Gotta love when the racism of senate Democrats slips out

I don't think it's a simple brush off, but knowing exactly the context of these statements is truly key. If you are doing an analysis the election of the first African American president of the USA and discussion the social climate surrounding it, these sorts of factors do come into play. To elect the first African American, most sociologists have agreed for years it would take one with rather light skin (often a reason Colin Powell was suggested as a potential as well). They weren't saying this things in any sort of racist way but very matter-of-factly (which honestly says more about white Americans than black Americans). That being said "Negro dialect" does take things a little too far--though the sociological analysis may be sound here too, it would be a very POOR way of wording it. Though I don't understand the full context of these words, I am pretty sure this was more of an off the top of his head/side conversation and not an official statement.

I am a conservative and while enjoying the downfall of Reid, I do not see the big deal. I do not see this as racism, I see this as simply stating facts. from mirriam webster - racism One entry found. Main Entry: rac·ism Pronunciation: \'ra-?si-z?m also -?shi-\ Function: noun Date: 1933 1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race 2 : racial prejudice or discrimination — rac·ist \-sist also -shist\ noun or adjective

lol... I don't know what the "Negro dialect" sounds like but my husband has a friend he met on a deployment and when he came home they were talking on the phone a lot and I started having conversations on the phone with him and I don't know what the subject was but he all the sudden he asked me "you know I'm black, right?" and I said no not that it matter anyways. He asked me how I couldn't tell he was black by the way he talked! ??? I found nothing unique in the way he talked... we had a long laugh. Seriously... what is a Negro Dialect? If it's the slang talk you see on MTV I've heard that from every different skin color there is. It's terrible that people have stereotypes like take in their head.

Gotta love how when it's a Republican saying someone stupid anyone who dares to even remotely imply they're in the least bit racist is read the riot act and there's an attempt here to humiliate the person who committed such a sin! I'll tell you what...I'll be more than happy to admit that both Senator Reid and Vice President Biden are horrible racists IF you give me one shred of evidence of it based on their many years of service. Annie

Now now,Im sure if you had just waited long enough this section would have been full of threads started by democrats who were outraged by Reid's remarks...... *crickets yep.....any minute now.......

Off course the liberal Democrats will brush it off. They don't want anyone to see their true colors. They want to keep poor people, black people and anyone else who voted for them in the exact same place that they want them. Under their control, on their "plantation", doing whatever they want. It's the new slavery without the physical chains. It really bugs me though when people, no matter what color they are, call Obama a black man when he isn't. And what is a "Negro" dialect anyway? Sincerely in Christ, Leesa C. Eph.2:8,9 "A Proud brown Hispanic third generation conservative Republican"

I think Reid hit the nail on the head with his remark about Obama. Obama did not need to be cleaned up in his physical appearance to be used as a perfect figure head to appease black American voters. Obviously with his constant use of a teleprompter he is not allowed to say a word of his own thinking. If he does not get coached on every word he usually says some kind of faux pas. This past election IMO was purely racial.

Well, that just further proves that the liberals are nothing more than a bunch of two-faced lying hypocrites. They have been calling everyone that disagrees with them and 0bamao racists haters and racists long before the election... yet these type of things show who the true racists really are. I don't like 0bamao because of his ideology, not because of his ethnicity...

I am a little tired of the "hey, sorry... I apologize for letting you know how I really think instead of being careful" type of excuses for these things. I am tired of the fact that the Democratic Party considers black Americans "theirs" and a voting bloc that belongs to the Dems. The real racism is in the Democratic Party, it shows every time they propose that they will do more for this minority or that minority than the other guys. That doesn't mean that programs which benefit minorities are wrong, but policies should be good for all America and all Americans. Programs that aid poorer students to get educational boosts are good for all America, for example. We need to realize that our social programs must do more than just appease one group or another. What's bad for America is this divisive demarcation of voters, as if we all should vote just to get what's going to benefit us specifically without regard to the harm it might do to the nation as a whole.

I remember when this was first said....I cringed. This was beyond "bad wording". His implications that Obama was a good candidate because he was not "too black" and "cultured" instead of "ghetto" were playing into stereotypes that african americans have been fighting against forever. He might as well said Obama is a good candidate for president for the black americans because he was a slightly darker skinned looking white person. That he looks and acts "white". Does that mean that "darker skinned" americans can not be president or a good candidate just because their shade of skin is darker than Obamas? I find that offensive and I am white. People should not be judged they their skin tone....but Reid was doing just that.That is what I get from his comment. Bad, bad, bad. That is like saying Hilary Clinton was a good candidate for women for president because she looks and acts like a man. That she is not femine and pretty. Therefore she would make a good candidate. Heaven forbid a woman be femine and pretty AND SMART. IT plays into the same stereotypes that women have been fighting for years. And I can bet the feminist would have eaten him alive for a comment about hilary or pelosi like that. Therefore I feel Reid needs to be eaten alive by the african american community for his beyond wrong statements.

I don't know a whole lot of what went down. Harry probably would never have apologised unless the book came out. so no surprises that it took him this long to say sorry about it. He probably forgot anyways. I doubt you would remember comments you made to a wannabe president almost 2 years ago.