Bush to help racist Senator
President George W. Bush has no qualms about attending a political fundraiser for a Virginia Senator who recently used a racial slur against a young American of Indian ethnicity. At a rally in southwest Virginia on August 11, Republican Senator George Allen belittled S.R. Sidarth, a 20-year-old campaign volunteer for the Senator’s Democratic opponent James Webb. Mr Sidarth was in the crowd filming the event when Mr Allen pointed him out. “This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his..." "...name is ... He’s following us around everywhere. And it’s just great,” Mr. Allen said to laughter. Macaca is a genus of monkey found widely in Asia. It is also a racial slur in French — macaque, meaning monkey — that racists and white colonialists in Africa use to refer to Africans. Mr Allen’s mother emigrated from French Tunisia and he is fluent in French.read more...
- August 25, 2006
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