Macaca Boy pisses off Sons of Confederate Veterans

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Now, Even Allen's Apologies Are Getting Him in Trouble
Sons of Confederate Veterans Is the Most Recent Group Offended by Senator's Comments

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 29, 2006; B01

RICHMOND, Sept. 28 -- Sen. George Allen can't seem to win: first, he apologizes for addressing an Indian American with a racial slur and acknowledges that many view the Confederate flag as a hate symbol. Now, the Sons of Confederate Veterans want him to apologize, too.

As he fights Democrat James Webb for a second term in the Senate, Allen has spent the last six weeks battling charges of racism after calling a young Indian American man "macaca" and later being accused of having used a racial epithet toward blacks.

He has vehemently denied ever using the "N-word." He has apologized profusely for saying "macaca." And he has insisted that he has moved far beyond his youthful admiration of controversial symbols like the battle flag. "What I was slow to appreciate and wish I had understood much sooner," Allen told a black audience last month, "is that this symbol . . . is, for black Americans, an emblem of hate and terror, an emblem of intolerance and intimidation."

Now, even that statement is getting him into trouble. "He's apologizing to others, certainly he should apologize to us as well," said B. Frank Earnest Sr., the Virginia commander of the confederate group at a news conference. "We're all aware, ourselves included, of the statements that got him into this. The infamous macaca statement. He's using our flag to wipe the muck from his shoes that he's now stepped in."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801835_pf.html

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1. Macaca is a character out of a bad political Hollywood B movie

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2. SCV has counter-protested at Klan rallies lately

over associating the stars&bars with racism.

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3. "He's using our flag . . ."

Aw, it's gettin' so's the bigots can't even trust each other anymore! Guy walks, talks, and looks like one of "us," then you find out he's a Hymie, and he won't even stand up for his own race anymore. It's a damn shame, isn't Mistuh Earnest?

And George Felix only found out a month ago that some Americans--whoops, make that some black Americans, not "real" Americans like George Felix--consider the Confederate flag to be an emblem of intolerance and intimidation? He's not only a bigot and a coward, he's a liar too. And not a very good one at that.