Webb v Allen

Race Baiters

This is how ridiculous the Virginia Senate race has become Allen Denies Using Racial Slur in School Sep 25 7:42 PM US/Eastern By BOB LEWIS Associated Press Writer RICHMOND, Va. Sen. George Allen on Monday denounced as "ludicrously false" allegations from a former college football teammate that he frequently used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s and that he once stuffed a severed deer head into a black household's mailbox. Allen's campaign also released statements from four other ex-teammates defending the senator and rejecting Dr. Ken Shelton's claims. Shelton leveled the allegations against the former University of Virginia quarterback in an article published Sunday in the online magazine Salon.com and during an Associated Press interview Sunday night. If that's the criterion, kick Robert Byrd out of the Democratic Party, and the United States Senate today.  I grew up in a household without once hearing the word "nigger" uttered, and so did my kids.  I know people who never, to my knowledge, used the word; I'm not one of them.  We told jokes about everything, and anything - and ethnic jokes were at the top of the humor charts before PC took over.  There were Polak jokes, Catholic jokes, Jew jokes, Nigger jokes, Dago jokes, Mick jokes - we told them all.  I simply don't believe that any college kid growing up in the 50's-60's-70's went through life without telling, or at least laughing at, all of them - and that includes James Webb.  JFC!  O.J. Simpson is walking free today largely because his defense team proved that the lead detective had uttered "nigger" 20 years prior.  What bullshit.  Use of that word does not necessarily translate into reflected bigoted action, which is what counts.  I will guess that approximately half the black people I've met in life were folks I liked, and enjoyed being with. The other half were assholes.  Same ratio for any other ethnic group.  I don't use "nigger" today because it's low class.  If I hear someone use it, I immediately put them in my idiot file. But, when I can't get through a night on Comedy Central without hearing the "N WORD" a dozen times, I'd say that ugliness is getting a beauty treatment.  I listened to a Dave Chapelle interview - he uses the word a thousand times a night on his show (which I love), and was asked if he got upset when he heard white people say it.  Yes, he said, he gets very upset.  Fuck you, Dave.  You don't introduce something into the culture, and then try to control it. The fact that Democrats have injected race into the Virginia Senate campaign is, in itself, reason to vote fir Allen. Yes, I've said some of this before, but now I feel better, and that's why we're here.