This story continues to piss me off. The more and more I read about it, the angrier I get. Basically a UNITED STATES SENATOR called a young American of South Asian descent “Macaca”, which probably was the first stupid thing to come into his pea brain mind. His team is trying to say it is a nickname for a mohawk. Yeah, and I call all my Hispanic friends Lazy Sleepytons all the time and they just love it.
The video clip shows Allen telling the crowd: “Let’s give a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia.”
Sidarth was born and raised in Fairfax County.
What is it with folks automatically thinking if you have darker skin, you must be from the rainforest or the African jungle?
The words could be especially damaging when considered in the context of Allen’s history of displaying the Confederate flag, Sabato said.
OH JEEZE. Well, I hope Senator Allen enjoys his reruns of the Dukes of Hazzard, because this mofo ain’t going to be our president in 2008, not with me and the rest of the macacas out and about and voting.
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Now he will definitely be reelected.
By absi on 08.15.06 7:24 pm | Permalink
[...] Those witty snarksters at Defamer brought this up today, and it made my macaca blood boil! There are so many boneheaded things written and uttered in this article it’s hard to focus. In fact, I think I just puked on my keyboard. What a mess. “When you start talking to a person from Asia, you realize — Wow! They have all different backgrounds!” gushed Probst, who described himself repeatedly as a 44-year-old white guy from Wichita. The other day, he told the reporters, he went to his dentist, who is white, and the dentist brought in another dentist, who is Asian. “And I found myself saying to the Asian doctor, ‘Where in Asia is your family from?’ ” The dentist said he was Korean. “The only reason I had the courage to even ask that question or the knowledge to ask that question was I’d just spent 39 days with people from Korea,” Probst said. “You know, a young Hispanic kid now gets turned on to ‘Survivor’ because there’s somebody he can relate to and it opens up a world to him. Maybe he decides to travel as a result of seeing the show or maybe he sees something . . . in this Hispanic [contestant] that he can connect with and he decides to go do what that guy does.” [...]
By CITIZENROBOT DOT COM » Reason #349,356,656 Why I Don’t Watch Reality Television on 09.08.06 5:47 pm | Permalink
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