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George Allen sings 'Hurrah! For Southern rights, hurrah!'
Virginia's Republican Senator George Allen has created a firestorm after his racial epithet in a recent speech. For those of you who haven't heard, he called an Indian-American man "Macaca." Macaca is a derogatory term for dark-skinned people in the part of the world that Allen's mother is from.
Allen denies that the comments were racially motivated, but he has a long history of supporting the Confederacy. While he was running for Governor in Virginia he had a Confederate flag hanging in his living room.
Albany's Times Union reported:
In the opening screen shot to the video above, he is the one in the large grey hat and mustache on the right…
Allen denies that the comments were racially motivated, but he has a long history of supporting the Confederacy. While he was running for Governor in Virginia he had a Confederate flag hanging in his living room.
Albany's Times Union reported:
"…he had always been attracted to the notion of the Old Confederacy, driving around in high school in California with a Confederate-flag plate on the front of his car. He posed for his high school yearbook wearing a Confederate pin on his collar…"And now, TNR's The Plank has found a video of Allen making a cameo in "the 2003 Civil War movie Gods and Generals in which he sings, 'Hurrah! Hurrah! For Southern rights, hurrah!' (Allen's closeups are at 00:12 and 1:18.)"
In the opening screen shot to the video above, he is the one in the large grey hat and mustache on the right…
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