The Daily Background

Oh-ho-ho. Everybody’s favorite racist Senator, George ‘let’s welcome macaca here to America‘ Allen has been linked to a racist group called the “Council of Conservative Citizens,” which evidently evolved out of some extremely racist people. The Nation has the scoop:

Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.

In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations, he strode to a booth at the entrance of the exhibition hall festooned with two large Confederate flags–a booth operated by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), at the time a co-sponsor of CPAC. After speaking with CCC founder and former White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum and two of his cohorts, Allen suggested that they pose for a photograph with then-National Rifle Association spokesman and actor Charlton Heston. The photo appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the CCC’s newsletter, the Citizens Informer.

We already know that Senator Allen (R-Virginia, up for re-election this year) has an affinity for confederate flags and proudly displays not one but two of them in his home. He has also displayed them in his office when he was governor, as well as a noose. Allen has opposed Martin Luther King holidays, and honored the confederacy without mentioning slavery in his time as governor.

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