[Cross-posted to multiple wires/outlets:]
Statement on Cameo Role as Confederate Officer - Sen. George Felix Allen

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The term "War of Northern Aggression" is very old and very Southern. These days, it's only used by white supremacists such as the KKK.

By using this phrase for the Civil War in his so-called apology, he has "cleverly" sent code to his white supremacist allies that he isn't apologising at all. I'm not a white supremacist but I am a southerner and unless you are from the south, you wouldn't have picked up on it. It's crystal clear to us but the MSM wouldn't have understood.

You're BUSTED, George !!!

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When I first saw "Gods and Generals" in the theaters, I was in shock over it's blatant revisionist history. I sat behind an interracial couple and during the intermission break asked them if it was 'just me or did this look glaringly inaccurate?' In fact, you could call it "Birth Of A Nation Part II". EVERY Northerner was bad, EVERY Southerner was misunderstood and noble, and EVERY black working for the South was rooting for their white 'massahs'! There's even a laughingly 'sentimental' scene between a white Southern General and his black slave cook, who asks something to the effect of 'Can't we all just get along?" - and the slave-owning General commiserates with him and they pray together.

The entire movie comes off as not much more than non-apologetic rationalizations for Southern actions during the Civil War! Everyone involved (but the actors) seems to have a point the want to make in connection to Southerners during that war. When REAL Southern politicians, millionaires, and movers-and-shakers beg to be included in scenes, that is a showing of their real character.

The scene you see shown above also non-subtley features producer Ted Turner, whom I thought at the time had just ended his career in the public spotlight, and I was more or less correct - we haven't seen much of him in public lately. (By the way, somone tell the Irish lead singer that the Irish mostly fought for the North.) Now to hear that Allen is in this scene as well is no shocker: he called the man 'Macaca' like it was his name (so, there goes the 'I thought it meant Mohawk' excuse - the man had introduced himself earlier, AND the hairstyle is nothing close to a Mohawk!) - PLUS he said 'welcome to America' to a man who was born and raised there, living there longer than Allen's own privliged children.

Truth always has a way of sneaking out, especially racism.

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Just another misguided southern patriot that lies prostrate kissing the boots of a Connecticut cowboy in his 27qt stetson, whose carpetbagging family's ancestral home is Kennwefukdapoor, Maine, while ivy league educated policy wonks send this generation's southern patriots off to an immoral war.

what a moron.

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