Wonder if the campaign bus horn plays "Dixie"?
They should at least get their stories straight.
Allen, who is positioning himself for a possible run for president in 2008, said the name was "just made up" and that he had no idea that macaca is a genus of monkeys including macaques. The name also could be spelled Makaka, which is a city in South Africa.It's been reported that the term is also a derrogatory French-Tunisian term for blacks or dark skinned people. Allen's mother is French-Tunisian.
On Monday, Allen spokesman Dick Wadhams said the name "Macaca" was a variation of "Mohawk," the nickname Allen campaign staffers gave Sidarth for his partially cropped haircut. Allen, however, said Tuesday that he made up the name himself.
Allen has been accused of racial insensitivity before. He wore a Confederate flag pin in his high school yearbook photo, used to keep a Confederate flag in his living room, a noose in his law office and a picture of Confederate troops in his governor's office, but has said he has grown since then.
Click here to listen to Allen's campaign bus.
And can you really take anything a guy named "Dick Wadhams" says seriously? Is that his porn name or his real name? Must have had a fun adolescence with everyone dropping the last syllable. That's the sort of thing that could trigger the thinly veiled bigotry and urge to blame "others" that attracts so many to the Republican party.
I think I would have gone by Richard, just the same.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 8/18/2006
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There was a wonderful joke about this on The Daily Show. Ending with the phrase...Mepeeepee. Racism has been a part of the Republican agenda for ages. Subtly or Overtly. Now, it simply masks itself as classism (poor people are poor because they suck). Every now and then, though, like Mel Gibson when he's had a few, the truth comes through. Not that ALL republicans are racist, but that most racists are republicans.
Nico,
People used to sacrifice virgins to the gods too. What's your freaking point?
The fact that southern Dems used to be racist creeps proves... what again?
The statement you think you refuted is still absolutely true. Not all Republicans are racist, but nearly all racists are Republican.
Including yourself, evidently.
Just how much longer are you going to trot out that lame and completely irrelevant fact that the south used to be Democratic, and racist?
Don't you realize that it proves the point that the Republican party is the party of racists?
Tell me Nico, just what was it that caused all those southern RACIST Democrats to switch parties?
What did the Democratic party do that made those southern racists who defended segregation and lynching leave the party and go to the welcoming arms of the Republican party?
Come on... I want to hear it from you, since you apparently know your history.
Nico,
Nice tapdance.
First of all, no one asked why people are predjudiced, but thank for the interesting thoughts on the matter.
Secondly, I find it amusing that you can manage to produce an answer as to why Thurmond and all the other virulent racist southern Dems bolted the party and went to the Republicans while never mentioning the real cause.
You suggest it wasn't until Reagan or because of the New Deal.
Wrong-o.
It was, as literally everyone who has any notion of recent history is aware, because of the fact that the Democratic party adopted a position of racial equality, PERIOD.
The racists therefore went where they were welcome, the Republican party.
Interesting how you could manage to omit that incredibly obvious fact.
You dance like Barishnikov, I must admit.
You equivocate saying that everyone is predjudiced, etc.
That may be true, but the fact remains that those who are strongly and overtly racist are ALL Republican stalwarts and a very active element within the party.
Republican poltiicians still go and speak to former white surpremacist organizations like the former White Citizens Council.
The pay lip service to confederate whackos who still aren't over the Civil War, and others who would love nothing better than to go back to the Jim Crow days.
As Trent Lott famously said, he felt that if Strom Thurmond would have won when he ran for the presidency on a strict segregation forever platform, as Trent put it, "the country would have been a lot better off!"
You can dance and shuck and jive all you want Nico, but you can't deny the fact that the Republican party is the party of racists, either overt or otherwise.
Are there predjudiced people in the Democratic party? Most certainly. But does the Democratic party strictly uphold racial equality as one of their basic values? Absolutely.
Not so for the Republicans.
Bush is the first president in history to have refused to even address the NAACP, which he did for 5 years until finally showing up this year.
Everyone knows who the racist party is, including blacks, who support Bush at the rate of around 3%.
They're not stupid.
I can't believe you'd actually try to deny that it's a fact that not all Republicans are racists, but nearly all racists are Republican.
I think some racists don't vote. just how many racists are Democrats is difficult to determine. So the statement that nearly all racists are Republicans, should probably read. "Nearly all racist Republicans vote."
Joe Lieberman recently has been pointing out that Jesse Jackson and Rev. Sharpton are backing Lamont. Is he pandering to racist Republicans,Democrats and Indeopendent racists? Of course, the non voting racists ( such as those in the Aryan Nation,KKK and other similar organizations) may decide to vote for someone who meets their standards by pointing out Lieberman's candidate is favored by African Americans and therefore is not worthy of votes.
In this 21st century it is a shame that we Americans must still discuss rascism in our country. May the new leaders be blessed with peace, understnding and compassion for all humans on this planet.
Nico,
A description of the difference between the parties I heard recently is that, in general, the Democats value people more highly while the Republicans value property.
Seems to be a valid observation.
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