More on George Allen the racist/ At least Mr. Sidharth was born in Va.

[liberalitch]

"...Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) apologized Monday for what his opponent's campaign said were demeaning and insensitive comments the senator made to a 20-year-old volunteer of Indian descent.... At a campaign rally in southwest Virginia on Friday, Allen repeatedly called a volunteer for Democrat James Webb 'macaca.'"

"...Depending on how it is spelled, the word macaca could mean either a monkey that inhabits the Eastern Hemisphere or a town in South Africa. In some European cultures, macaca is also considered a racial slur against African immigrants, according to several Web sites that track ethnic slurs....'The kid has a name," Webb communications director Kristian Denny Todd said of Sidarth, a Virginia native who was born in Fairfax County. "This is trying to demean him, to minimize him as a person.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400589.html

From another article:
"Mr. Allen said last night that no slur was intended, though he failed to explain what, exactly, he did have in mind. Macaca is the genus for macaques, a type of monkey found mainly in Asia. Mr. Allen, who as a young man had a fondness for Confederate flags and later staunchly opposed a state holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has surely learned too much about racial sensitivities in public life to misspeak so offensively."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081401114.html

I hope what Jim Webb is really doing in Ca. is trying to find people like this guy who went to high school with Allen:
http://gotv.blogspot.com/2005/06/is-george-allen-racist.html


At least Mr. Sidharth is really a Virginian