U2Bama said:I am VERY familiar with this hate organization, as I campaigned AGAINST a Lieutenant Governor candidate in Alabama (George Wallace, Jr.) in part because he has frequently spoken at their events.
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www.cofcc.org
Bama, are these the people who run the academies? Those smallish, "budget" private schools that are whites-only or as close to it as possible? I'm not really recognizing anything I'm seeing on their website (which doesn't mean much, I've lived outside the South for 18 years now--though I see they have some Midwestern chapters, too), but for some reason my mind wants to associate their name with this organization I remember that used to fund those schools. Probably there aren't as many of them now as when I was a kid, but back then at least it seemed like there was quite a network of them.the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council
Burns Says Terrorists Drive Taxis by Day
Aug 31 2:06 PM US/Eastern
By MATT GOURAS
Associated Press Writer
BELGRADE, Mont.
Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, whose recent comments have stirred controversy, says the United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night."
During a fundraiser Wednesday with first lady Laura Bush, the three- term Montana senator talked about terrorism, tax cuts and the money he has brought to his state. Burns is one of the more vulnerable Senate incumbents, facing a tough challenge from Democrat Jon Tester.
He has drawn criticism in recent weeks for calling his house painter a "nice little Guatemalan man" during a June speech. Burns, whose re- election campaign is pressing for tighter immigration controls, also suggested that the man might be an illegal immigrant. The campaign later said the worker is legal.
At the campaign event with Bush, Burns talked about the war on terrorism, saying a "faceless enemy" of terrorists "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night."
yolland said:
Bama, are these the people who run the academies? Those smallish, "budget" private schools that are whites-only or as close to it as possible? I'm not really recognizing anything I'm seeing on their website (which doesn't mean much, I've lived outside the South for 18 years now--though I see they have some Midwestern chapters, too), but for some reason my mind wants to associate their name with this organization I remember that used to fund those schools. Probably there aren't as many of them now as when I was a kid, but back then at least it seemed like there was quite a network of them.
Good for you for campaigning against them, in any case--I don't know how often this happens in AL, but from what I can tell from talking to old friends as well as browsing various message boards, it seems that way too many Mississippians are still stuck in that stage where they personally loathe this kind of crap, yet can't be bothered to protest when their politicians endorse it.
This is "the" George Wallace's son, I take it? I thought his father had repudiated all that stuff...if so, it's pretty sad that his son's still pursuing it.
Irvine511 said:^ apparently, in the South, it's an aspersion to call someone Jewish?
Irvine511 said:^ apparently, in the South, it's an aspersion to call someone Jewish?
BonoVoxSupastar said:
Are you being serious? You really don't see the difference?
Devlin said:
There IS no difference. Let us call a spade a spade: Racism is racism, no matter who spews the garbage. I don't find anti-White jokes funny, at all. There's no purpose in Black people spewing offensive 'jokes' at Whites just because of history.
You make a valid point, but if a black Dem senate candidate quipped in a speech something along the lines of,"Like whitey over there" the lynching ropes would be whipped out.INDY500 said:"In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking."
--Joe Biden 2006
Hillary Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis."
--Hillary Clinton 2004
When someone slips and utters a racial slur in the act of ad-libbing a joke it doesn't necessarily make them a racist...unless, apparently, he or she is a Republican.
Attempting to label Senator Allen as a racist can only mean one thing...he's winning.
yolland said:While I was also puzzled about what Allen meant by "making aspersions about people because of their religious beliefs," I did feel the reporter's line of questioning was inappropriate in the context of a campaign debate. There was nothing for Webb to debate him on in those questions.
On a side note, I'm really starting to detest the casualness with which journalists throw around phrases like "Jewish leaders," "Muslim leaders," "black leaders," etc., particularly in the context of potentially polarizing issues. So often these labels get applied to (minority) folks who are merely something more than a random off-the-street individual, which is not what "leader" implies, and that can both attach misleading weight to their perspectives and encourage sweeping assumptions about how the people they supposedly "lead" think.
Allen's Mother Revealed Jewish Heritage to Him Last Month
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post, September 21
RICHMOND -- Henrietta "Etty" Allen said Wednesday that she concealed her upbringing as a Jew in North Africa from her children, including Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), until a conversation across the dining room table in late August.
She said Allen asked her directly about his Jewish heritage when he was in Los Angeles for a fundraiser. "We sat across the table and he said, 'Mom, there's a rumor that Pop-pop and Mom-mom were Jewish and so were you,' " she recalled, a day after Allen issued a statement acknowledging and embracing his Jewish roots as he campaigns for a second term in the U.S. Senate.
At the table in Palos Verdes, Calif., Allen's mother, who is 83, said she told her son the truth: That she had been raised as a Jew in Tunisia before moving to the United States. She said that she and the senator's father, famed former Redskins coach George Allen, had wanted to protect their children from living with the fear that she had experienced during World War II. Her father, Felix Lumbroso, was imprisoned by the Nazis during the German occupation of Tunis. "What they put my father through. I always was fearful," Etty Allen said in a telephone interview. "I didn't want my children to have to go through that fear all the time. When I told Georgie, I said, 'Now you don't love me anymore.' He said, 'Mom, I respect you more than ever.' "
Allen's heritage became an issue in the Virginia Senate campaign Monday, when television reporter Peggy Fox raised it at a televised debate in front of 600 business executives in Fairfax County. Allen repeated what he has said in the past: "My mother's French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. And I was raised as she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian."
In fact, Allen had just recently learned about their Jewish roots when he made those comments. Allen declined to comment, but his mother said she had sworn him to secrecy. "I said, well, I just didn't want anyone to know," she explained. "I had said, 'Please don't tell your brothers and sister and your wife.' The fact this is such an issue justifies my actions, and my behavior."
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Allen's Jewish heritage has been a subject of low-level political speculation for years, in part because the former governor and first-term senator often refers to his grandfather's incarceration by the Nazis in political speeches. But Allen has always said Lumbroso was a member of the Free French resistance movement and insisted that he and his mother were raised as Christians.
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Etty Allen said Wednesday that she had never used the word "macaca" before and had to go to a dictionary to look it up when she heard of the controversy. She said the word did not exist in her dictionary. "I swear to you, I have never used that word," she said. "I must have used a lot of bad words, but not that word."
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Allen's mother said she first began concealing her Jewish roots after meeting her future husband, afraid that she would not be accepted by his parents and fearful that her religion could harm his budding coaching career, which started at Whittier College, a school in Southern California founded by Quakers. "He didn't want me to tell his mother," she said of the elder George Allen. "At that time, that was a no-no, to marry outside the church." Allen died in 1990.
Leo Mugmon, 92, a longtime friend of Allen's mother who knew her as a Jew in Tunis, recalled her decision to hide her faith when she came to the United States. "She did not say anything to her mother-in-law or her family," Mugmon said. He added that Etty Allen's father, Felix Lumbroso, traveled from Tunis for the Allen wedding. "Mr. Felix didn't say anything about it. In silence, he sort of condoned it."
U2democrat said:I have other sources that can confirm Sabato's side of the story...Allen is in deep trouble.
Irvine511 said:
well, considering Allen's ethusiastic support for the Virginia marriage amendment which would outlaw any and all rights for gay couples, i don't think it's too much of a stretch to think he's a racist idiot as well. the two seem to go hand-in-hand.
sooooooooo glad i get to vote in VA in 2006.
INDY500 said:
Vote against Allen because of his believes on same-sex marriage, vote against him because of his strong support of Bush (a.k.a. BeelzeBush) and the war in Iraq, hell, vote against him because he's the incumbent. But this macaca and "may of used the N word 30 years ago in college." Please. Who cares?