Here and There

I can’t help looking at a poll of the U.S. Senate race in Virginia and thinking, Okay, the X percent who are for Sen. George Allen (R) are perfectly okay with his racist remarks.

Does that make these poll-responders racist? I don’t like brandishing labels, but sometimes a spade is a spade (pun intended).

In case you’ve been in a coma, Allen was caught on camera in August referring to an American (native Virginian, no less) of Indian ancestry as “Macaca.” I don’t think anyone knows for sure what that slur means yet, but we can all bet Allen wasn’t using it politely.

So, according to the latest Washington Post poll, 49 percent of the great Commonwealth of Virginia is racist. Nice to have a number pinned down.

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