Bush's spokesman on racist remark

By Bruce Ackerman
Posted on August 15, 2006, Printed on February 13, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/40392/bush%27s_spokesman_on_racist_remark

Yesterday, a Republican senator and top candidate for the '08 presidential nomination, called an Indian American man "macaca" twice on video tape.

Allen, who speaks French, and whose mother is a French Tunisian immigrant, must have known that this is a derogatory term for dark-skinned people. His limpid excuse that it's a mangled form of "mohawk" -- accepted by dimwits like Sean Hannity -- is an insult.

Even the president, via Tony Snow, doesn't appear to accept this explanation. While saying that the president had not commented on Allen's racist remark, Snow did remark that he "gather[s] Senator Allen has apologized for it." If that's not a subtle hint from the administration, I don't know what is.

Allen -- a man with more than one noose in his closet -- ought to cut this thing off before it develops into a full-blown scandal...

Oh, and before I forget: Tony. Baby. No. Senator Allen has not apologized for it.

Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

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