George Allen: Racist or Politics' Answer to Dante of "Clerks"?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Boss Foxx, Aug 18, 2006.

  1. Boss Foxx I piss excellence. Registered Senior Member

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    Long story, short...

    Sen. George Allen, during a campaign rally, singled out a volunteer to his political opponent, James Webb, and called the guy "Macaca". It was caught by the volunteer's camcorder, as Allen called the Indian-American, S.R. Siddarth, (born in Virginia himself) the name twice and welcomed him to the "real world" of America and Virginia.

    Turns out, however, that the term "Macaca" is a racial slur. Allen insists that it wasn't meant as a racial slur, as the media is having a bit of a field day with it. His people are claiming that it was not racial, but a play on the term "mohawk". Newt Gingrich is coming to Allen's defense by saying that one of his staff who speaks Spanish tells him that "Micaca" means clown.

    Frankly, I find it even more entertaining how these guys are scrambling to make excuses for the guy than I do of the actual uttering of the words. Anyone else heard about this?
     
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  3. Blackrain Registered Senior Member

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    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1931661

    Anyone who champions the Confederate Flag really hates their country. We have one Flag. Just like we have one language. /Republican Logic on.. And If you don't like the Flag our brave men have died for. Then by all means leave the fucking Country. /Republican Logic off

    Cough, well, that's what the Repubs tell me if I dare disagree with their Dictator in Chief.
     
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  5. Genji Registered Senior Member

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    I saw this. Allen was standing next to vile Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum so I'm not surprised.
     
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  7. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    WHAAAAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAA!!
     
  8. Neildo Gone Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah, I busted a gut as well, LoL!

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  9. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    George Allen is exactly what we've come to expect of Republicans. The future's so dim, oh, hell ....
     
  10. D'ster Registered Senior Member

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    Civil Rights Leader Quits Wal-Mart Group Due To Published Remarks

    POSTED: 8:25 am PDT August 18, 2006

    LOS ANGELES -- Civil rights leader Andrew Young said he would resign as head of a Wal-Mart advocacy group because of remarks he made in an interview with a Los Angeles newspaper about Jewish, Asian and Arab business owners.

    Young, 74, has been lobbying minority groups and civic leaders to accept Wal-Mart stores, a relationship that has drawn criticism from other African American leaders.

    In an interview published Thursday in the Los Angeles Sentinel, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was asked about the retailer's role in displacing mom-and-pop stores.

    "Well, I think they should; they ran the 'mom-and-pop' stores out of my neighborhood," he told the Sentinel, the oldest black-owned weekly newspaper in the West.

    "But, you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us -- selling us stale bread, and bad wilted vegetables," the Sentinel quoted Young as saying.

    "And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs. Very few black people own these stores."

    http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9700441/detail.html
     
  11. Boss Foxx I piss excellence. Registered Senior Member

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    Wal-Mart is pure evil, so that wouldn't surprise me in the least.

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    Take away the racial slurs though, and the guy does make a point about "Mom & Pop" shops. There are a lot around my area that are selling stale bread, wilted vegetables, and expired milk. Thankfully, I can avoid Wal-Mart still by shopping at the regional franchise stores.
     
  12. D'ster Registered Senior Member

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    Your hypocrisy is classic.
     
  13. Boss Foxx I piss excellence. Registered Senior Member

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    At least something about me is classic.

    Out of curiousity though, what about my statements is rich with hypocrisy? I decry a guy on his apparent racial slurs in one post and then complain "Mom & Pop" shops in another. Where's the connection that denotes a contradiction of some sort?
     
  14. Blackrain Registered Senior Member

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    Hey Boss, notice how D'ster called you a hypocrit. But I haven't seen D'ster condem Allens remarks. And I'm condeming the comments from Andrew Young. That's not the words that should be utterd by a civil rights leader. He was right to resign.
     
  15. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Take away the racial slurs, indeed .... I agree, but will go so far as to add the point that the racial slurs are only for his own satisfaction, which distracts from the genuine point. To the other, Wal-Mart sells crappy products, too. With all that effort dedicated to inventory control, one would think WM could one-up the mom & pop stores, but no ... the lowest common denominator is the American way.

    Hence, politicians like George Allen or the current presidential administration. I mean, look at what happens to bright minds like Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell; it would seem the Bush administration is helping out the racists by having women and minorities be complete idiots. We can always blame their blackness, eh? Or the fact that Margaret Spellings is a woman? How about Spellings' predecessor calling teachers terrorists? The racists can always blame his skin color.

    Let's hear it for diversity, eh?
     
  16. D'ster Registered Senior Member

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    George Allen said some stupid shit.
    Andrew Young did not resign as a civil rights leader.
     
  17. Michael 歌舞伎 Valued Senior Member

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    I suppose it depends on what you consider quality food. There is no way Wall-Mart is going to bring in fresh vegetables that haven’t been sprayed with some chemical to remain unwilted. I go to a small mom-and-pop vegetable store where the lettuce is still weeping from where is was cut a just half an hour before.

    As I lecture to medical students I occasionally stumble upon quirky little medical studies. Example, frogs that have three legs and deformed genital due to the pollutants seeping into their skin, the fact that all Americans are now born with some toxins in their blood and that most American males, much like their amphibian neighbors, have a anus that has significantly shifted anatomically.


    I think I’ll take wilted cabbage and slightly dehydrated oranges any day over chemically induced crispy cabbage and bright red-orange delicious looking oranges that are still green on the inside.

    Michael
     
  18. android nothing human inside Registered Senior Member

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    You people are morons.
     

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