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I am somewhat suspicious that Allen honestly made up a word and said it - with no intention of that word being racist. I am even sympathic with the harassment he was feeling being videotaped at every stop by the other side. That would not be pleasant. I have been videotaped during activist work by the conservatives and I did not like it. Where he want wrong was in telling the young man "welcome to America." That was clearly racist and assuming that his audience was mostly white, it seems like he was trying to turn the audience against the young man (and play into their phobias) in a racist fashion.
