{"id":664,"date":"2006-09-26T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/09\/26\/thats-my-senator\/index.html"},"modified":"2006-09-26T13:42:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T17:42:45","slug":"thats-my-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/09\/26\/thats-my-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s my Senator!"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Allen, one of my senators<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Shelton said Allen frequently used the “N-word” to describe blacks and nicknamed him “Wizard” because of the similarity of his name to that of Robert Shelton, a former imperial wizard of the Alabama Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He also recounted an event from 1973 or 1974 in which he, Allen and a third friend were hunting deer. After the deer was killed, Shelton said, Allen cut off the doe’s head, asked for directions to the home of the nearest black person and shoved the head into that person’s mailbox.<\/p>\n

Taylor said that during a visit to Allen’s Charlottesville house in 1982, Allen pointed to turtles in a pond on his property and said only “the [epithets] eat them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Allen, one of my senators: Shelton said Allen frequently used the “N-word” to describe blacks and nicknamed him “Wizard” because of the similarity of his name to that of Robert Shelton, a former imperial wizard of the Alabama Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. 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