Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust

mike · #1 05-12-2006, 09:16 PM

I thought Democrats were the party of diversity!

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A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."

Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group's Internet site.

"It's time to stop pushing down the white man. We've been discriminated against too long," Darby said in the interview.

Full story here.

Doutdes · #2 05-14-2006, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by mike

I thought Democrats were the party of diversity!

What shows diversity more than Jews and Holocaust Deniers working together for religious freedom, equitable tax system and the right to privacy?

Seriously though, this one man doesn't reflect on the Democratic Party at all. He's running in the primary and I don't think there is a chance that he'd actually win it. If I remember this by the time the primary is over, I'll try to post what percentage of the vote he actually got. It might mean nothing, though, if Alabama has an open primary ballot.

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