Daily Kos has an excellent post on what the Conservative Citizens Council really is, and how damning this picture is for George Allen.



Basically, with careful searching of hate groups' websites they have found that the CCC is a group well recognized by other hate groups as a white supremacist organization, and it shares membership with members of neo-Nazi and KKK other racist/supremacist groups.

Further, Allen can't pretend he didn't know who these guys were when he posed with them, he went out of his way to ally himself with the CCC as described by this article from the Nation.

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 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.

According to Baum, Allen had not naively stumbled into a chance meeting with unfamiliar people. He knew exactly who and what the CCC was about and, from Baum's point of view, was engaged in a straightforward political transaction. "It helped us as much as it helped him," Baum told me. "We got our bona fides." And so did Allen.


Descended from the White Citizens' Councils that battled integration in the Jim Crow South, the CCC is designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In its "Statement of Principles," the CCC declares, "We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races."

Macaca is not an isolated incident, Allen has been cultivating and exploiting racist feelings in Virginia for political gain for over a decade. Let's hope James Webb (contribute) can knock this racist, confederate flag-waving, noose-loving creep out of the Senate.