It is no secret that the Senator from the State of Virginia, George Allen, is a raciest of the highest order. He called a dark-skinned man, who was born in Virginia, a “Macaca” not to long ago, and then claimed that he made the word up (“Macaca” is a racial slur used in places like Tunisia to describe the “locals”, now you may say, “How would he know that? Well Allen is fluent in French, and his mother is from Tunisia). Well the glossy veneer that the raciest Allen has painted on is starting to chip, and boy are we seeing just how over-the-top raciest this man is.

The Nation has done a little digging, and unearthed a lot of Hate from Allen.

Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.

…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.

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.

Descended from the White Citizens’ Councils…the CCC is designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In its "Statement of Principles," the CCC declares, "We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races."

Lowell at Raising Kaine dug up some quotes that illustrate what, exactly, the CCC and their good friend Allen are all about.

*"Each of the three major races plays a distinct role in history. . . . The whites were the creators of civilization, the yellows its sustainers and copyists, the blacks its destroyers." (www.cofcc.org, 12/98)

*Abraham Lincoln was "surely the most evil American in history," and Martin Luther King was a "depraved miscreant." (www.cofcc.org, 12/98)

*"The Jews’ motto is ‘never forget, and never forgive.’ One can’t agree with the way they’ve turned spite into welfare billions for themselves, but the ‘never forget’ part is very sound." (Citizens Informer, Winter/97)

*"The presence [in Congress] of even one white person with our interests foremost in his mind is simply unacceptable to the issues-obsessed conservative race traitors. Texas Governor George Bush and his brother Jeb in Florida have manifested their self-hatred by embracing Hispanics ahead of whites. Somehow we must find a way to relieve whites of their self-hatred." ("Open Letter to White People," www.cofcc.org, 12/98)]

A Tip of the hat to the DailyKOS for finding these gems.

I live not to far from the DC area, and I work in Virginia, so I have been forced to watch his ads, and I will tell you this, he is not pointing out how much as a raciest son-of-a-bitch he is in NO.VA. I would also like to note that he started running his ads MONTHS ago, and would not say he is a Republican, odd.

Everyday Bush makes me SO proud that he is the "President". In Bush’s America we work to erase 50 years of equality because everyone knows black people do not vote Republican. If you do not vote Republican to Bush, you are not human. What next? Maybe some “Colored People” water fountains at the White House?

From the Shreport Times

Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.

The situation has outraged relatives of the black children who have filed a complaint with school officials.

Superintendent Kay Easley will meet with the family members in her office this morning.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also is considering filing a formal charge with the U.S. Department of Justice. NAACP District Vice President James Panell, of Shreveport, said he would apprise Justice attorneys of the situation this week. He’s considering asking for an investigation into the bus incident and other aspects of the school system’s operations, including pupil-teacher ratio as it relates to the numbers of white and black children, along with a breakdown of the numbers of black and white teachers employed.

"If the smoke is there, then there’s probably fire somewhere else," Panell said in a phone interview from New Orleans. "At this point, it is extremely alarming. We fought that battle 50 years ago, and we won. Why is this happening again?"

Easley would not comment much on the allegations Wednesday, saying it is a personnel issue. She acknowledged that she has investigated the claim. And she confirmed that the bus driver did not run her route Wednesday, nor would she today.

Asked if the driver would work for the rest of the year, Easley said, "I’m not going to answer the questions. "» You’re getting all that you’re going to get from me. I’m sorry."

Red River Elementary School Principal Jamie Lawrence tried to rectify the seating situation when it was brought to her attention. But it was ultimately handled at the Central Office, Patricia Sessoms said.

Sessoms aunt, Iva Richmond, is the mother of two of the children, ages 14 and 15, and foster parent to three others, ages 5, 6 and 10. Janice Williams, who is the mother of the other four children, is Richmond’s neighbor. All nine children catch the bus at a stop on Ashland Road.

This was by LibDemAlways at DU

In fact it goes back over 35 years to his days as a high school student in Palos Verdes Estates, CA.

So, for those of you for whom the George Allen "macaca" incident is an eye-opener into his character, let me provide a little background.

George was born in Whittier, CA in 1952. He grew up mostly in the California suburbs, except for a stint in the Chicago area when his father was head coach of the Chicago Bears. George entered Palos Verdes HS, in a wealthy community not far from LAX, in September of 1966. His father was head coach of the Los Angeles Rams, and the Allen family lived in a beautiful custom home modeled on a French chateau on an aptly named street called Via Panorama with a spectacular city/ocean view.

Because of his father’s celebrity, everyone knew who George Allen was at Palos Verdes High. He kept a low profile the first couple of years, but as a senior began to hang out with a kid from Texas named Deke. Also as a senior he began to drive a Ford wagon to school with a Confederate flag license rim and other Confederate flag stickers. He and Deke posed for their senior portraits wearing Confederate flag pins on their lapels.

Palos Verdes is a conservative, republican area and back then the school was 99.9% caucasion. Everyone knew about Allen’s apparent love of the Confederacy but just considered it an eccentricity. He became varsity QB senior year and dated one of the cheerleaders.

Palos Verdes HS had an exceptional basketball team that year, and made it into the league playoffs where a game against Morningside High was scheduled. Morningside was in a working class, predominently black area. Kids from Morningside lived a world away from the privileged PV students, and the PV kids tended to look down on those not from "the hill" as it was called locally.

The week of the game racist graffiti was spraypainted on the walls of Palos Verdes HS. It was anti-white (along the lines of "Die Whitey" "Fuck Whitey") intended to look like the work of Morningside students. Because the Morningside team name "Monarchs" was misspelled, and because of Allen’s well-known bigotry, he was fingered almost immediately. He was forced to publically apologize over the school PA and was suspended for a time.

Allen went on to UCLA in the Fall of 70, and in 71 moved to Virginia when his dad became Redskins Coach.

Ryan Lizza of The New Republic wrote a well-researched, exhaustive article chronicling Allen’s lifelong love of the Confederacy published last April called "Pin Prick." Well worth reading. Lizza interviwed classmates (though not me) who corroborated the graffiti story, as did a former school administrator. Lizza confronted Allen with the yearbook photo and the graffiti incident. He admitted the graffiti, but denied it was racist. He also admitted he was wearing a Confederate flag pin, but couldn’t remember why. Said it might have something to do with "youthful rebellion." He said he couldn’t remember the Confederate flag stickers on his car, but hedged his bets by saying they might have been there.

As an adult Allen went on to display a noose in his law office, and a Confederate flag on the living room of a cabin he owned. He proclaimed Confederate Heritage Month as Virginia Governor and opposed legislation honoring MLK. All of this is well documented in print.

"Macaca" is a telling slip-up by a guy who, until now, has kept up a veneer of respectibility in his political life. But it’s part of a pattern - one going back decades - one that Jim Webb has a unique opportunity to explore and reveal.

Allen is a guy who enjoys slipping his racism under the radar. He named his only son Forrest. Gen. Nathan Forrest was a slave owning Confederate General responsible for atrocities against black union troops, and not coincidentally, an early Grand Wizard of the KKK. I have no doubt this wasn’t a happy accident. This is the real George Allen, the one who had no problem insulting a young man of Indian descent in public, the one who scrawled "Die Whitey" on a school wall to incite racial tension, the one who has no business being a US Senator.