According to ABC News The Note, the New Republic has a profile of George Allen that might interest those who have been debating the Vote for Cuomo-Not the Homo issue.
Some highlights –
"Another classmate, who asks that I not use her name, also remembers Allen’s obsession with Dixie: ‘My impression is that he was a rebel. He plastered the school with Confederate flags."
"It was the night before a major basketball game with Morningside High.The mostly black inner-city school adjacent to Watts was coming to the almost entirely white Palos Verdes High to play. When students arrived at school on game day, they found graffiti spray-painted on the school library and other places. All five people who described the incident say the graffiti was racially tinged and meant to look like the handiwork of the black Morningside students. But it was actually put there by Allen and some of his friends. ‘It was something like die whitey,’ says Campbell."
"Lizza reports that Allen is wearing a Confederate flag pin in his Palos Verdes, California high school yearbooka fact which Lizza later gets Allen’s staff to confirm."
I wonder if all those who have said that Andrew was only 19 at that time and should be forgiven because he has not committed any anti-gay acts since then will rush to defend Allen, since he was younger than 19 and according to the New Republic –
"Sen. Allen has made to try to "make amends for his old pro-Dixie stances" (like sponsoring an anti-lynching resolution in the Senate and traveling to Birmingham, AL on a "civil rights pilgrimage,")"