'allen's big mouth haunts him again' Teammates: Allen used "N-word" in

[rpannier]

college.

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."

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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.

full article can be found at:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/24/allen_football/

[Erika]

1. This guy doesn't like Blacks, Macaca's or Jews

But he's a right wing Christian extremist. So much for the Republican party as moderates.

[MADem]

2. Disgusting bastard, isn't he?

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...

[wiley]

3. George Allen is going down.

Next he'll claim football injuries as the reason his soul is a rotten decayed slab

[Jack Rabbit]

4. As far as I'm concerned, there's only one George Allen

SportsEncyclopedia

[rpannier]

5. Kind of amazing isn't it???

While Coach Allen was a fairly conservative guy, no one who has ever played for him or (as far as I know) has known him has ever said that Coach Allen ever uttered a racist comment in his life.

I'd like to know how come senator allen ia such a wretched embarrassment.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. If he had those sentiments, he was smart enough to keep them to himself

Allen would never have been a great football coach expressing those kinds of thoughts freely.

His son is going to have learn that the hard way.

[1932]

7. NPR's weekend edition ran an offensive story yesterday about this trying

to make it sound like it was religious bigotry to ask if the guy if his mother is Jewish.

They accepted as a fact that Allen didn't know his mother was Jewish (which I do NOT believe), and talked about how Jewish families protect their children from the awful memories of the Holacaust by not telling their children they are Jewish, and implied that it was rude of people to force these families to tell their kids the truth.

Ugh!

If they're going to run with that story, I want to hear Allen's mother say herself that she never told her kids for that reason.

The story was so speculative, and they spent so much time developing a story based on so few facts, it was unbelievable.

And they never once talked about the implication of Allen saying that asking him if his mother was Jewish was, disparaging, as if it were, in Allen's mind, bad to be Jewish.

And, oh, the irony. A racist and a religious bigot whose mother is Jewish and from Africa. What a guy.

[tk2kewl]

8. .

[Catchawave]

9. "Felix Macacwitz"

My bad :rofl: