OK

let's not be afraid of the boogey black man. Let's be afraid of  Arabic terroriosts at home,  imams, mullahs, sleeper cells, fathers who kidnap their daughters  for rape, homeless people, postal workers, gay people, Koreans ( fairly recently) and more and more.   Let's be afraid of people of ' Middle Eastern' descent, people with beards, with accents,  Sikhs, Gurks, Australians, but  not the ones with guns because we all have guns, right?

Mr. Scott, I  accept your position wholeheartedly but please, if you want to raise your voice against the fearmongering, do not forget to  defend not only the black men. Sorry, the fearmongering touches everybody and so far we need those voices like yours to  raise against it.

by Mark Sashine (53 articles, 19 quicklinks, 249 diaries, 3574 comments) on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 10:31:17 AM
 

So his defence essentially was

.....'I felt threatened and when confronted by a threatening looking black man...it's best to offer him a blowjob and $20'??? ...besides on planet Allen, on what planet did he figure the 'Deliverance' defence was going to play well with a judge and an electorate?

I suppose the idea of claiming a clearcut case of entrapment by the cop eluded Allen.

Sooo to him as a republican, was playing upon a racist sentiment better than admitting he was played by an attractive african american cop who according to the transcript was clearly trying to entrap him.

This is the proverbial 'race card' being played here with blatant hypocritical homophobic themes. Yet I suppose as your article implies there's a race card being played everyday; which as the current immigration debate itself has that element of 'fear of a nonwhite planet' at its base.

Something that tugs at the nervestrings of the irrational.

As a darkskinned male living in europe I know what it's like walking down a street and having someone cross the street out of needless fear and ignorance. At that moment you either laugh it off or scratch your head and say 'damn!'....but somewhere underneath it always hurts. And knowing that anyway you could've played it it would still have found justification in that other person's mind.

The world turns slower than most people think as you'd think that we'd moved beyond all that by now. That something like Rep Allen could have conceived that such a story would have found receptive minds.

To add to the hypocrisy.... Rep.Bob Allen's the one who sponsored legislation that toughened penalties for lewd or lascivious conduct and created a new provisions that makes it possible for some sexual predators to receive life prison sentences.

The bill was named the "Sexual Predator Elimination Act."

Before his 2006 re-election, Allen had received a 92 percent rating from the Christian Coalition of Florida.

by chariotdrvr14 (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 134 comments) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 8:03:51 AM