The Mark of Macaca
Neo-confederate = paleo-bigot. George Felix Allen Jr. can run, but he can't hide from his inner racist. If you knew nothing about someone but the following:
- He wrote glowng paens to southern "citizens" groups opposed to integration.
- He opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
- He opposed the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
- He displayed a noose and the Stars and Bars in his office.
- Declared April (the month Lincoln was shot & Fort Sumter was attacked, starting the civil war) "Confederate History and Heritage Month."
- Defended Trent Lott after his Strom Thurmond gaffe--at least until he realized Lott had become a radioactively hot potato.
- Called a dark-skinned American a "monkey" at a public campaign event.
would you suspect they just might have a white robe with a pointed hood in their closet?
NAH....tinfoil hat moonbats!
Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen
In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, 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.Technorati Tags: George Felix Allen Jr., George Allen, Macaca, bigot, neo-confederate
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.
