It's over for Allen: NYT : he made racist comments about black Redskins

[Captain Hilts]

Specifically, Larry Brown.

In Northern VA you DON'T diss Larry Brown.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/us/politics/27allen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print

[rocktivity]

1. And we haven't even BEGUN to tally up his ANTI-SEMETIC remarks!

:rofl:
rocknation

[savemefromdumbya]

2. he'll get the W white supremist vote then?

[BrotherBuzz]

36. I think he lost some of them when they found out....

about his Jewish connection.

Fundy wacko KKK Christian types subscribe to the same belief most Orthodox and Conservative Jewish authorities adhere to: According to most Orthodox and Conservative authorities, a Jew is a person who has a Jewish mother, or who converted to Judaism under appropriate rabbinic authority.

[savemefromdumbya]

38. then he'll have to rely on old ladies vote?

[Captain Hilts]

3. His old man certainly wasn't a racist. Did he think that being racist..

is how you fit in in the South?

No, it's not. Isn't this an insult to Southerners?

What a shmuck.

[sandnsea]

6. How do you know?

You don't know what his father said behind closed doors. His mother apparently felt comfortable enough to use the word macaca to the extent that lil Georgie learned it.

[Captain Hilts]

8. By all accounts he treated them with respect...

and appointed them to leadership positions on the team and coaching staff.

This point suggests that he was not a racist.

Who knows for sure? You can't prove a negative.

[sandnsea]

15. Not really

I know lots of racists who understand that the law requires equal job placment, etc. And he obviously had to treat his team with respect if he was going to be successful as a coach. That doesn't mean anything at all. Most white racists keep their racism behind closed doors and have for a very long time.

[Captain Hilts]

16. True.

But, again, how do we prove a negative?

We can't. I've read enough about the team, etc. to give the coach the benefit of the doubt. But, no, I can't say definitively he was not a racist. I'm just basing my opinion on what I've read.

Allen, jr. spent a lot of time at the team's practice facility and on the sidelines, so his remarks could be solely his own impressions rather than second hand from dad.

And I'll come clean here that I didn't like Allen as a coach because of the way he treated Sonny Jurgensen. That's STILL a sore spot.

[sandnsea]

19. You said "certainly wasn't a racist"

And I said you can't know that, which you now agree that no one can definitively say he wasn't a racist. I only said that there was enough racism in the household for George to learn the word macaca, so that combined with the rest of George's antics would indicate to me that there may have been more going on with Coach Allen than met the eye.

[Captain Hilts]

20. There's no evidence...

the coach was a racist. I'm pretty certain he wasn't and I don't even like the guy.

Let's credit George jr. with becoming a racist by choice.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. Amen!

[MessiahRp]

4. This is a guy with a confederate flag in his office isn't it?

Why didn't anyone pounce on his racism the first time he ran? It seems extremely blatant with this guy. I suppose he has to wear a Klansman outfit for people to finally get it.

Rp

[Captain Hilts]

5. This state almost elected Oliver North. Man, it was close! nt

[Zynx]

17. To be fair, that was 1994 and Chuck Robb would have been crushed

by anyone else that year.

[underpants]

23. Sen.Warner got Marshall Coleman to run to siphon off votes from North

it worked. Thank God.

[napi21]

9. I don't know how true it is, but yesterday I heard several

reporters on TV saying that Va. USED to be alot more "southern" than it is today. Believe me, there's still a LOT of racism and prejudice in todays South, no matter what the media of the gov't tries to tell you.

I'm a WF from Pa. who moved to SC almost 20 years ago. I lived therefor 6 years, then moved to TX for 6 years & then to GA where I live now. Here in GA, Dems have lost elections and control of the State because they took the image of the Confederate flag off the state flag! Those folks will tell you thy aren't against integration, but Damn it, they want THEIR history back on THEIR FLAG! I believe in both Ga & VA things are getting better. There are many more people from other places moving in and bringing theirbetter ideas with them. However, in the rural parts of each state, the old ideas still persist!

[Captain Hilts]

12. True. I was a Norfolker, a city crawling with Yankee carpetbaggers.

Of which I was one.

I had the misfortune to live in SC for two years in the early 70s. It was a racist bog and I hated every minute.

[Fluffdaddy]

26. insightful post . Now only if we can take 1 or 2 "southern" States in 08

"I believe in both Ga & VA things are getting better. There are many more people from other places moving in and bringing their better ideas with them."

[LynneSin]

10. And a Noose

He said it was some sort of 'old west' motiff

I think of a Noose I think of the thousands of minorities hung in the South back before the civil rights movement for nothing more than perhaps looking at a white girl

I find nothing 'old west' about a noose

[grasswire]

33. he called it a "little ol' noose"

A sort of affectionate way of pretending it was unimportant.

[spag68]

11. Don't forget the

miniature hangman's noose.

[underpants]

22. That just means that he is "tough on crime"

I'm not kidding that was the talking point I read it in a Kathleen Parker column a few months ago.

PLEASE don't ask what I was doing reading her pointless column but she did say that.

[Stevendsmith]

25. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dr. Pepper all over my monitor! (n/t)

[underpants]

27. Link

Allen ain't nothin' but a hot dog


Lizza and others have pointed to other "signs" suggestive of Allen's "race problem," such as a Confederate flag he used to display in his home that was part of a flag collection. Allen also had a noose hanging from a ficus tree in his law office that was part of his Western collection and symbolic of his tough attitude toward crime.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=allen_aint_nothin_but_a_hot_dog&ns=KathleenParker&dt=04/28/2006&page=2

[MidwestTransplant]

13. Don't forget about the noose next to the flag.

[MidwestTransplant]

14. Don't forget about the noose next to the flag.

[Imagevision]

7. Racist Allen is a disgrace to his party...

[DeepModem Mom]

18. Actually, I wonder how many of today's extremist Republicans...

have similar in their backgrounds, if we knew the truth. I have a friend in Mississippi who says the whole rise of the Republican party in the South was based on racism -- and I think it's a factor elsewhere.

[Captain Hilts]

21. Yes, that's what Lyndon Johnson predicted when he signed the Civil...

Rights Act.

And Ol' Lyndon was right.

[kath]

28. Your friend and LBJ were absolutely right- "the whole rise of the

Republican party in the South WAS based on racism"

When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, he remarked after signing the Act, "We have lost the South for a generation."

[bmbmd]

35. Lester Mattox

and other "Dixiecrats" led the mass migration of the angry white male to the southern Republican party.

[Zhade]

24. The name of the team itself is racist!

NT!

[Captain Hilts]

29. Actually,

80% of Native Americans don't think so.

In fact, some school football teams use the name.

Yes, on first glance, it does sound kind of racist. The Braves and Indians have racist logos. But, most Native Americans have no problem with the logos of the Chicago BlackHawks or the Redskins.

But it's NOTHING to do with human pelts.

[Stinky The Clown]

31. Can you give a pertinent snip of the Time article

Some of us choose not to register on that or any site.

[sutz12]

32. Well for a white southerner who grew up in the 60's & 70's....

to claim that he never used the infamous "N-word" strains the credulity of even the most dedicated freepers.

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

34. He grew up in California.

He moved to Virginia when his dad became coach of Washington and, being of college age, he went to UVA.

[Captain Hilts]

37. Excerpt from NYT article.

Mrs. Hawkins, who described herself as a rural Virginia housewife and an active Democrat, said in an interview Tuesday that she heard Mr. Allen use the slur repeatedly at a party on election night in 1976. She said Mr. Allen used the term while deprecating the intelligence of the black players on the Washington Redskins football team, which Mr. Allen’s father coached. Recalling remarks about its star running back, Larry Brown, Mrs. Hawkins said that Mr. Allen “started in effect bad-mouthing him, saying what a shiftless you-know-what” he was.

She said she remembered the conversation because she was a big fan of the team and was shocked. She said Mr. Allen’s statement on Monday was “just plain a lie.”

Mr. Wadhams said the encounter “did not happen.” He said that Mr. Allen remained “very good friends” with Mr. Brown and that as governor of Virginia, Mr. Allen had appointed Mr. Brown to the board of visitors at George Mason University.