Candidate For Alabama Attorney General Denies The Holocaust

The Associated Press reports Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about Larry Darby, a Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general, who denies the Holocaust occurred and will and wants to "reawaken white racial awareness:"

In an interview Friday 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."

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.

How could such a bigot would win the support of 12 percent of the respondents in a recent poll?

Comments

[Walter E. Wallis]

This is an unfortunate but expected backlash against the policy that only whites can be racist and anything blacks do is justifiable reaction to 400 years of slavery.