Macaca-thon!

Can’t get enough backstory on Va. Sen. George Allen’s racist remark? Neither can the Washington Post, which posted this 1,300-word profile on the object of Allen’s remark, 20-year-old U. Va student S.R. Sidarth.

The Washington Post:

... Back at school in Charlottesville now, Sidarth has taken his new, unwanted fame with him.

Larry J. Sabato, an oft-quoted political pundit who teaches a small, popular seminar on campaigns and elections, said he asked students to write an essay as part of the admission process. Eighty people applied for the course, including Sidarth. His essay was just three words long—but it was enough to clinch one of the 20 coveted spots in the class.

“I am Macaca,” he wrote.

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Rich Lipski / The Washington Post

S.R. Sidarth said he knew that George Allen “was injecting some sort of derogatory comment toward me that had a racial bent to it” when the senator called him “macaca.”