As a catch-up, Allen West caught flack from NBC for his connections to these Hell's Angels wannabes. In the past, he has praised the protection the group provides, and with all the campaign Gestapo-types, editorial boards and TARP monsters out to get him, Lord knows he needs protection. Wheels On The Road, a pro-Outlaw magazine, loudly promotes West on its internet homepage, and has carried a monthly column by West. He had been scheduled to headline a Wheels event Friday before all this blew up on national news. And regardless of any Outlaws connection, his archives at Wheels offer some tremendous, if predictable, insight into how men talk, cataloged here by the Sun-Sentinel.
But he tells Hotline that he couldn't be a member of the Outlaws. They won't have him.
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In an interview with Hotline On Call West said flatly that the issue is a nonstarter because the club does "not accept blacks, Jews or gays" in their membership.
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West, of course, if black. But I'm pretty sure he isn't Gay or Jewish. He has gone out of his way to make clear his views on those groups. So I'm not even sure why he tossed that in.
But I love that West is coming out, saying the people he has proudly ridden the highways with are a bunch of racists he wouldn't let him in their group anyway. I love that a group featured often in the same pages where is zany rants see ink are a group that wouldn't associate with him, even though they run his words, carry his banner ads, and celebrate his 19-year-old ass-slapping ways.
I hope this man runs every year. I bet Ron Klein does too.
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