. She’s not sure why he stayed on the phone that long. She thinks that Duke may have thought she was white and that she’d pass on his talking points to her parents.
Burnett’s parents weren’t Duke supporters. They did believe in good manners, though, and they asked their daughter to write Duke a thank-you note. Duke printed Burnett’s letter—and her home address—in the newsletter for his National Association for the Advancement of White People.I received at least three letters that I remember from prisoners, from inmates telling me that they were, you know, 5-foot-whatever or 6-foot-whatever, brown hair, blue eyes, and, you know, they were Aryan,” she said.
There’s a moment at the very end of Burnett’s tape that really got to me. It comes when her conversation with Duke is over, but before she stops her recorder.You heard it,” she says. “God, that guy is a jerk. Well, maybe not. He was just getting his points through, and he was like, ‘you should look at two sides of every story.’ ”I mean, he’s saying I should get the book!” she said. “ ‘You should learn and listen to both sides of an argument.
Snyder introduced Duke to a huge new audience, and I don’t think he understood the gravity of that choice. The 37-year-old late-night host wasn’t as prepared as the 12-year-old Jo-Anna Burnett: He allowed Duke to define himself and to spread his white nationalist message nationwide. Other TV anchors have done a much better job confronting Duke. But sometimes, the best choice is to keep someone like Duke off the stage entirely.
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