[ChurtleDawg]

I don't buy the idea that he didn't know what it meant either.
His mother was a French colonial in Africa---the words "macaca" and "macaque" were often used by French colonials when reffering to dark skinned Africans. It was their equivalent of the n- word. I am sure he probably heard her say it when he was younger.

His move in saying that to a dark skinned person videotaping his speech was downright idiotic.

I know that Czar Nicholas II used those words to denigrate the Japanese, as well.

[muawiyah]

Allen's mother was more a refugee from Nazism than a "colonial".

I'll bet she was startled to see them out in force in Virginia hunting her and her son down.