The stories just don’t stop coming. MSNBC has an exclusive report on a woman, Pat Waring, who overheard Allen loudly and repeatedly using the “n” word in the late 70′s as he prepared for a rugby match. This happened just before his first run for Virginia House of Delegates.
I agree with the woman in the article. He could have come clean about his past, admitted his repeated use of the word in the recklessness of his youth, apologized, and moved on. But no, he preferred to flatly deny it, which makes him a sitting duck for anyone who knows anything to the contrary. I bet we’ll get stories like this all the way to the election.
Allen is a disgrace to Virginia and to people of color. I can’t fathom how someone like him is still in office….though his presidential aspirations are probably toast, and that’s a good thing.
(The Allen campaign is fomenting allegations that his challenger Jim Webb also used the “n” word at one point. We’ll see what comes of that story, and if true is equally reprehensible, though I still consider Allen by far the worse evil for his consistent pattern of racism, from displaying nooses and confederate flags to the “macaca” incident to stuffing a decapitated deer’s head in a black family’s mailbox.)
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I’m hoping he is booted out of office. even if he wins, I fear that these various stories about his racism will severely hurt his chances at ever running for President, thank God.
Oh PS: DOn’t forget this! He can’t win. I love it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801835.html
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