More Macaca-gate: Allens’ racist “wink”?
george allen finds it necessary to wink at his all-white audience during his apology speech
George Allen, Republicans, and Racism towards Indian-Americans
from the same blog, a great piece on attitudes towards Indian-Americans being verbalized in campaign speeches
Yaknow, I really wasn’t that struck by the whole incident. It was terrible, awful, bad, horrible, all that, but it was life. Any non-White immigrant to America can tell you that they’ve heard it before: in forms obvious and subtle, tokenizing and attacking. But the follow-up is disgusting. Disgusting.
Allen really seems like he’s aspired to be part of the “good ‘ol boy” network all his life, since he left sunny Palos Verdes in California and UCLA and went off to Virginia. One had hoped these types of incidents were only an artifiact of history, but they’re not, and let’s hope that the continued scrutiny over stories like these expands awareness on the issue.
Comment by manoj — September 29, 2006 @ 8:16 am