Macaca Allen and the "White Citizens Council"

[BurtWorm]

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060911&s=george_allen



Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.

In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations, he strode to a booth at the entrance of the exhibition hall festooned with two large Confederate flags--a booth operated by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), at the time a co-sponsor of CPAC. After speaking with CCC founder and former White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum and two of his cohorts, Allen suggested that they pose for a photograph with then-National Rifle Association spokesman and actor Charlton Heston. The photo appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the CCC's newsletter, the Citizens Informer.

According to Baum, Allen had not naively stumbled into a chance meeting with unfamiliar people. He knew exactly who and what the CCC was about and, from Baum's point of view, was engaged in a straightforward political transaction. "It helped us as much as it helped him," Baum told me. "We got our bona fides." And so did Allen.

Descended from the White Citizens' Councils that battled segregation in the Jim Crow South, the CCC is designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In its "Statement of Principles," the CCC declares, "We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races."

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Asked whether Allen supports or deplores the CCC, John Reid, his communications director pleaded ignorance. "I am unaware of the group you mention or their agenda and because we have no record of the Senator having involvement with them I cannot offer you any opinion on them," Reid told me in an e-mail response.

In posing for a picture that he knew the CCC would use to promote itself and him, and would be circulated to true believers, Allen joined a tradition of conservative Southern politicians seeking to burnish their neo-Confederate credentials. In 2003, former Republican National Committee Chairman and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour took a photograph with revelers at the CCC's "Blackhawk Rally," a fundraising event for white "private academies." In the subsequent hailstorm of media criticism, after reporters discovered that the CCC had posted photos of Barbour on its website, Barbour pointedly refused to demand that the group remove them. Though Barbour came from an old and influential Mississippi family in Yazoo, he had spent a long time as a lobbyist in Washington. "In Mississippi, one of the biggest problems he had was they thought he was a scalawag. So it didn't hurt him in Mississippi," Baum said of the photos. "Nobody said, 'Oh my golly!'" Despite the CCC photos becoming a campaign issue, or partly perhaps because of it, Barbour handily won re-election in 2003.

[Demeter]

1. I LOVE That: "Macaca" Allen

Makes you think of other nicknames: Mack the Knife, Joey Bananas, "Duke" Cunningham, Tom "the Hammer" DeLay, "Kenny Boy" Lay, I could go on, but you get the point.

[panader0]

3. Really. what a great new nickname. I hope it sticks,

[liberaldemocrat7]

7. It might stick if you wear it on a t shirt :)

http://www.zazzle.com/maximus7/product/235390623035311805

or on a mug :)

http://www.zazzle.com/maximus7/product/168755717687417851

or the life time member of the REPUBLIKLAN PARTY T shirt, hehe.

http://www.zazzle.com/maximus7/product/235780582558219144

[wicket]

8. How about Macaca Felix Allen

He HATES his middle name.

:evilgrin:

[panader0]

2. These people actually represent their constituency;

They are racist and so are those who vote for them. It's a very thin-see-through veil.

[tularetom]

4. G. Felix Allen ain't a Southerner

As much as he'd like to be one. He's from California and his mother is FRENCH for chrissakes.

[muntrv]

5. They must not care about the fact that macaca allen was raised in

librul Southern California. Hardly a confederate.

[BurtWorm]

6. kick

[Eugene]

9. kick & recommend n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

10. Look at the fake Moses on the end there.

Ick!

[wicket]

11. This needs a

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[AspenRose]

12. Kick

FELIX: The Monkey on Virginia's Back :kick: