The National Association for the Avancement of White People is a white nationalist political organization in the United States founded in 1980 by David Duke. Its name is a takeoff on — and, some assert, a parody of — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The group self-purportedly advocates white separatism as opposed to white supremacy. It is headquartered in Metairie in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans.