Va. Senator (Allen) Who Used Slur Declines Award

[Kadie]

Va. Senator Who Used Slur Declines Award
By BOB LEWIS
The Associated Press
Friday, September 1, 2006; 8:50 AM

RICHMOND, Va. -- A senator who had singled out an Indian man at a campaign event and referred to him as "Macaca" declined a leadership award from a minority scholarship fund Thursday after donors protested his selection.

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund donors had threatened to withhold contributions if Sen. George Allen, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, received the fund's Community Leadership Award.

"The foundation told the senator that they've been catching a lot of static from members and some of their donors, and before it spins into a week of controversy, we just decided to decline it," Allen spokesman John Reid said.

Allen's decision came almost three weeks after he singled out a Virginia-born college student of Indian descent in a mostly white crowd at a campaign rally and twice applied the name "Macaca" to him.

Macaca is a genus of monkeys that includes macaques, and is also considered a racial slur in some parts of the world.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090100438.html?nav=rss_nation/special

[DRoseDARs]

1. Singled out an Indian man? Who the fuck are they talking about?

Last I checked the man Sen. Allen used the racial slur against was, unlike him, a born-and-raised Virginian. :shrug:

[zbdent]

2. The man was easy to spot

being the only "darkie" in the room awash with pasty-white "European-descent" Repukes ...

[walkon]

3. You are correct.

And it is stated clearly right there in the article. So, how can an Indian man be born and raised in Virginia? Maybe AP has some formula for this.