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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 08:31 PM

    Videotaping the race card being played... is definitely better than playing it

    Would that there were dozens more progressives of color willing to follow around a GOP (or GOP-lite) candidate and videotape their appearances. And their constitutents, too, where appropriate.

    It's a little bit too much to ask, of course-- who could have the stomach for it, day in and day out-- but it would surely have an impact. And it would reveal Mehlman's GOP diversity plan as the shell game it really is.

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