream Republican.

  2. Well hey, what’s racist about that?

  3. I just love that the GOP is going into the new GOP led Congress with the most well known klansman and racist having now been raised back to national prominence. I suspect that at some point various GOPers are going to get tired of being asked about Duke and will attack him. That will be right before Duke starts naming names. Of course, then the media will defer to Mia Love as if she’s the voice of black America.

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