Another Day, Another Person Alleges Sen. Allen Used The "N-Word"

[JABBS]

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By itself, it has all the makings of a he-said/he-said tale. But Christopher Taylor's story is hardly an isolated one when it comes to Senator "Good Ol' Boy."

Will more stories be revealed as we get closer to election day? And will Virginians simply accept Allen's denials of wrongdoing as either fictional accounts by one-time friends, or "rebellious, anti-establishment" things he did "as a kid" of 25, 32 or 41?

Come clean, Sen. Allen. Things can only get worse.

[KingFlorez]

1. Larry Sabato also says he used it

It's not looking good for Allen. This is the best gift Virginia Democrats could have gotten, Allen being exposed has turned the whole Senate race around.

[Jack from Charlotte]

6. What's the tally so far..... The physician in North Carolina says.......

Sen. Felix Maccawitz used the N word. 2 other UVA team mates confirm what Dr. Ken Shelton said but asked that their names not be used. Shelton also said Maccawitz also referred to him as "Wizard" after then KKK leader, Robert Shelton whose title was the "Grand Wizard" of the KKK.

UVA schoolmate of Maccawitz and current UVA prof, Larry Sabato, said he heard Maccawitz use the N word himself.

Another teammate of Maccawitz, currently a prof at the University of Alabama said Maccawitz also used the N word.

Now 3 ex-teammates have come forward and said the NEVER heard Felix use the N word. However, these 2 are currently working in Felix's campaign and the 3rd was appointed to a position by Felix when he was gov.

Then we have the Confed Flag use. Keeping a noose in his office.... and the Malacca comment caught on camera.


And didn't a young Felix Malacca get busted for spray painting racial comments on his school when they were playing a school that had mostly Black players.

And there's the deer head deal..... putting it in the mailbox of a black family.

Senator Felix Markovitz. A great republican

[LibDemAlways]

8. About the graffiti....see my response # 3 below.

[MADem]

2. Wow, the hits just keep on coming! I am moved to poetry!!!

George Allen sat down, and he did figger,
He could be a Senator, and then something bigger.
But with his mouth, he pulled the trigger,
And shot himself, by saying...

A VERY BAD WORD!

[LibDemAlways]

3. As a senior at Palos Verdes High School, Allen

scrawled racist graffiti on the walls of the school to stir up racial tension against a rival, predominently black school. He was caught and had to apologize over the school PA. He admitted the graffiti to Ryan Lizza of the New Republic back in April, but denied it was racist. I was in Allen's class. It was.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, Grow Legs! n/t

[Mike Daniels]

5. I'm voting for Webb but why didn't this crap come out in prior elections?

All of a sudden, because of "Macaca" all these people just flash-recall what a racist piece of s*it Allen was?

Where were these people when he ran for governor and senator? If the thought wasn't that much in the front of mind back then how do we really know that their memories are really legit now?

Given that just as many teammates have been quoted as saying "he's not racist" is this just going to come down to a he said/he said argument?

[LibDemAlways]

7. I went to high school with Allen and live in California.

I was only vaguely aware he was even in politics until he was running for the Senate in 2000. I contacted several Virginia reporters and told them all about Allen's racism. I also contacted Chuck Robb's campaign and told them what I knew and invited Robb's campaign manager to attend our 30 year reunion and hear about Allen's past from others as well. He declined. One of the Virginia reporters called me a liar. The others were polite but skeptical. After all, high school was a long time ago.

It took Ryan Lizza's investigative work this Spring published in the New Republic to begin to seriously raise these issues. Lizza undertook the research at the urging of another classmate.

I think hearing about Allen's Presidential ambitions was the prime motivation for people finally coming forward. Better late than never.

[JABBS]

9. in the case of shelton

he said that when he realized that allen might run for president, he vowed that if a reporter asked him, he would spill the beans.

the macaca incident put allen front and center, and i think what we're seeing now is a follow the leader situation. plus, reporters are asking questions.

it's sort of like when gennifer flowers came out with allegations against clinton, and a bunch of reporters suddenly started revisiting every arkansas rumor they could find.

[Tin Man]

10. I'm speculating, but I'd say it has something to do with "critical mass"

Prior to the "macaca moment", accounts of Allen's racism were mostly anecdotal accounts - marginal territory for legitimate news - and consequently not pursued.

When the "macaca moment" happened, the door previously shut upon earlier questions into Allen's character was reopened. The "hard evidence" in the video is what gave new legitimacy to the old annecdotal accounts... kinda like the winter thaw that allows old snowfalls to pack well - if you can just get the snowball formed, once it starts rolling downhill - everything sticks to it.

[EST]

11. I can tell you why.

It's because a huge bunch of go along to get along, don't sink to their level, don't rock the boat too hard, take the high road, bubble gum backbone democrats have finally gotten tired of being shat on by semi-somnambulent, lying, smearing publiclowns.

The humping up and taking it, like a poor alley mongrel who has been beaten too generously all his life, days are over!

Except for a few backsliders here and there, we are sick and damn tired of ignorant, self-serving, mendacious bigots who get away with poisoning the public discourse and downloading out and out lies into voters' brains without permission.

We are declaring a truthiness and truthfulness war on the slimy bastards who think supping at the public trough and barring others is their natural right and we should be content with the moldy crusts and stagnant water they deign to throw our way.

Long answer to a short question, but that's how it looks to me.

[Hippo_Tron]

14. I've wondered that myself

It's funny because we've been talking about this stuff about Allen on DU for years but it hasn't come out until now.

[Skidmore]

12. MSNBC I think was angling for Allen being "swift-boated."

As if...

[Disturbed]

13. Uh, he doesn't remember using the N word.

Translation: I might have used it but can't remember if I did, so you see I am not a racist asshole.