Allen's long racist history

[dajoki]

The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060911/george_allen

article | posted August 29, 2006 (web only)
Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen
Max Blumenthal




Barnstorming around Virginia in the re-election campaign that Republican Senator George Allen hopes will provide the impetus for his 2008 run for the presidency, he has suddenly been forced on the defensive. Time and again, he has felt compelled to explain that his mocking of S.R. Sidarth, a young Indian-American staff member for his Democratic opponent, as "macaca," or monkey, was an unintentional gaffe. "It was a mistake. I made a mistake," he told a reporter from a local NBC affiliate at a campaign stop on Thursday. Hours later, he told the ABC affiliate, "It was a mistake, I was wrong." On Fox News's Sean Hannity show, he echoed, "It was a mistake."

But was it an isolated "mistake"?

Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, http://www.cofcc.org/ the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.

In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, http://www.cpac.org/ an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations, he strode to a booth at the entrance of the exhibition hall festooned with two large Confederate flags--a booth operated by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), at the time a co-sponsor of CPAC. After speaking with CCC founder and former White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum and two of his cohorts, Allen suggested that they pose for a photograph with then-National Rifle Association spokesman and actor Charlton Heston. The photo appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the CCC's newsletter, the Citizens Informer.

According to Baum, Allen had not naively stumbled into a chance meeting with unfamiliar people. He knew exactly who and what the CCC was about and, from Baum's point of view, was engaged in a straightforward political transaction. "It helped us as much as it helped him," Baum told me. "We got our bona fides." And so did Allen.


Descended from the White Citizens' Councils that battled integration in the Jim Crow South, the CCC is designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In its "Statement of Principles, "http://www.cofcc.org/manifest.htm the CCC declares, "We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races."

[marmar]

1. Allen is an old-school, turn-of-the-century 'Bama-style racist...

:scared:

[dajoki]

8. All they need are...

pointy white hats and robes.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. That pretty much ensures his nomination.

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[dajoki]

3. But not election n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Depends

on whose software is running in the voting machines.

"Faux Nooz declares the winner, with 0.5% of the precincts reporting, George Allen, with a projected 350 electoral votes."

[dajoki]

6. Very true n/t

[Wesin04]

5. Nomination?

He's the only GOP running for Senate in VA. Are you referring to the 08 nomination for President?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Yes.

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