“I thought of it as a nonsense word. If I had known the nickname could be considered a racial slur, I would not have said it.”
— The explanation former Sen. George Allen gives in his new book, “What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports,” for calling S.R. Sidarth “Macaca” in 2006. The book was released Tuesday.
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