Professor Joins Others In Claiming Sen. Allen Used Racial Epithets...

[im10ashus]

Professor Joins Others In Claiming Sen. Allen Used Racial Epithets To Describe Black People...

RICHMOND, Va. (Sept. 26) - A noted political scientist joined one of Sen. George Allen's former college football teammates in claiming the senator used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s, a claim Allen dismisses as "ludicrously false."

Larry J. Sabato, one of Virginia's most-quoted political science professors and a classmate of Allen's in the early 1970s, said in a televised interview Monday that Allen used the epithet.

Sabato's assertion came on the heels of accusations by Dr. Ken Shelton, a radiologist who was a tight end and wide receiver for the University of Virginia in the early 1970s when Allen was quarterback. He said Allen not only used the n-word frequently but also once stuffed a severed deer head into a black family's mailbox.

Allen's campaign released statements from four other ex-teammates defending the senator and rejecting Shelton's claims.

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[MADem]

1. I saw the interview; it was pretty damned devastating

And this thing that went down in, of all places, BumpASS, VA, is pretty sick as well:

Shelton said the incident with the deer head occurred during their college days when he, Allen and another teammate who has since died were hunting on a farm the third man's family owned near Bumpass, Va., 40 miles east of the university.

Shelton said Allen asked the other teammate where black families lived in the area, then stuffed a deer's head into the mailbox of one of the homes.

"George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little shocked by that," he told the AP. "This was just after the movie `The Godfather' came out with the severed horse's head in the bed."

[im10ashus]

2. That is some f*#@ed up stuff.

I can see his political careeer sitting in the west as we speak.

[tularetom]

3. Felix Macaca is one f-ed up conflicted individual

I don't believe for a minute he "just found out" his mom was Jewish. I think he knew it all along and was ashamed of it. I think the bigotry was over-compensation for his shame at his own racial heritage. Even now he's more afraid of losing the support of his racist buddies than he is of being portrayed as a bigot. He's the textbook definition of "self loathing". You'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't personally such a disgusting humanoid.

[im10ashus]

4. Felix Macaca is such a befitting name too. n/t