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==Controversy==
==Controversy==
On August 11, 2006, during his Senate reelection campaign, Allen used the word "macaca" to refer to S.R. Sidarth, who was filming the event as a "tracker" for the opposing Webb campaign. Sidarth is of [[Indian]] ancestry, but was born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia. Macaca means "monkey" in some [[African]] nations. Allen apologized and said that he did not know the meaning of the word. Nevertheless, the incident proved to be detrimental to his campaign as this and other gaffes led to his eventual defeat.
On August 11, 2006, during his Senate reelection campaign, Allen used the word "macaca" to refer to S.R. Sidarth, who was filming the event as a "tracker" for the opposing Webb campaign. Sidarth is of [[Indian]] ancestry, but was born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia. Macaca means "monkey" in some [[African]] nations. Allen apologized and said that he did not know the meaning of the word. Nevertheless, the liberal media pounced the incident and spent the rest of the campaign trying to prove that Allen was somehow a racist, even to the point of demanding that he state his ethnicity as a question in a campaign debate.
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