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BWAHAHA: A Review of Senator Macaca's Rap Sheet (GOP=Treason) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_%28U.S._politician%29
Allen's sister's memoir
Allen's younger sister Jennifer Allen Richard wrote in her memoir
Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter (Random
House Publishing, 2000) that Allen attacked his younger siblings
during his childhood. [45] The memoir claims that Allen held her by
her feet over Niagara Falls,[46] struck her boyfriend in the head with
a pool cue,[47] threw his brother Bruce through a glass sliding door,
tackled his brother Gregory, breaking his collarbone,[48] and dragged
Jennifer upstairs by her hair. In the book, she wrote, "George hoped
someday to become a dentist…George said he saw dentistry as a perfect
profession—getting paid to make people suffer."[49]
Allen has disputed his sister's characterizations of their
childhood.[citation needed] Jennifer herself later qualified some of
the claims made in the book.[50] With regards to the pool cue
incident, she claimed it was a joke and that "Allen was simply testing
her boyfriend's reflexes." With regards to the dentist quote, Jennifer
claims that the book was a "novelization of the past" and written from
the perspective of a young girl "surrounded by older brothers and a
larger-than-life father". She claims to have a great relationship with
her brother and noted that Allen stepped in for their father to walk
her down the aisle at her wedding.
Barr Labs controversy
It was revealed on August 8, 2006 that Allen, who opposes abortion
(except in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother, and prior to
viability), owned stock in Barr Laboratories Inc., the only American
maker of the Plan B "morning after pill", an emergency contraceptive
that is supposed to prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of
intercourse. The Webb campaign criticized Allen for holding stock in a
company that makes a product that many of his supporters oppose. Allen
responded by saying that he holds the stock because Barr Labs has
created jobs in Virginia, and by pointing to his consistently pro-life
voting record.[51]
Confederate flag affinity
Allen has a long history of interest in the Confederate flag, in spite
of his never having lived in the South until his transfer from UCLA to
the University of Virginia as a sophomore in college.[6]
The May 8, 2006[6] and the May 15, 2006[16] issues of The New Republic
reported extensively on Allen's long association with the Confederate
flag. The magazine reported that "[a]ccording to his colleagues,
classmates, and published reports, Allen has either displayed the
Confederate flag – on himself, his car, inside his home – or expressed
his enthusiastic approval of the emblem from approximately 1967 to
2000." Allen wore a Confederate flag pin for his high school senior
class photo. In high school, college, and law school, Allen adorned
his vehicle with a Confederate flag. In college he displayed a
Confederate flag in his room. He displayed a Confederate flag in his
family's living room until 1992. Allen has stated that the flag was a
part of a collection of flags. In 1993, Allen's first statewide TV
campaign ad for governor included a Confederate flag. Greg Stevens,
the political consultant who made the 1993 TV ad, confirmed that the
ad included a Confederate flag.
Allen has confirmed that the pin in his high school yearbook was a
Confederate flag. Allen has said "it is possible" that he had a
Confederate flag on his car in high school.[6]
Council of Conservative Citizens
The Nation reported in 2006 that Allen, as Governor, initiated contact
with the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), one of the largest
white supremacist groups.[52] The CCC descended from the
segregationist White Citizens' Councils of the Jim Crow-era South.[53]
At a 1996 Conservative Political Action Conference attended by
Governor Allen and CCC leaders, Allen suggested that the group join
together for a photograph.[52] The Nation obtained and published the
resulting snapshot, which the CCC had printed in the summer 1996
edition of its Citizens Informer newsletter. The CCC is designated as
a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the
Anti-Defamation League, though the CCC disputes these claims.[54]
Macaca controversy
Main article: Virginia United States Senate election, 2006#Macaca
controversy
On Friday, August 11, 2006, at a campaign stop in Breaks, Virginia,
near the Kentucky border, Allen twice used the word "macaca" to refer
to S.R. Sidarth, who was filming the event as a "tracker" for the
opposing Webb campaign. Sidarth is of Indian ancestry, but was born
and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia. "Macaca" is considered a
racial slur in francophone African nations, which led to speculation
that Allen may have heard the epithet from his mother, a Francophone
who grew up in French-colonial Tunisia.
Mother's religious and ethnic background
In the wake of the Macaca controversy, the Jewish periodical The
Forward reported that in all likelihood, Allen's mother Etty Allen,
neé Henrietta Lumbroso, was Jewish "from the august Sephardic Jewish
Lumbroso family".[3], and that therefore by the Jewish legal rule of
matrilineal descent, Allen himself would be considered Jewish.
Although no mention is made of her mother's religion in Allen's
sister's book, she does mention that the Catholic Church, before
marrying the couple, required Allen's parents to agree that any
children would be raised Catholic, and as a result they decided to be
married by a justice of the peace in the home of a Jewish friend.[3]
At a debate on September 18, 2006 during which Allen mentioned that
his grandfather was a Holocaust survivor, WUSA-TV reporter Peggy Fox
followed up by asking Allen "It has been reported that your
grandfather Felix, whom you were given your middle name for, was
Jewish. Could you please tell us whether your forebears include Jews
and, if so, at which point Jewish identity might have ended?"[55]
Washington Post political writer Dana Milbank described Allen as
"recoiling as if he had been struck," and "furiously" answering: "Why
is that relevant—my religion, Jim's religion or the religious beliefs
of anyone out there?"[56]. Allen also said that Fox was "making
aspersions about people because of their religious beliefs"; Jewish
leaders were divided over whether the characterization "aspersions"
meant that Allen saw Jewish ancestry as something to be ashamed
of.[57]
Previously, Allen defended himself against charges of racism related
to the "macaca" incident by noting that his mother's father "was
incarcerated by the Nazis in World War II", implying that that was an
incident of racism from which he had learned it was wrong, an
assertion he repeated again after the debate.[56]
The next day – September 19, 2006 – Allen issued a statement to The
Forward confirming his mother's Jewish ancestry. The statement read:
George Allen (U.S. politician)
I was raised as a Christian and my mother was raised as a
Christian. And I embrace and take great pride in every aspect of my
diverse heritage, including my Lumbroso family line’s Jewish heritage,
which I learned about from a recent magazine article and my mother
confirmed.[58]
George Allen (U.S. politician)
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Allen "said in an interview
that he was aware of his heritage when asked about it" by Fox at the
September 18 debate.[59] The Washington Post reported that Allen's
mother feared retribution against her family if her ethnic background
became public, and had originally asked Allen to keep that information
private.[60]
Political pundits suggested that Allen, "a Californian by birth who
has reinvented himself as a cowboy boot-wearing, tobacco-chewing
Southern darling of the religious right", might feel, rightly or
wrongly, that his intended constituency might be eroded by the any
suggestion that he "might be on the other side of the line".[61]
Conversely, any attempt to be less than open about it would mean that
"He'd face serious questions, in the wake of the Macaca incident and
his history with the Confederate flag, of whether he’s both racially
prejudiced and anti-semitic."[3]
Allegations of Allen's use of racial slur in college
In an interview with Meet the Press, Allen declared, in regard to his
career as an athelete at college, "one of the things that you learn in
football is that you don't care about someone's race or ethnicity or
religion."[62]
On September 24, 2006, Salon.com Washington correspondent Michael
Scherer reported that the magazine had interviewed nineteen of his
teammates and that "[t]hree former college football teammates of Sen.
George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an
inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward
blacks during the early 1970s."[62] However, seven teammates have
stated they do not recall any racist behavior on Allen's part. Four of
these have made statements that were released by the Allen
campaign.[63]
Dr. Ken Shelton, a radiologist in Hendersonville, North Carolina who
played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when
Allen was quarterback, said "Allen said he came to Virginia because he
wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'"
and that Allen "used the N-word on a regular basis back then."[62]
Two other sources reportedly confirmed the claims, including a third
teammate contacted separately who "said he too remembers Allen using
the word '*****,' though he said he could not recall a specific
conversation in which Allen used the term" but that his "impression of
[Allen] was that he was a racist."[62] Shelton also said Allen "gave
him the nickname 'Wizard,' because he shared a last name with Robert
Shelton, who served in the 1960s as the imperial wizard of the United
Klans of America, a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.[62]
Several other teammates recalled the 'Wizard' nickname differently,
saying that Shelton earned it for his ability to catch seemingly
uncatchable passes. Joe Gieck, 35-year trainer for the University of
Virginia football team, recalled that "Ken Shelton got the ‘Wizard’
nickname for his pass catching ability and before George Allen came to
the University of Virginia."
In addition, Shelton also recounted an episode 30 years ago in which
he and Allen and a third friend shot a deer while hunting.[62] Shelton
said Allen cut the deer's head off, asked directions to the home of
the nearest black person, and shoved the head into that person's
oversized mailbox. On Monday Senator Allen called Shelton's
recollections "absolutely false," "pure fabrication" and "nonsense."
Two Louisa County sheriff's deputies who were on the force in the
early '70s said in interviews with the Daily Press that they recall no
complaints about severed animal heads. Retired Lt. Robert Rigsby said
he was in charge of investigations in the early '70s, and any such
report would have gone through him. "I think that's a myth," Rigsby
said. Another veteran officer, Deputy William Seay, also could recall
no such incident. Authorities said Tuesday they did not know if
records from so long ago would be preserved. A search of Louisa
County's weekly newspaper, The Central Virginian, for the years 1972
through 1974 yielded no account of a severed animal head being
discovered in a mailbox during the months that traditionally
constitute deer season, October through January. The leader of the
Louisa County chapter of the NAACP, Stewart Cooke, also said in a
telephone interview that he had not heard of such an incident. [64]
A second witness, a former roomate of the now deceased third friend
and former teammate of Allen's, came forward to confirm that he was
told the mailbox story around the time of the alleged incident. George
Beam, a nuclear engineering company manager who lives outside
Lynchburg, Va., said that he remembered Lanahan describing the hunting
trip with Allen and Shelton. Beam said that Lanahan had stated 'George
and Kenny and I went hunting, and we decided at some time to cut off
this deer head and stick it in a mailbox.' Beam said he does not
remember Lanahan saying that the incident was racially motivated. He
also said Lanahan did not specify who had the idea to put the deer
head in the mailbox. [65]
Later that day a professor at Alabama University came forward to claim
that he too heard Allen use an inflammatory epithet for African
Americans.
Allen dismissed the claims as "ludicrously false,"[66] citing
rebuttals by four other teammates. Critics contended that those
teammates may have been biased and in any case did not directly rebut
the accusations.[67] Virginia-based pundit Larry Sabato, an Allen
classmate at the University of Virginia, weighed in on the controversy
on the September 25 edition of Hardball, saying: "the fact is, [Allen]
did use the n-word, whether he's denying it now or not. He did use
it."[68][69] Prof. Sabato subsequently conceded that he had not
actually heard these words from Sen. Allen.
On September 27, 2006 the New York Times published a report that Ellen
G. Hawkins overhead Allen use the word said "she heard Mr. Allen use
the slur repeatedly at a party on election night in 1976."[70] Allen’s
campaign manager, ***** Wadhams, called the account by the woman, Ellen
G. Hawkins, "another false accusation." Also reported was An
anthropology professor, Christopher Taylor, said that as a graduate
student at the University of Virginia he heard Mr. Allen use the
epithet.[70]
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Yang, AthD (h.c), Cocaine Snorting ***** wrote:
http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2006/06/30/man-who-called-new-york-city-%E2%80%9Chymie-town%E2%80%9D-to-campaigns-for-keith-ellison/
Friday, June 30, 2006
MAN WHO CALLED NEW YORK CITY “HYMIE TOWN” CAMPAIGNS FOR KEITH ELLISON
"In town to help stump for state Rep. Keith Ellison's congressional
campaign, the Rev. Jesse Jackson put out a call Thursday night for at
least 100 people to organize a Twin Cities chapter of the Rainbow/PUSH
Coalition.
'When we are connected, we have power,' Jackson told a gathering of
about 50 area pastors and community members at New Salem Missionary
Baptist Church in north Minneapolis." Source: Star Tribune, June 30, 2006
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In 1984 while running for president, Jesse Jackson was caught refering
to New York City as "Hymie Town."
Hymie is a derogative term for a Jew. The origins of the word are
believed to come from Hymie, a nickname for Hyman.
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