Did George Allen commit a hate crime in college?
09.24.06 – Posted by AsiansVote Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia, infamous for calling a South Asian American man “macaca” and for angrily and bizarrely overreacting to a question about his family’s Jewish heritage, now stands accused of once committing what many juridictions might now call a racist hate crime. From Salon.com:[Allen’s former college football teammate Ken] Shelton said he also remembers a disturbing deer hunting trip with Allen on land that was owned by the family of Billy Lanahan, a wide receiver on the team. After they had killed a deer, Shelton said he remembers Allen asking Lanahan where the local black residents lived. Shelton said Allen then drove the three of them to that neighborhood with the severed head of the deer. “He proceeded to take the doe’s head and stuff it into a mailbox,” Shelton said.Sick of Allen? Help end his political career by donating to his opponent, Democrat Jim Webb.
