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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Stepping in "macaca"

With his Confederate-flag-draped past, Sen. George Allen is in trouble for using a term for monkeys -- and racial slur elsewhere in the world -- to ridicule a dark-skinned man at a campaign rally.
By Michael Scherer

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  • Tuesday, August 15, 2006 09:26 PM

    George Allen

    Back in the 1920s the KKK was very respectable, until the unpleasantries in Indiana showed everybody what was really behind the smiling Klansmen (sorry, couldn't see their smiles behind those hoods).

    George Allen, non-native Virginian, would have been a KKK member and leader, Grand Imperial Macacca, or something.

    Today he's just another bigot strutting around in cowboy boots, who denies he's a bigot. Sounds like another slick politician who never had sex with that woman.

    Sincerely,

    NATIVE Virginian

    —Clark Thomas

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