Allen, Racist, Etc. Cont.

Ryan Lizza has yet more on the rapidly snowballing story over at the Plank in a post titles "N-Word Accuser of the Day." Ellen G. Hawkins, a housewife from rural manquin, Virginia, has a very specific story about Allen using racist epithets against black washington redskins players at a 1976 election party.

I'll let Lizza Take it from here:

I truly don't mean to pile on, but it's worth summarizing what we now know about Allen's history on matters of race:

-He wore or displayed Confederate memorabilia from high school (late 1960s) until 1993, including on himself, his car, in his living room, and in a campaign ad.

-In high school he allegedly sprayed racist graffiti on his school's walls.

-In college he allegedly stuffed the head of a deer in a black family's mailbox.

-According to the accounts of three independent, on the record sources and two anonymous sources, in college and law school in the 1970s and as an attorney starting a political career in the early 1980s, Allen regularly and casually used the word "nigger" to describe African Americans.

There are two possibilities: Allen is the victim of a massive conspiracy to paint him as a racist, a plot that involves numerous high school and college classmates, a Virginia housewife, an Alabama anthropologist, and a North Carolina radiologist. Or, George Allen was a racist.

And since George Allen in recent weeks referred to someone by what he knew from both his knowledge of French and his mother's North African roots to be a racist slur (and compounded his xenophobia by welcoming the native Virginian to America) one can seriously question the use of the past tense. And unlike Lizza, I actually do mean to pile on. George Allen is running for reelection to his seat as one of Virginia's United States Senators and he has eyes on the presidency. We need to pile on early and often.