8/18/2006 01:09:00 PM | Timothy "Of Monkeys and Senators" I've rambled on below about Allen's race problem. Matthew Yglesias is much more articulate in stating what he thinks: For the record yes, obviously George Allen was trying to use a racial slur against S.R. Sidarth. The reason you might not think it was a slur is that the slur in question was terribly obscure. It's obscure, however, because it's a French slur. And Allen's mother is . . . a white Frenchwoman who grew up in Tunisia, exactly the sort of person who would know all about French racial slurs. And Allen speaks French. And, of course, in Allen's youthful California days he was a white supremacist fond of flying the Stars and Bars. Update: Via TNR.com, I see that S.R. Sidarth's grandparents wrote a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about the family's connection to Ghandi: We would like to thank you for taking the right stand on the gaffe of Sen. George Allen ["George Allen's America," editorial, Aug. 15]. perma link |
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