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Human Torch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 08:56 PM
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Macaca Boy faces allegations of being "at ease" using "The 'N' Word"...
Teammates: Allen used "N-word" in college

Three members of Sen. George Allen's college football team remember a man with racist attitudes at ease using racial slurs.

By Michael Scherer

http://salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/24/allen_football/

Sept. 24, 2006 | WASHINGTON -- George AllenThree former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s.

"Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback. "He used the N-word on a regular basis back then."

A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign, separately claimed that Allen used the word "nigger" to describe blacks. "It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used," the teammate said.

A third white teammate contacted separately, who also spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of being attacked by the Virginia senator, said he too remembers Allen using the word "nigger," though he said he could not recall a specific conversation in which Allen used the term. "My impression of him was that he was a racist," the third teammate said.
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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 08:57 PM
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1. That anyone thought otherwise is what suprises me
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 08:59 PM
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2. Macaca just got booted off the field and into the shower.
So long, George.
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 09:06 PM
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3. This will just reinforce his base
with apologies to good DU southerners.

I feel this will just make the worst Virginians forget that he is a "jew boy" and is after all, one of them.
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