So, David Dukes sends me an email ... (Roy Johnson/al.com)
Updated on September 1, 2017 at 11:33 AM Posted on August 31, 2017 at 10:59 AM
By Roy S. Johnson
rjohnson@al.com
Most mornings, I check my work email soon after I rise, particularly so when one of my columns is posted online or published in one of our three newspapers. On those days, since I often write on sensitive and polarizing subjects like race and politics, I steel myself to whatever's there.
Yet even I was taken aback last when, on the morning I posted a satirical column threatening to end my relationship with long-time friend Robert Lee because I was "offended by his name, I saw that I had received a correspondence from "David Dukes" with the subject: "Your column on AL.com"
Holy ----, I thought, before quickly opening the email to see what the despicable white supremacist and former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan had to say to me.
Of course, that's David Duke, which my still-sleep-filled eyes had seen instead of David Dukes, who turned out to be a self-described "70-year-old white dude" from Mobile with a sense of humor.
"Loved your thoughts and attitude," he wrote. "Having my name in the South has been complicated, to say the least, but we move on and get over it. Have a great day."
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