Subtle Signs Someone Might Be Trying to Play You
1. As part of his reelection campaign, the GOP junior senator from Virginia holds an “ethnic rally” designed to deflect negative publicity over recent borderline-racist comments.
2. A quick look at said senator’s own personal history reveals a troubling history of racial impropriety, including a rebel flag fetish and endorsement of the Council of Conservative Citizens, an innocuously-named white supremacist organization.
3. Until very recently, our embattled congressman was an immigration-hawk’s dream come true: check the record. He opposed a guest-worker program, a path to citizenship for the undocumented, and the idea that immigration generally helps our economy—that is, until yesterday, apparently.
Yeah yeah, I know what you’re thinking: big whoop, politicians lie for a living, nothing to see here etc. But some people who really should know better just can’t seem to see the red flags waving in their faces:
Last week, as he has for years, Allen put on a cowboy hat and saddled up a horse — this time named Bubba — to ride in Buena Vista’s annual Labor Day parade. Allen, who was born and raised in California, rode down the parade route greeting the Shenandoah Valley crowd by saying, “Howdy! How y’all doing? Good to see y’all.”
When the image was broadcast, one longtime Allen supporter said he cringed. “Seeing him with a horse called Bubba wearing cowboy boots, that doesn’t resonate with us,” said Terone Green, a Republican activist from Richmond who is black.
So the stars-and-bars love and ties to openly racist groups are just fine by Green, but his man’s cowboy outfit keeps him up nights. Got it. Man, where do these negroes come from??
Published on September 10, 2006 at 10:09 pm.
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