result #102469 - IS THIS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE A RACIST?

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political : IS THIS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE A RACIST?

[+] serious ballot by cranky
ACTIVE Sep 25,2006 - Sat Jun 20, 09

Teammates: Allen used "N-word" in college

Three members of Sen. George Allen's college football team remember a man with racist attitudes at ease using racial slurs.

By Michael Scherer
Sep. 24, 2006 |

Three 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.

"Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback. "He used the N-word on a regular basis back then."

A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign, separately claimed that Allen used the word "nigger" to describe blacks. "It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used," the teammate said.

A third white teammate contacted separately, who also spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of being attacked by the Virginia senator, said he too remembers Allen using the word "nigger," though he said he could not recall a specific conversation in which Allen used the term. "My impression of him was that he was a racist," the third teammate said.

Shelton also told Salon that the future senator 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.

The racial attitudes of Allen, a once formidable presidential contender in 2008, have become an issue in his highly contested reelection campaign against Jim Webb, a former Marine and author.

Last month, Allen was videotaped calling an Indian-American college student "macaca," an obscure word for monkey that is also used as a racial epithet in some parts of the world.

Last week, Allen again created controversy by appearing offended when a reporter asked about the Jewish lineage in his mother's family, which he has since acknowledged.

Allen has also faced questions about his affinity for the Confederate flag, which he wore as a pin in a high school yearbook photo and exhibited in his home in Virginia.

Shelton played football with Allen in the 1972 and 1973 seasons, according to the team media guides from those years. Shelton remembers Allen's attitudes about race surfacing early in their relationship. At one point, Shelton says, Allen nicknamed him "Wizard," after United Klans imperial wizard Robert Shelton. "He asked me if I was related at all," Shelton remembers. "I knew of that name, and I said absolutely not."

Shelton said he also remembers a disturbing deer hunting trip with Allen on land that was owned by the family of Billy Lanahan, a wide receiver on the team. After they had killed a deer, Shelton said he remembers Allen asking Lanahan where the local black residents lived. Shelton said Allen then drove the three of them to that neighborhood with the severed head of the deer. "He proceeded to take the doe's head and stuff it into a mailbox," Shelton said.

Accusations of racial insensitivity have long dogged Allen's political career. As a member of the Virginia Legislature, Allen opposed a state holiday honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

As Virginia's governor, Allen issued a proclamation honoring Confederate History Month that contained no mention of slavery.

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Does this tend to make you think that George "Macaca" Allen is a racist?

Yes, that sounds suspiciously racist	11
No, that's not racist. Allen sounds like an ideal Republican presidential candidate	5
No.	4
Is David Duke running again?	1

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Yes, that sounds suspiciously racist
The growing pile of evidence certainly seems to suggest that.

by Cathexis on Mon Sep 25, 06 12:51pm [+]

Voted : Yes, that sounds suspiciously racist
Ahhhh, George. Can we send him somewhere? Say, Kirkuk? Maybe Lebanon, to broker a peace treaty there?

by Truthseeker013 on Mon Sep 25, 06 12:51pm [+]

Why am I suspicious of all these people from a candidate's earlier life? Does it put one in mind of the "Fast Boat" nonsence of the last presidential race? Yes it does. I don't like Allen, and I hope he's defeated, but raking up testimony from his past, from people who probably didn't like him, or are in the pay of interests who want him defeated, doesn't get it for me.

by margaret123 on Mon Sep 25, 06 1:25pm [+]

Voted : Yes, that sounds suspiciously racist
margaret123, check out ballot #100696. That incident happened a couple of weeks ago.

by mojo on Mon Sep 25, 06 2:14pm [+]

Voted : Yes, that sounds suspiciously racist
suspiciously racist?

if it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and lays duck eggs, guess what it is a duck!

MAG_bomb

might as well start wearing that sheet outside your closet, you've been outed! MAG_rofl

by LCD on Mon Sep 25, 06 2:43pm [+]

Careful, there are certain members of this forum who would argue that he wasnt racist and is just misunderstood and loves animals and small children.

by Steelhamster on Mon Sep 25, 06 3:15pm [+]

Voted : Yes, that sounds suspiciously racist
Yep

by skylab on Mon Sep 25, 06 7:32pm [+]

Voted : Yes, that sounds suspiciously racist
His macaca comment was brazen enough to convince me that he has hidden issues... not so hidden anymore.

by MO_ on Mon Sep 25, 06 7:44pm [+]

how credible is this story...Maybe the guy made it up.

by hurricane on Tue Sep 26, 06 7:55am [+]

^ The 'macaca' guy didn't make it up, that's for sure. It was all on videotape. George Allen is a scumbag; he repeatedy used the slur with a smirk on his ugly face. Thing is, he used that word in front of a crowd, it rolled off his tongue. I don't find it hard to believe he used (or uses) the n-word when he's around his buddies.

by mojo on Tue Sep 26, 06 9:37am [+]

^^, yep, he made the comments in a speech during a campaign rally... to a camera and a crowd. Look it up.

by MO_ on Tue Sep 26, 06 6:44pm [+]

Everyone else used the N word back then, I don't see what the big deal is about.

by piggie8 on Thu Jul 10, 08 9:20pm [+]

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