AP Allen meets with Indian PAC over remark

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_el_se/allen_campaign_volunteer

Allen meets with Indian PAC over remark

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago

ARLINGTON, Va. - Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) met Wednesday with Indian-American political leaders concerned that he referred to a rival's campaign staffer as "Macaca" and told the Virginia native of Indian descent, "Welcome to America."


Members of the US Indian Political Action Committee said they have received hundreds of e-mails about the comments Allen made Friday at a speech that S.R. Sidarth was videotaping for his Democratic challenger, Jim Webb.

"Obviously this is something that has us very, very concerned," said Sonjay Puri, a northern Virginia businessman and founder and director of the PAC, which claims 30,000 members. "The remarks are very insensitive."

Sidarth and others consider the remark offensive. Macaca is a genus of monkeys including macaques, but Allen has said he just made up a word that sounds similar to "Mohawk," a nickname Allen staffers gave Sidarth because of his partially cropped hair..

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Apparently allen's parents didn't teach him that calling people

names is generally a bad idea.

[orwell]

2. Well then I guess Allen is a bigot...

...I meant to say midget, a name I give him because of his tiny amount of brain cells...

[onehandle]

3. ...where he prompty chanted...

..."hiya hiya hiya hiya"

Allen, in his defense, thought he was meeting with Native Americans.

[Cha]

4. allen's sister thinks he is a "bigot

and a Bully"!

snip~

Sen George (Macaca) Allen's SISTER: 'My Brother Is A Bully & A Bigot'
GOP Senator George Allen's Sister Documents Her Brother's Bully Tactics:
"He Saw Dentistry As A Perfect Profession - Getting Paid To Make People Suffer"...
Huffington Post | Posted August 16, 2006

Senator George Allen’s racial remark to a 20 year old Indian man last week, has re-highlighted accusations that the Senator is a bully and a bigot. Senator Allen’s sister, Jennifer Allen, documents many cases of her brother’s bullying in her book Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter."

Read the excerpts below:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1920983

[Dr.Phool]

5. He is getting paid to make people suffer.

[struggle4progress]

6. A New Explanation For "Macaca?"

... According to two Republicans who heard the word used, "macaca" was a mash-up of "Mohawk," referring to Sidarth's distinctive hair, and "caca," Spanish slang for excrement, or "shit."

Said one Republican close to the campaign: "In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance." Allen, according to Republicans, heard members of his traveling entourage and Virginia Republicans use the phrase and picked it up.
It was the first word that came to his mind when he spied Sidarth at the weekend's event, according to Republicans who have been briefed on Allen's version of the event ... http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_explanant_2.html

Oh, no racism here! Allen and his peeps just happen to think Indians are shitheads ...

[tinfoilinfor2005]

7. Hey, Allen, with a face like a pig's ass...

What? You say that sounded like pig's ass? No, no. What I actually said was Allen, the guy who caught a big bass. Cuzzzzz, I read somewhere that once he caught a big bass. Yeah, that's it. Why I would never do anything ever to offend this fine honest upstanding gentleman.



:rofl: :rofl:

[varun]

8. The Indian kid wants Allen to apologize to him privately...

And Allen should do it.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1770173,00050001.htm

"...Sidarth himself said he felt Allen was singling him out because he was the only non-white in the audience. "If he wants to make an apology, he can talk to me personally rather than doing this through the press," he said.

[Virginia Dare]

9. The young man is actually an American born citizen...

of Indian descent. And I agree he should apologize.

:hi:

[Virginia Dare]

10. What lies will he spout today?...n/t

[leesa]

11. Funny how he would scurry over to an Indian PAC for a slur he didn't

commit...it's almost like he did something wrong. After all, 'Mohawk' is sooooo close to 'Macaca'