George Allen's college football teammates
told Salon that they observed him regularly engaging in racist behavior. He used the 'n-word' to refer to his black teammates, said that he liked Virginia because "blacks knew their place," and gave a KKK-inspired nickname of "Wizard" to another teammate. He also stuffed a deer head in a black family's mailbox--a hate crime.
This should end Allen's bid for Senate and his presidential aspirations.
A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign, separately claimed that Allen used the word "nigger" to describe blacks. "It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used," the teammate said.
George Felix Allen, Jr.: Thrown out of California because he was too racist. He's too racist for Virginia, too. Let's throw him out of the US Senate!
Two of the teammates were afraid of retaliation. One brave man, Ken Shelton, a white radiologist and former tight end, went on the record and started jotting down his thoughts.
Let's stop disgusting racist George Allen from spreading his filth in our nation's capitol. Donate to Webb now!
Should
George Allen, who
committed a hate crime be allowed to set foot in the Senate chamber? Read what he did, and decide if you would let him in your home:
Shelton said he also remembers a disturbing deer hunting trip with Allen on land that was owned by the family of Billy Lanahan, a wide receiver on the team. After they had killed a deer, Shelton said he remembers Allen asking Lanahan where the local black residents lived. Shelton said Allen then drove the three of them to that neighborhood with the severed head of the deer. "He proceeded to take the doe's head and stuff it into a mailbox," Shelton said.
Allen's confederate flag -- his noose -- 'macaca' -- all of it not a coincidence but the sign of a man who hates black people (and all non-whites) so much he can't hide it. He cannot escape his past, and we cannot let him represent Virginia.
To
refresh your memory:
Allen wore a Confederate flag pin on his lapel in his 1970 graduation picture from a Southern California high school. He hung a noose from a plant in his Charlottesville law office in the 1980s and a Confederate flag inside his home. As governor in the mid-1990s, he alienated some by signing a resolution that designated a Confederate history month in Virginia but did not acknowledge the evils of slavery.
Now we know what those mean.
Allen, 54, said he did not see racial overtones in the Confederate flag.
Liar.
He said he was a rebellious youth and viewed the banner as a "symbol against authority."
Liar.
Reached Monday evening, Allen said that the word had no derogatory meaning for him and that he was sorry. "I would never want to demean him as an individual. I do apologize if he's offended by that. That was no way the point." Asked what macaca means, Allen said: "I don't know what it means." He said the word sounds similar to "mohawk," a term that his campaign staff had nicknamed Sidarth because of his haircut. Sidarth said his hairstyle is a mullet -- tight on top, long in the back.
Liar.
Allen, in his speech Tuesday, said: "I've learned a valuable lesson about the power of words, about how words carelessly chosen, or in my case, even made up, can have a totally unintended meaning and impact for another person from another background or from a different cultural perspective."
Liar. A racist his whole life and a dishonorable man. Let's show our thanks to his former teammates who showed us the hate that motivates George Felix Allen Jr, and honor their bravery in speaking up. Putting his name on these charges is amazing, especially considering that two former teammates could not--because they are afraid of G. Felix Allen's bully tactics. Whistleblowers like Ken Shelton are what make this country great, and he's going to get swiftboated post haste. We cannot let his effort go to waste--by making sure that Jim Webb becomes the next US Senator from Virginia!
Donate to Webb now! Get George Allen, a man who committed a hate crime out of the US Senate.
[update:] Check out
this diary by BB10 and watch Allen non-deny his participation in a picture with a KKK-allied group