George Allen Apologizes For Racial Slur

Allen apologized yesterday for calling a young native-born Virginian (Allen is from California, y'all) "Macaca" or "Mukakah." Choose your preferred racial-slur spelling.

From The Washington Post:

"...Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) apologized Monday for what his opponent's campaign said were demeaning and insensitive comments the senator made to a 20-year-old volunteer of Indian descent.... At a campaign rally in southwest Virginia on Friday, Allen repeatedly called a volunteer for Democrat James Webb 'macaca.'"

"...Depending on how it is spelled, the word macaca could mean either a monkey that inhabits the Eastern Hemisphere or a town in South Africa. In some European cultures, macaca is also considered a racial slur against African immigrants, according to several Web sites that track ethnic slurs....'The kid has a name," Webb communications director Kristian Denny Todd said of Sidarth, a Virginia native who was born in Fairfax County. "This is trying to demean him, to minimize him as a person.'"

Don't you just naturally expect George Allen to claim that he has no idea why people are so outraged?

Join the club.

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