David Duke joins student demonstration on LSU’s campus in support of Confederate symbols

About two dozen students gathered near LSU’s golf course Thursday night, eating hot dogs and listening to music at what the NAACP chapter billed as a “Confederate BBQ.”

Across campus, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke sat on a bench outside the Lod Cook Hotel with three young men, defending the Confederacy.

And the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group whose meeting at the hotel on LSU’s campus this week spurred all of this, quietly went about their normal evening activities.

There were no fireworks or confrontations, though Duke was asked to move along after chatting for about half an hour as curious hotel guests shuffled past him.

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