Teammates: Allen used "N-word" in college

Sept. 24, 2006 | WASHINGTON -- Three 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.

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

We need Virginians to get this to the people! Please send opeds on this today!

When he was 'Governor', he spoke to Virginia Girls State (c. June 1996), held at Longwood, in Farmville ... having a cousin playing football at Hampden Sydney and family ties to the area, I had subscribed to the Farmville Herald. So, I saw the write-up. I cut it out and saved it. Heaven knows what box it is in.

The article told of some questions asked him after the speech. One came from a McLean delegate who asked what was he doing "to ensure that the gay community is guaranteed the same rights, such as marriage, as the heterosexual community."

How did Felix answer the question?

He replied: "Well, I'm not doing anything because I don't believe in how they should be given some special preference because of their sexual orientation."

Referring to Fellow Citizens and Americans as "they" and "them" ... and, he thinks he's a "Jeffersonian Republican" :rofl:

I recently shared the LTTE I wrote, and the Farmville Herald published, with the Webb campaign.


In his inaugural address as President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, said "...that the minority possesses their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind".

As I said in the LTTE, Jefferson could have been answering the question posed by the Girl Stater ... adding that ...

James Madison may have answered the question with his belief in the "diversity of the faculties of men" and that the "protection of those faculties is the first object of government."

But, there was Felix in Farmville, in the heart of Virginia, Birthplace of a Nation, Mother of Statesmen, Mother of Presidents, telling the future leaders of Virginia and America, that he wasn't doing anything ... a do-nothing.

We need to turn to our Founders' words and our history more in dealing with the likes of Felix.

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Speaking of Jefferson ...

In November 1960, JFK campaigned in Norfolk days before the election. He charmed the crowd by making fun of Nixon's claim that the Democratic Party did not adhere to the principles of Thomas Jefferson:

A contemporary described Thomas Jefferson as a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance the minuet and play the violin ... What does he have in common with Richard Nixon."

Kenneth O'Donnell apparently had JFK's stump speech, but couldn't be found. So, JFK spoke without his prepared text.

I hope his gay lover comes out and outs this clown soon!!!

Why don't I believe Senator Macacawitz's protestations. Lets go to the videotape of August 11, 2006.
Anyone who can pull macaca out of his ass sure has used the N-word.

Larry Sabato says he "knows" Allen used the word, although he would not confirm that Allen had used it in his presence. And, of course, Larry was an undergraduate classmate with Allen ... hmmm ...

Larry Brown, for example.

No kidding.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/us/politics/27allen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print

God only knows what he calls OTHER ethnic groups. (besides "macaca")
Unfortunately, voters' MEMORIES are very short.
This is ONLY September. All will be forgotten by November.
And if VA. uses those Diebold machines ....
you already know the rest of the story.