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"But in late August, she told him the truth -- "We sat across the table and he said, 'Mom, there's a rumor that Pop-pop and Mom-mom were Jewish and so were you,'" she recounts. But she made him promise not to tell anybody else, even his own family -- "I said, well, I just didn't want anyone to know. I had said, 'Please don't tell your brothers and sister and your wife.'"

-----Don't really get the "Please don't tell your brothers and sister and your wife. But I don't know why his mom would still be ashamed to discuss it.

" What better way than a press conference announcing he just found out he had a Jewish heritage, and was proud of it? The questions about him "hiding" it would be answered, and "macaca" would be history. But Allen didn't do that. A simple political act that would likely seal the election for him, and he refused. Why? Because his mother asked him to keep her private life private. Instead of telling the world, he kept quiet as the rumors and attacks continued."

There is no privacy in politics. Besides, is this the author's rationale or Allen's.

Regardless of the cycle of events, he has worse problems on his hands with the rumors of animal heads in mailboxs and supposedly using the n-word regularly, which alot of people probably did growing up in the South as a young kid or young man. Now a days, the N-word is used regularly in black conversation. I wonder if any black politician has ever used it? Where is the outrage.

Allen needs to make a couple of concise statements and move on from this tar baby. oops.