Well, That Takes Care of the Blacks and the Indians. Who's Next? Because of the Push to Build the Great Wall of Texas, I'm Betting Its the Latinos

At a campaign rally in southwest Virginia on Friday, Allen repeatedly called a volunteer for Democrat James Webb 'macaca.' During the speech in Breaks, near the Kentucky border, Allen began by saying that he was 'going to run this campaign on positive, constructive ideas' and then pointed at S.R. Sidarth in the crowd.

"This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent. He's following us around everywhere. And it's just great," Allen said, as his supporters began to laugh. After saying that Webb was raising money in California with a "bunch of Hollywood movie moguls," Allen said, "Let's give a welcome to macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." Allen then began talking about the "war on terror."

Depending on how it is spelled, the word macaca could mean either a monkey that inhabits the Eastern Hemisphere or a town in South Africa. In some European cultures, macaca is also considered a racial slur against African immigrants, according to several Web sites that track ethnic slurs.

"Macaca," it's the new "Tar Baby."

But what's most disconcerting about this is that the Virginian of Indian descent he was talking about had a mullet. I can take the racial slurs. Having taken them most of my life, I've got the social tools to hear and react to them in positive and acceptable ways that don't require police intervention, lawyers, and prison bitches. I can live with racial slurs. I don't like them, but I can live with hearing them. Mullets on peoples of color, though: That shit's got to stop.