Allen’s mother was raised in Tunisia. Macaca is a derogatory term there.

to colonel #25463; neither had i heard the term “macaca” used in the george allen context until i saw the clip of him using it twice. i recognized it immediately as an attempted insult because of context and because of the “macaque”, as in monkey. as for which european culture? likely the french as colonizers of northern africa where i am told allen’s grandfather and mother lived as french speakers.
i don’t care what salon magazine says, or where his mother lived or if he has a mother; there was, there is nothing vague, ambiguous, cryptic or equivocal about what george allen said or the context in which he said it, on camera, two times. it damn sure wasn’t mohawk. worse than what he said is that he would feel the need to lie about it. he said macaca, he said it twice.

Virginia has a 20 percent African-American population; and Larry Sabato just went on “Hardball” and confirmed that Allen used the N-word.

Allen has insulted African-Americans, Latinos, Indian-Americans, Jews, bubbas, his core group of supports is shrinking fast!

This Salon article appears to be another fabrication.
http://www.allenhq.com/2006/09/25/webbs-dirty-tricksters-salon/

“Macaca” is obviously a new word for the great majority of us. It is said that certain European cultures use it as a racial epithet. Which European cultures? And where, in Allen’s culture, would he have picked it up? It is certainly not a common racist term in Virginia. Did his family use the term? Puzzling.

i believe george will be re-elected because of these episodes. his camp might even have staged them. i doubt he has lived this long without revealing what a horse’s- i mean, george allen he is. mohawk.

thank goodness i am seated when reading of these shocking allegations. who knew george allen might be a bigot, an aspiring cracker, a caricature of foghorn leghorn? are these witnesses certain allen didn’t say “mohawk”, the mword? the two words are phonetically very similar, almost identical; nword/mword/nword/mword. are these witnesses now motivated to cast aspersions because allen’s mother is of an ancient and noble lineage? why are so many people picking on george allen? is it because he seems to be a loathsome bigot, an insufferable fraud, an inept if practiced liar? hey, george; neener neener, yer ma’s a mohawk.

Racial epithets still resonate among many white voters in virginia. I wont be surprised if Allen is re-elected by these voters.