At the 2008 Republican Convention in Minneapolis, I had the pleasure of meeting former Virginia Governor and Senator George Allen.
http://www.georgeallen.com/?page_id=2
George Allen is not only a darling of conservatives, he also is from a fabulous family for anybody intelligent enough to appreciate the National Football League. His father, the late George Allen, coached the “Over the Hill Gang” Redskins that made it to the Superbowl in the 1972 season. His brother Bruce Allen was a top executive with the Oakland Raiders before departing to become the General Manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The story of Senator George Allen has an element of tragedy to it. In 2006 he was coasting towards reelection to his Senate seat. He was being mentioned as a Presidential candidate for 2008. Given that there was no staunch conservative in the race at the time, he most likely would have been vaulted into a top tier contender for the White House. While many claim to be the heir to the Reagan legacy, George Allen could say this with credibility.
It all fell apart when he was videotaped making a joke that fell flat. You-tube was in its infancy, and Senator Allen referred to somebody as “macaca.” From now on every moment in politics is referred to as a “macaca moment.” Despite the fact that Joe Biden once referred to Indians and 7-11, and Hillary Clinton made her own Indian joke that bombed, life is not fair. COnservatives are held to unreasonable standards. The attack on George Allen over this moment was a complete hit job, and it wrecked his career. Although he lost his Senate race within a close enough margin to demand a recount, he refused to contest the results. His loss cost republicans the Senate, and the shellshock of the 2006 election was best represented by his stunning defeat.
I hope that one day George Allen is known only for his public service, and not for the fact that his political enemies felt the need to drag a good man down.
When I met him, I told him that I had always wanted to interview him because I was not only a conservative republican blogger, but a major NFL fan who liked his brother Bruce. He asked me if I was a Buccaneers fan. I told him I was not, that I rooted for the Raiders, and was sad that the Bucs took his brother and Jon Gruden from Oakland. He laughed and said that he liked the Raiders as well due to the family tie, even if it was no longer current.
We did a “walk and talk” interview, and that interview is below.
1) What are the most important issues of 2008?
GA: “The key issues are energy, security, and maintaining our economic competitiveness.
2) Who are your 3 favorite political heroes?
GA: “Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, and Margaret Thatcher.”
3) How would you like to be remembered 100 years from now? What would you want people to say about George Allen the person?
GA: “I would like to be remembered as a man who kept his word. I advocated principled conservatism. I stuck to Jeffersonian principles.”
4) How do you predict the Buccaneers and the Raiders will do in 2008?
GA: “The Buccaneers…10-6…The Raiders…8-8.”
As a die hard fan of the Silver and Black, I felt Senator Allen was being way too generous. Perhaps he was being diplomatic. Nevertheless, it is nice that somebody could muster something positive to say about the Raiders.
I let the Senator know one last thing.
“Senator Allen, I just wanted you to know that I thought that what was done to you in 2006 was a complete hit job. I appreciate your service, and know that you were right.”
It was a pleasure meeting Senator Allen. I look forward to seeing him achieve even greater success in life. The world…or at least my world…will be better when he returns to public service and his brother Bruce returns to Oakland.
eric
I don’t think the “macaca moment” cost Allen the election. 2006 was just plain a bad year for Republicans in general, and Virginia’s changing demographics have been tilting the commonwealth to the left in recent years. He only lost by a tiny percentage, and Webb is a real Reagan guy, honored vet, and pretty conservative. This was going to be a tight race period. The press loves to imagine they hold more power than they really do. The “macaca moment,” like the “Dean scream,” or the “spelling of potato” incident, was significant only to the narcissistic press.
Just the same, Allen has a long history of racism and anti-semitism (albeit apparently a self-loathing anti-semitism) and hypocritical political stances (“pro-life” while vested in the MAP). People should have voted against him even for these things alone. Unfortunately, too many Virginians are still fine with these sorts of attitudes.
I don’t know why you’d even bother with this guy.
JMJ
Eric,
I like George Allen, he helped a lot of people who were harmed by an eugenics movement that occured in pre WWII Virginia by infamous eugenist Walter Ashby Plecker. George Allen was passing legislation that was trying to undue the harm Walter Plecker had done. They say Plecker even met with the Nazis before WWII to help them write their eugenics program. George Allen got a raw deal. Thank You Senator George Allen, for standing up for Melungeons and their decendants. First Link scroll to the bottom to view George Allen’s legislation on behalf of the victims of Walter Ashby Plecker.
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2004/09/the_black_white.php
http://melungeon-historical-society.blogspot.com/2008/09/plecker-letters-pertaining-to.html
Walter Ashby Plecker was a eugenist and a Nazi sympathizer it was George Allen that was getting legislation passed to undue what Walter Ashby Plecker had done. Anti semitic? Walter Ashby Plecker is believed to have helped the Nazis write their eugenics code, and how to apply his practices, he used in Virginia read the second link Plecker Letters. Walter A Plecker, taught the Nazis how to indentify people of Jewish descent, and IBM provided the whole punch machine. NO George Allen is not anti semitic in the least, nor a racist, and he surely knows his history better then most! He got legislation passed to undue a terrible legacy in Virginia. I am of Melungeon descent, and I am well aware of George Allen’s advocacy on behalf of my ancestors, and other people’s ancestors, who were devastated by the legacy of Walter Ashby Plecker, Infamous Eugenist and Nazi sympathizer.
Laree, Allen referred to questions about his Jewish background as “casting aspersions!” He’s one of those Confedreate Flag nuts! It is reputed the man threw around the “N” word like a common pronoun when he was young – and this ain’t 1940’s Robert Byrd “young,” this is 1970’s george Allen “young!”
Man, if this is what you guys calls a friend…
JMJ
And Laree, know your very recent history: Israel has become a cause celebre in the Republican party in very recent years to pander to the latest apocalyptic evangelical revival popular in the South and Flyovercountry.
Do you really believe people like Allen really care one way or the other about Jews? C’mon. Get real. They don’t even care about their fellow Americans. They only care about two things – getting power and money for themselves.
JMJ
I am not going to respond to a “superficial” accounting of a man, who has done more for minorities and unduing the ugly legacy of one of the most infamous Eugenist in Virginia History. Senator George Allen is responsible for that Legislation. I PAY ATTENTION to Actions not Words. That is “Superficial” repeating a soundbyte looped in the MSM “news cable cycle” A Media that has admitted to having a Liberal Bias. A Propaganda Arm of the Democrat Party.
Google George F Allen and Walter Plecker, read about what he did, instead of repeating Liberal Media Soundbytes. I am well aware how the Media “Superficially” targets People in the Public Eye, using soundbytes for their own Liberal Agenda.
Senator James Webb who won George Allen’s old seat ADMITTED to using the same language, you ACCUSE George Allen of using. What has Senator James Webb done for Minorities or Jewish people in Viriginia? George Allen got legislation passed.
Superficial, huh? I wonder what you’d say if a Democrat or a “liberal” had the same rep.
And what the heck has George Allen, of all people, ever “done more for minorities.” This, I’d love to hear. And, “unduing the ugly legacy of one of the most infamous Eugenist in Virginia History”??? What does that even mean? Thousands of politicians, scientists, activists, you-name-it, have debunked and defamed the miserable legacy of Eugenics. You think Allen did more than any of them?
As for racist slurs: Webb ADMITTED it. Allen DENIED it. A REAL man admits. A COWARD denies.
Webb was just elected 2 years ago and only now will have the chance to make real change and improvement. Give him a chance in the Senate before you make up your mind with zero evidence to go on. As for the rest of his life, it sounds to me like you need to learn more about him. The man has lead an impressive life, and has taken stands and actions that both you and I would see differently. There are things about him that I dont like and you probably would and vice versa, etc.
Allen, on the other hand, has done some things politically that I find quite laudable, other’s that I find deplorable, but his personal reputation is just terrible. You really should read about it. Even from his own family. Just aweful. This is the kind of guy who should never have power, even if he does do some good. Sounds like a sociopath.
JMJ
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2004/09/the_black_white.php
Plecker’s racial records were largely ignored after 1959, when his handpicked successor retired. Virginia schools were fully integrated in 1963 and, four years later, the state’s ban on interracial marriage was ruled unconstitutional. In 1975, the General Assembly repealed the rest of the Racial Integrity Act.
Virginia has tried to erase Plecker’s legacy. It has established councils on Indian affairs and has conferred official state recognition on eight tribes, a designation that provides no privileges. But Indian leaders say recognition equals respect.
In 1997, then-Gov. George F. Allen simplified procedures for people to correct inaccurate birth records. Hearl had her race changed from black to Indian.
“I know who I am and I’m proud of it,” she said. The going has been tougher in Washington, where Virginia Indians are trying to join 562 tribes around the country that are federally recognized. The Bush administration has been unwilling to ease application rules.
Allen, now a U.S. senator, is again championing the Indians’ cause. The Republican has authored legislation that would bypass bureaucratic requirements and allow Congress to federally recognize the tribes. Allen, during a Senate hearing last year, lamented Virginia’s racist past.
“Virginia Indians were not extended the rights offered to other U.S. citizens, and the years of discrimination and coercive policies took a tremendous toll,” he said.
The bill has been approved by a key Senate committee and may come up for a floor vote later this year.
“You will have to do something about this matter and see that this child is not allowed to mix with white children. It cannot go to white schools and can never marry a white person in Virginia.
“It is a horrible thing.”
Plecker’s no-nonsense approach made him a celebrity within the eugenics movement, which was increasingly losing support among scientists and becoming a platform for white supremacy. He spoke around the country, was widely published and wrote to every governor in the nation to urge passage of racial laws just as tough as Virginia’s. He dined at the New York home of Harry H. Laughlin, the nation’s leading eugenics advocate and an unabashed Nazi sympathizer.
In 1932, Plecker gave a keynote speech at the Third International Conference on Eugenics in New York. Among those in attendance was Ernst Rudin of Germany who, 11 months later, would help write Hitler’s eugenics law.
In 1935, Plecker wrote to Walter Gross, the director of Germany’s Bureau of Human Betterment and Eugenics. He outlined Virginia’s racial purity laws and asked to be put on a mailing list for bulletins from Gross’ department. Plecker complimented the Third Reich for sterilizing 600 children in Algeria who were born to German women and black men. “I hope this work is complete and not one has been missed,” he wrote. “I sometimes regret that we have not the authority to put some measures in practice in Virginia.”
Plecker wrote to Gross on state stationery. He sold copies of eugenics books in his office. He was occasionally rebuked for turning official publications into diatribes against racial interbreeding and mailing them at government expense. And when the Racial Integrity Act failed to meet his needs, Plecker stretched it.
He pressured superintendents to remove children from white schools based on complaints that they had “negro” features. “As to deciding the point of race, you and the sheriff, and any other intelligent citizen of your community, are as capable of judging from the appearance of the child as the most learned scientist,” Plecker wrote one superintendent. “There is absolutely no blood or other test to determine the question.”
Plecker demanded the removal of bodies from white cemeteries. He tried to evict a set of twins from a Presbyterian orphanage because they were illegitimate and, therefore, the “chances are 10-1 they are of negro blood.”
Plecker maintained that all of his racial designations were based on impeccable records. There was, however, a secret Plecker revealed to only a few trusted allies: A lot of the time he was just guessing.
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Walter Plecker The Nazis Eugenics Program.
http://george.loper.org/trends/2000/Nov/73.html
IBM provided the whole punch machine
http://news.cnet.com/Probing-IBMs-Nazi-connection/2009-1082_3-269157.html
Walter Ashby Plecker used his system on NON White Virginians before he shared his Eungenics program with the Nazis.
That would be Minorities and Jewish People- Walter Ashby Plecker helped destroy the lives of…so who sponsored a Bill to undue the TERRIBLE UGLY EUGENICS HISTORY OF WALTER ASHBY PLECKER?
That would be Senator George F Allen, Thank You So Very Much Senator George Allen. All The Best to You, and Your Family.
Laree, you’re starting to sound like a one-hit wonder here. So George Allen, rightly and laudably, reversed an old racist record-keeping policy regarding native Americans from years and years ago. That’s very nice. I’m glad.
Should I send him a medal?
Does this mean that every other insipid and wrong thing the man ever did or said should be excused?
Shall I build a staatue of Allen and worship at it?
Is it really even that big of a deal? So, they’re fixing the old birth records so they didn’t say “colored” and “mixed-blood negroes” and whatnot regharding natives. Okay. Well, that’s a good thing. But it’s not exactly some great crusade against eugenics. Eugenics was repudiated by the most of the world years ago, long before George Allen reversed a record keeping terminology.
C’mon man. Don’t you have anything substantial to point up? you sound like Tom Tancredo – one, long, monotonous note.
JMJ
Sounds like Jersey has nothing but an opinion left at the end of this.
To top if off he might of missed the part where Laree said;
“I am of Melungeon descent, and I am well aware of George Allen’s advocacy on behalf of my ancestors, and other people’s ancestors, who were devastated by the legacy of Walter Ashby Plecker, Infamous Eugenist and Nazi sympathizer.”
Obviously he has failed to reckognize the personal nature of Larees position and how much Allens actions have meant to her.
He instead belittles her stance as one of non substance and not such a big deal.
On the other hand, if Laree did not have a personal investment there is still enough factual relative info presented by Laree to anchor the position as opposed to Jerseys typical insistance that his opinion is more valid as a barometer of Allens accomplishments.
In the face of massive substance the head returns to the sand and you here the muffled cry :
“C’mon man. Don’t you have anything substantial to point up?”
I’m sorry, Laree could just as well be a guy.
I guess its the spelling that throws me off.
Speaking of spelling. Here would be hear.
I a woman Micky 2,
I am a Gibson descendant, we married into Collins identified Saponi, Scroll down in this link on wikipedia, to the sub groups, of the sub groups. The Southern Democrats, used to take my ancestors to court, to prove we were white enough and able to vote. Why? We voted the Party of Lincoln he freed a lot of people.
Check out Dave Mudcat Sanders that is who helped get Senator James Webb elected.
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/08/22/dave-mudcat-saunders-is-an-idiot-and-no-democrat-should-hire-him/
Take a look at this photo of him above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon
Collins, Gibson, Bunch, Goins, some of the core surnames for Melungeons there is also a Core Melungeon DNA project that is being ran by Jack Goins. Check the link I left the first time for Plecker Letters he identified the Gibsons among others and what Counties they could be found inhabiting. Walter Ashby Plecker left an ugly legacy and it was as late as the date of the Bill above introduced by Senator George F Allen, who was trying to undue some of the damage, Plecker had done. He destroyed a lot of people’s lives.
Well, like I said, it’s nice that Allen changed the record keeping rules (? – I’m really sure what exactly he did). Has there been any tangible benefit accrued from Allen’s (action?)? I mean, what exactly did Allen do and did it actually help anyone other than in clearing up old birth records to show Native-Americanship?
JMJ
You don’t understand how Indian Tribal Idenity Works? PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY LOST THEIR TRIBAL STATUS. IT JUST GOT TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE RECLASSIFIED. That may mean abosultley nothing to you But it means a helluva of a lot to people, who WERE BASICALLY CLASSIFIED as something Else (Negro) then Walter Ashby Plecker, and all his Eugenic Buddys, decided they needed to be “Sterilized” so they wouldn’t infect the WHITE RACE IN VIRGINIA. The NAZIS really appreciated Walter Ashby Plecker’s Eugenics Program so much, that they got together and shared what he used in his Eugenics Program so they could determine who was of Jewish Ancestry- couple that with the Whole Punch Machine provided by IBM. Do You understand the outcome of that?
You want to know why it is important, and why it makes a difference educate yourself, I am not here to Teach You.
“Virginians thought of themselves as more progressive than their neighbors to the south,” said Gregory M. Dorr, a University of Alabama history professor who is writing a book on eugenics. “There was a feeling that we don’t need to do lynching or the KKK. We’re not savage. We can handle our problems in a rational way.”
The leader of the state movement was John Powell of Richmond, an internationally acclaimed pianist and composer who would work closely with Plecker for more than a quarter of a century. Powell was rich, well-connected and a compelling speaker.
Plecker stayed behind the scenes, supplying Powell with copies of all the major correspondence of his office and drafting racial separation bills for the legislature’s consideration.
Their work paid off in 1924 when the General Assembly passed the Racial Integrity Act and a mandatory sterilization law that would be invoked 8,300 times over the next 55 years.
Although 31 states would pass eugenics laws, none was tougher than Virginia’s.
Indian schools did not go beyond eighth grade. White schools were off-limits. Black schools were not an option for most Indians because attending them would be a concession to Plecker’s racial classifications.
“We were the third race in a two-race state,” said Stephen Adkins, chief of the Chickahominy tribe. “I remember once traveling with my father, and we pulled into a gas station because I had to go to the bathroom and there was one bathroom marked ‘white’ and one bathroom marked ‘colored.’ I said, ‘Dad, what do I do?’ “
After his retirement, Plecker planned to write a book about the decline of the white race. Before he had a chance, he stepped into traffic without looking.
Legend has it that he was hit by a bus. “I know it’s kind of cruel to say this, but I hope the last thing he saw was an Indian driving that bus,” said Sue Elliott, Hearl’s daughter.
The truth is that he was hit by a car driven by Kenneth R. Berrell, whose racial origins have fallen into oblivion. Plecker died in a hospital two hours later. It was 1947.
Plecker’s racial records were largely ignored after 1959, when his handpicked successor retired. Virginia schools were fully integrated in 1963 and, four years later, the state’s ban on interracial marriage was ruled unconstitutional. In 1975, the General Assembly repealed the rest of the Racial Integrity Act.
Virginia has tried to erase Plecker’s legacy. It has established councils on Indian affairs and has conferred official state recognition on eight tribes, a designation that provides no privileges. But Indian leaders say recognition equals respect.
In 1997, then-Gov. George F. Allen simplified procedures for people to correct inaccurate birth records. Hearl had her race changed from black to Indian.
“I know who I am and I’m proud of it,” she said. The going has been tougher in Washington, where Virginia Indians are trying to join 562 tribes around the country that are federally recognized. The Bush administration has been unwilling to ease application rules.
Allen, now a U.S. senator, is again championing the Indians’ cause. The Republican has authored legislation that would bypass bureaucratic requirements and allow Congress to federally recognize the tribes. Allen, during a Senate hearing last year, lamented Virginia’s racist past.
“Virginia Indians were not extended the rights offered to other U.S. citizens, and the years of discrimination and coercive policies took a tremendous toll,” he said.
The bill has been approved by a key Senate committee and may come up for a floor vote later this year.
The legislation faces major opposition in the House of Representatives, however, where Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Fairfax County, has raised concern that federal recognition would open the door to Indian-run casinos in Virginia. The tribes, most of them devout Christians, say they oppose gaming. Allen and Gov. Mark R. Warner say there are many safeguards that would prevent casinos from opening in the Old Dominion.
The Virginia tribes are moving decisively. Six have banded together to ask Congress for help. They have brought Plecker’s story to Capitol Hill, hired a lobbyist and meet regularly to plan strategy, which includes deciding whether to participate in the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement in 2007.
Indian leaders say that’s a big change from the days not long ago when all of the tribes went separate ways.
“We have a bond now,” Adkins, the Chickahominy chief, said. “It’s kind of ironic, but Plecker has made us stronger.”
Information for this story was gathered from interviews, books on the history of eugenics and the collection of Plecker’s writings on file in the John Powell papers, kept in the special collections department of the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.
Laree.
Dont fall for it.
Jersey likes to act as if he cant see the obvious and just goes on as if nothing was made clear so as to make it look like you have no valid arguement.
You could spell it out and make it as clear as day with pictures, documents, even an audio presentation and he would till say “so whats your point , I dont see what you’re getting at”
He wont appreciate whats been done for your people because then he would have to conciede to Allens worthyness.
And you know he doesnt want to do that.
Laree, really, I get it. Don’t ever assume what I “don’t understand.” So Allen changed the record system. That’s great. Some people aren’t ancestrally “black” in the old public records anymore.
I actually watched the debates about recognizing more tribes and opening up the recognition process (I’m a C-Span junkie). It was pretty wild. I don;t recall what Allen had to say, though. But he was never one of the more colorful Senators. I do recall Allen getting caught up a little in the Abramoff/Reed scam where they were taking indian tribe lobbying money that was ostensibly for getting casinos and funneling it to rightwing anti-casino groups. How’d that work out?
I don’t know what you’re all whooped up about. Does that excuse everything else the man has ever done? Heck, I can’t think of a single Democrat who wouldn’t have done the same thing. So what? Hooray for Allen, he’s not a complete bigot? Sounds to me like he did it to get casinos. How’d that work out? Who cares? He’s gone now. And I really don’t care one way or the other whether indians have casinos or not.
JMJ
Mickey 2,
I do understand, and I want to take this opportunity to THANK SENATOR GEORGE F ALLEN Again. THANK YOU.
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George F Allen did something about unduing Walter Ashby Pleckers ugly RACIST legacy in Virginia. Walter Ashby Plecker, Infamous eugenist and Nazi sympathizer. George F Allen is neither a Racist or an Anti Semitic.
So all that stuff about George Allen throwing around the “N” word like rice at a wedding, or that infamous comment about how being called Jewish is a “aspersions,” all that’s okay with you, huh? What about Abrbramoff and the casinos? Don’t care at all huh?
Oh no! But George Allen change a reord system! He single-handedly undid racism in Virginia! Oh thank you George Allen! Thank you thank you thank you!
I can’t even take this seriously anymore.
What a joke.
Legacy of Walter Plecker, my …. No one even remembers that shmuck anymore. It was a HECKOFALOT more than just one man doing all that, Laree. And Virginia still has a looooooong way to go. If that’s all it takes to satisfy you, than you’re just an easy mark.
George Allen is gone now, his reputation is in ruin, and rightly so. So he did one thing that made YOU happy. The heck with everyone else, right? And who cares if he just did it to get casinos or misappropriate Indian PAC money, right?
Like I said – What a joke.
JMJ
I do understand, and I want to take this opportunity to THANK SENATOR GEORGE F ALLEN Again. THANK YOU.
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Here is a story about Senator Allen’s opponent Jim Webb, a.k.a.
James Webb, that you will NEVER see on the Saddemocrat controlled
media:
“Webb’s alleged use of a racial epithet
In late September, Webb was asked if he had ever used the “N-word.”
Webb replied that “I don’t think that there’s anyone who grew up
around the South that hasn’t had the word pass through their lips at
one time in their life.” Webb noted that that word and a lot of
other epithets were in “Fields of Fire,” a novel Webb wrote about
the Vietnam War.
Allen campaign officials referred reporters to Dan Cragg, a former
acquaintance of Webb’s. Craig said that Webb told him in 1983 that
Webb and members of his ROTC unit at the University of Southern
California would “hop into their cars, and would go down to Watts ,”
taking fake rifles, yell out epithets, “point the rifles at them,
pull the triggers and then drive off laughing.”
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_United_States_Senate_election%
2C_2006#Webb.27s_alleged_use_of_a_racial_epithet