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September 25, 2006
lashawn & russell heart george allen
from Salon.com:
"Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback. "He used the N-word on a regular basis back then."A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign, separately claimed that Allen used the word "nigger" to describe blacks. "It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used," the teammate said. [full, disgusting story]
It's amazing to think that not very long ago George Allen was considered a contender for '08 Republican presidential nomination. We live in 2006, and yet these kinds of racists continue to hold positions of some honor in the Republican party. Not a year goes by that some or another prominent Republican isn't revealed to be the most base and disgusting kind of racist, and yet talking androids from here to Russell Simmons try to justify their pursuit of narrow economic self-interest by claiming black folks need to start thinking "outside the box" and switch to the party of George Allen. Simply amazing.
Besides being amazing, Simmon's line also the oldest form of okey-doke. Russell's idea of thinking outside the box is to make a buck, as in his plan to "address" the problem of underbanking in the black community by hooking teens on fee-laden Rush Cards that line his pocket while doing nothing to help black folks accrue interest, save or build a credit history. I don't pay any attention to George Clooney's politics, I don't know why I should give a damn about Russell Simmons', but you can't throw a rock at a hip hop blog without reading some predictable asstalk about Russell's "thoughtful" reply to critics of his support for talking android Michael Steele. Fuck joining the Republican party: it really is enough to make you a social anarchist.
Posted by ebogjonson in hhop-ish, politricknal sciences, talking androids, on September 25, 2006 6:19 PM
Comments
I was wondering what a "talking android" was. Not that it wasn't pretty clear from context (hi, found you via the "blackface" flowchart), but, well, yea. Damn, that's depressing about Russell Simmons. Wtf is he thinking? Yeah. Republicans. They are down with the hip-hop and the multiculti, and everything most of your jammers jam about. :eyeroll:
there's thinking outside the box, and then there's not being able to tell your ass from a box -or- a hole in the ground...
Posted by: belledame222 at October 3, 2006 7:16 AM
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