"But Senator George Allen is Jewish! As a Jewish- American, Senator George Allen should have shown a higher degree of sensitivity and care with regards to racist conduct. His mother, Henrietta Lumbroso, was a Jewish immigrant of Tunisian/Italian/French background. Trying to portray himself as a WASPY "good old boy" from Virginia just shows how dishonest, elitist, and racist he actually is."
Does anyone know if this is true?
"His mother, Henrietta Lumbroso, was a Jewish immigrant of Tunisian/Italian/French background."
If I understand it correctly, if his mother was Jewish, he can legitimately claim a Jewish heritage. It does not appear that he wishes to make that claim.
The more I learn about George Allen, the more he appears to be a man who has invented a personality that is mostly borrowed from idealized images that he's borrowed and adapted to suit himself. To his credit, he's gone very far with that invention- all the way to the Governor's mansion and the US Senate. The cowboy duds, the tobacco spit, and the easy smile all appear to be parts of a facade that disguises a much different person underneath.
Deconstruct the image of George Allen, take away his many props, and what is left? Are the values that he proclaims really his, or just part of the image that he projects-- key to holding onto the power he wants? He's been performing an act for a long time.
"immigrated from French Tunisia, and was "Italian, French and a little Spanish" and according to Allen, was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.[7] According to Allen's sister Jennifer, their mother "prided herself for being un-American. ... She was ashamed that she had given up her French citizenship to become a citizen of a country she deemed infantile." Allen's father was of Dutch-Irish and Scottish descent.... "Allen is a member of the Presbyterian Church."
With his mother's heritage, it is absolutely unbelievable that Allen portrays himself as the WASPY "good old boy" from the South.
According to Wikipedia, Allen has...
"a long history of interest in the Confederacy although he never lived in the South until he transferred from UCLA to the University of Virginia as a sophomore in college.
The May 8, 2006[10] and the May 15, 2006[11] issues of The New Republic reported extensively on Allen's long association with the Confederate flag. The magazine reported that "[a]ccording to his colleagues, classmates, and published reports, Allen has either displayed the [Confederate] flag--on himself, his car, inside his home--or expressed his enthusiastic approval of the emblem from approximately 1967 to 2000." Allen wore a Confederate flag pin for his high school senior class photo. In high school, college, and law school, Allen adorned his vehicle with a Confederate flag. In college he displayed a Confederate flag in his room. He displayed a Confederate flag in his family's living room until 1992. In 1993, Allen's first statewide TV campaign ad for governor included a Confederate flag. In 2000, when a voter told Allen, "Long live the Confederate flag!" Allen replied, "You got it!"
Allen has confirmed that the pin in his high school yearbook was a Confederate flag. Allen has said "it is possible" that he had a Confederate flag on his car in high school. He has not responded to the allegations that he displayed the flag on his pickup truck and in his room in college and law school. In 1993, he confirmed that he had long displayed the Confederate flag in his living room. Greg Stevens, the political consultant who made the 1993 TV ad, confirmed that the ad included a Confederate flag."
And how about the rest of this racist history?
1. The "noose" controversy
2. His opposition to the Rev. Martin L. King Jr. day
3. His recognition of past segregationists
4. The "macaca" incident
5. And there will be more
Virginians deserve better. Allen is even worse than I believed yesterday.
AND THE WORD KARMA IS AN INDIAN WORD.
DON'T FUCK WITH THE INDIANS.