NAACP Rep. Says Reid "No Negro Dialect" Remark was "Awkward" but is Not "Offensive" - Video 1/11/10

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | January 11, 2010 | Brian

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is video of an NAACP representative on Fox News today where he defended Sen. Harry Reid as a "champion for Civil Rights." This despite comments by Reid were revealed in a new book where he said Barack Obama could be accepted by the American people because he is "light-skinned" and because he has "no Negro Dialect" unless he wants to have one. Reid made the remarks privately during the 2008 Campaign.

The NAACP Rep. said that Reid's words were "awkward, but not "offensive."

"The way he said it was quite awkward, but nonetheless, not offensive. That what he said was actually part of a calculus as to why he believed Barack Obama could be elected in this country today."

Somehow, if any Republican had made these comments I doubt seriously this would be the reaction of the NAACP.

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[MHGinTN]

Racist negores on parade ... Trent Lott was crucified for saying far less but he’s a Republican and racist negroes always attack the Republican for anything even remotely construed as racial tinted. Harry the disgusting could call Al a ni_ _er and the NAACP would find a way to dismiss it as ‘misconstrued’.

[MHGinTN]

Actually, that was ‘the next fifty years’.

[CottShop]

[[NAACP Rep. Says Reid “No Negro Dialect” Remark was “Awkward” but is Not “Offensive” - Video 1/11/10]]

We’ll remember that statement by the NAACP the nexct time a republican says somethign similar and the NAACP goes ballistic

[kevao]

"Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the U.S., and for what? So we can appoint a president that's blacker than any Indian. I am depressed."

[GovernmentShrinker]

I have a soft spot for the NAACP, even though I honestly don’t know much about their policies and activities. Their steadfast refusal to join in the semantic circus of ever-changing politically correct terms for people with some African ancestry is a great public service. Whatever it is they believe and do, they’re focused on the substance of it, and not on silly speech police stuff.

[screaminsunshine]

National Association of Communist People.

[imfrmdixie]

You may very well be correct in your “next fifty years”. I found the quote on this site.

http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/leftwingracists.php

[screaminsunshine]

National Association of Colored Porchsitters.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

“awkward, but not “offensive.”
Ahh, the kindness and indulgence of this racist organization. Somehow I doubt that this kindness and indulgence would be given to ANY Republican no matter what the context.

[techcor]

LOL! I was hoping someone would do something like that.

[JoanneSD]

unless he wants to have one. IIRC Hillary screaming at a black event,, I have not come this far , to be defeated, in a black monologue, and then President Obama, the lite skinned negro, had to out do her with his Selma speech, about don't tell me I don't have roots here in selma, dont tell me.. my kenyan father, met my mother marching in selma, and thru this union I was born,..( even tho he was born 3 yrs earlier) . so dont tell me I dont have roots.. and he said this speel all in his negro tone

[Gator113]

If only these people not been dark skinned and not spoken in a Negro dialect. Right Reid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym5zjRRTqU0

[Samizdat]

So.....just what is a negro dialect?

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

"I hope they choke on their hypocrisy"

See my tagline...:-)

[Gator113]

Just in: Harry Reid has just revealed his new campaign song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii578-Z9m5o&feature=related

WARNING: May include Negro dialect.

[bjorn14]

Reid wasn’t being poltically correct....he should have said he doesn’t “speak in ebonics” or to be hipper he “doesn’t speak jive.”

[scottiemom]

Perhaps this is true. Hadn't considered it that way before.

What I do know is that if I was black during the fifties I wanted to be called a negro. If I was black during the sixties, I wanted to be called Afro-American. During the 70's-90's, I wanted to be called black. Then, this century, I wanted to be called African American. (It doesn't matter that I can't tell you which country in Africa I relate to, just that I am an African American.) Oh, incidentally I can call myself and other members of my race a n----r but if you do, you can be prosecuted.

It must be tough to have to get one's identity from the name they are known by, rather than from an innate sense of self-worth. As for me, I am who I am. You may call me a "white honky cracker" if you wish. I don't mind at all.

[GulfWar1Vet]

[MHGinTN]

I find it more offensive when the affirmative action fraud puts on a dialect to a predominantly black audience [when we all know only Michelle talks like that at home].

[workerbee]

And to think these are the people who had the audacity to call Condi Rice a “house n——r.”

Wow.