There may be a few, Chafee, Collins, but seriously, there IS a reason that David Duke is a Republican, that white supremecy groups like the KKK, NRA, NeoNazis, skinheads, survivalists, and more, all vote Repubtard.

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...was a state congressman from a backwater parish, and was defeated by the people of Louisiana, who took the high road and chose a very, very crooked democrat (Edwards) for governor, over a having a former Klansman holding statewide office. Lesser of two evils, as always in politics, right?

Wrong--unfortunately, we can't say that the people of West Virginia made the same choice, in returning (time and again) their former Klansman to the senate.

In my experience (not just the above example), republicans have the same capacity and perclivity for racist behavior as democrats. Regardless of their political stripes, such people should be exposed for what they are.

BTW, many of the hate groups you mentioned have their own parties. And, you may be shocked to find, that the idea of a free person in a free country owning a firearm is very, very liberal ideal. I forget, however, that democrats are no longer a party of liberal ideals; they just happen to be a tad less restrictive in adjusting our liberties for our own safety than the current beanheads in who hold political power.

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Racism is a major issue in these United States of America. It was a major issue in the motivations when our governments allowed New Orleans to drown. It is an issue in the Iraq War. We would not do what we are doing at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib if they were white/European/Anglo, but they're not white, they're Arabs. Racism is an issue in the underfunding of our education systems. It is an issue in the opposition to affirmative action. Racism has a tremendous impact on so many different areas of American life, it boggles the mind.

It's a shame to see that someone like this lowlife Neanderthal thinker Allen guy can get so far in politics, when his mindset is so backward, but then again, look at what we're stuck with in Rumsfeld, Cheney, and their ilk.

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most people are racist, regardless of party affiliation.

this guy in particular sure sounds a lot more dangerous, though. sounds like a fascist to me.

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I don't know if most people are racist or not, but I do know many who are not...and they try to do what they can to change the racist climate that pervails in our political atmosphere today. Simple lessons in tolerance and love given in childhood might make the difference.

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"Macaca" is not a term I have ever heard before, and I think this kind of racism is the "funny names" variety. He might just as well have blurted out "Ahmed" or something. I mean, I doubt this candidate is all that familiar with the language and/or culture of Eastern Africa--certainly not enough to blurt out a racist term unique to that culture. It would be like David Duke blurting out that we need to get rid of the haole or gaijin. Most people would be scratching their heads.

This in no way diminishes this guy's obvious distaste for non-whites. But let's give credit where credit is due.

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Reread the post more closely... particularly the part about his mother...

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Unlike the Democratic elite who live in all-white States or neighborhoods (or in the case of the Kerrys and Kennedys all-white compounds where rape and excessive drinking is all in a days fun). Remember Ms.Clinton claiming that "all Indians work in convenience stores." Or when Lieberman made the same "joke". What about Hollywood's "The Simpsons" where every Indian is a stereotyped? And every Democrat produced movie or music where every black person is a 'gangsta' or 'ho'? Frankly, I've never heard of this term "Malaca" and it seems a pretty bizarre ethnic comment if it was so. However, I guess, there are regional terms of disparagement I assume. So maybe its popular with the white people in his state. Both parties are racist due to their elistism. Oh, they can tolerate some token. ("He is so articulate". "She is sooo well spoken".) But they both are racist, elitist scum who will use race for their own aggrandisment (whether its 'fear of crime', 'affirmative action', 'welfare programs', 'law and order'). Democrats and Republicans are both the same party that serves the elite.

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But apparently, "the word Macaca had no derogatory meaning for him" . I'd never heard the word before this article, but hearing his moms is from a part of the world where the word IS used, his defense seems a little disengenuous.

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The article is " US Senator apologises for remark against NRI", and it can be found at http://www.financialexpress.com/

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After looking at the video a couple of times, I think he may just have been tipsy...
a'la Mel Gibson?

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After carefully listeming to the video, from 1)
the repetition of the word , 2) its clearness, 3) its emphasis, 4)the speaker directing his words to the young man, 5) together with the comment about the guy in the yellow shirt following him around video tapping for his opponent, 6) his opponent being Tunisian, and 7) the "educated smartness" in his attitude saying the word, I have come to the conclusion: the speaker had time for an aide to do some research to find something to customize an insult to the young man of color, and his boss. Probably his audience did not know what the word meant, but that didn't matter -- the intention was to insult the young man and his boss.

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Andrew Young, the American civil rights leader who was hired by Wal- Mart Stores to improve its public image, has resigned from that post after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years, "selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables."

In the interview, published Thursday in The Los Angeles Sentinel, a weekly, Young said Wal-Mart should displace mom-and-pop stores in urban neighborhoods.

"You see those are the people who have been overcharging us," he said of the owners of the small stores, "and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs."

Young, 74, a former mayor of Atlanta and a former U.S. representative at the United Nations, apologized for the comments and retracted them in an interview late Thursday. Less than an hour later, he resigned as chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group created and financed by the company to trumpet its accomplishments.

"It's against everything I ever thought in my life," Young said. "It never should have been said. I was speaking in the context of Atlanta, and that does not work in New York or Los Angeles

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