George Allen: Rebel flag was teen 'attitude.' Magazine reports on rebel symbols he had in school

Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 4/30/6 | Peter Hardin and Tyler Whitley

[Crackingham]

Sen. George Allen, who has tried to reach out to minority voters in recent years, wore a Confederate flag pin on his shirt collar in a high-school yearbook photo, a national magazine reported yesterday. As a high school student in Palos Verdes, Calif., Allen was seen riding in or driving a Ford Mustang with either a Confederate flag license plate or Confederate flag imagery on the car, The New Republic quoted witnesses as saying.

The Virginia Republican, seeking re-election now and weighing a presidential bid in 2008, was to depart today to co-host a civil-rights history tour for members of Congress to Southside Virginia. The topic is to be progress toward racial reconciliation. Allen staff confirmed that the pin in his yearbook picture depicted a Confederate flag. An Allen aide told the magazine the senator didn't remember a Confederate flag on his Mustang but that it was possible.

As a high school student in California, "I generally bucked authority and the rebel flag was just a way to express that attitude," Allen said in a written statement to the magazine. "Life is a learning experience and I have learned quite a bit in the ensuing 36 years."

He went on to discuss his belief in equal opportunity, his learning from participating in a civil-rights history tour to Alabama several years ago and his proposed Senate legislation to aid minority colleges.

Harris Miller, one of two Democrats seeking the nomination to run against Allen, said yesterday that he found Allen's explanation "pretty disingenuous" considering that while he held state office, he had "a troubling record on minority issues."

Miller cited Allen's issuance while governor of a "highly divisive" Confederate history and heritage month proclamation and his vote, while a member of the House of Delegates, against a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

"We need leaders who will celebrate all that we have in common rather than things that divide us," Miller said.

[mrsmith]

Something that happened in 2000 shows why the media is attacking his black support.

http://www.nprsucks.com/links.htm
"A local NAACP official has been suspended after urging members to support Republican George Allen in Virginia's U.S. Senate race. Paul C. Gillis was stripped of his post as Suffolk branch president last month by Kweisi Mfume, national president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In a letter, Mfume accused Gillis of violating NAACP policies against partisan political activity."

[archy]

Lots of connections with the old lone star and the bonnie blue

not surprising give many texicans came from the old southwest

Indeed. And there are even more *Bonnie Blue* similarities to the earlier Texas *Independence Flag* of Captain William Scott.

And when in November of 1835 the outnumbered Texians sent out an appeal for help against the Mexican army, the *Georgia Battalion* was organized in that state, drawing men from small towns and large. Their *Troutman* flag reversed the colors of the *Bonnie Blue,* with a blue star on a white background:

There's always been a solid link between the southern states of the USA and the Texas nation.

[Pharmboy]

Weeee-ooooh! My south has risen again!

[archy]

I'm asking a simple question, Why can't any of you confederate flag defenders condemn the people that did the most damage to the honor of the south, that of course being the Democrats?

Actually, I'd have said instead that Andrew Jackson and his New Democratic Party of the 1828 election might well have been the root cause, or at least the example, for much of the political [if ever-pragmatic!] corruption to follow in the South. But there were certainly equal ills among the anti- monarchical Whigs opposing the man they called King Andrew the First.

Perhaps that's why Jackson's portrait is on the 20-dollar bill, the going price for a bought vote through much of the XIX and XX Century.

[EternalVigilance]

Senator George Allen flip-flops on the "Assault Weapons Ban"

[Corin Stormhands]

ohfertheluvva...isn't there ~any~ issue you actually understand???????

[EternalVigilance]

Campaigning for the Senate four years ago, former Virginia Gov. George Allen stated he favored keeping in place the federal semi-auto ban, saying his goal in "fighting criminals was to enforce, not repeal, existing laws."

[EternalVigilance]

What's not to understand?

He was for the 'Assault Weapons Ban" before he was against it.

Is that statement inaccurate?

[Corin Stormhands]

[EternalVigilance]

Are you saying that your man is a 'dead horse candidate'?

[usmcobra]

When people today speak of the St.Andrew's cross used on the scottish flag what do they think of the one that flew from 1542 until now or the two others no one has seen used for over 400 years?

According to this confederate flag site what I have said so far is correct about The St. Andrew's flag, not only that but William Porcher Miles presented his design at St.Andrew's hall

Only his original design used instead a St. George's cross, again with the color inverted from the British flag as well as the moon and palm tree from the South Carolina flag.

I'm not wrong I just didn't explain everything to you because I didn't think it was absolutely necessary.

[sinkspur]

EV is a Keyster.

Unless Allen turns his back on a gay child or favors reparations for Michael Jordan, as Keyes does, he won't get EV's endorsement. No candidate will, unless EV can snag a paying position on his campaign gravy train.

[Corin Stormhands]

ohfereverluvvincryinoutloud...

you don't even understand cliches

[Corin Stormhands]

I've caught onto that. But I think the spelling is "keister."

[EternalVigilance]

Hey, while I've got you here, and since you seem to have access to the Allen staff ping list, maybe you could finally answer my question from days ago:

Does Allen support abortion up "until brain waves commence" or is it actually "until viability"?

There are, as you know, sources quoting him that could leave a person believing either...

[EternalVigilance]

ohfereverluvvincryinoutloud... you don't even understand cliches

Sure I do. I heard dozens of 'em in the last George Allen speech I heard...

[EternalVigilance]

Unless Allen turns his back on a gay child or favors reparations for Michael Jordan, as Keyes does, he won't get EV's endorsement. No candidate will, unless EV can snag a paying position on his campaign gravy train.

Okey-dokey, Deacon.

[sam_paine]

I'm a damnedyankee for crying out loud.

Actually, yer a "damnyankee" is the appropriate spelling.

[EternalVigilance]

He was for the 'Assault Weapons Ban" before he was against it.

Is that statement inaccurate?

[Colt .45]

NOW THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DISPLAY THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG!