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Black Caucus Warns Harry Reid
NewsMax ^ | 12-30-04

Posted on 12/30/2004 5:16:08 PM PST by hope

Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 2:55 p.m. EST

Black Caucus Warns Harry Reid

The Congressional Black Caucus has told Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., that he crossed the line earlier this month when he called Justice Clarence Thomas "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court."

"We wrote a letter to Sen. Reid cautioning him about his comments," incoming CBC Chairman Mel Watt, D-N.C., told radio host Steve Malzberg, who was filling in Wednesday on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" show. "I think all of us ought to focus more on substance and less on stereotypes and caricatures," Watt said.

Sen. Reid delivered the personal insult to Thomas during a Dec. 5 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," after host Tim Russert asked him whether he thought the lone black justice was qualified to head the court.

"I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court," Reid said, before adding: "I think that his opinions are poorly written. I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice."

With the announcement that the Black Caucus had reprimanded Reid for his attack on Justice Thomas, Rep. Watt becomes the first Democrat to publicly acknowledge that the senator's remarks were racially offensive.

Listen to Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter, 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays, WWRL-AM 1600, simulcast on the Web at wwrl1600.com/mainframe.html.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbc; clarencethomas; harryreid; melwatt; reid
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To: libertyman

I'm not so sure about that...I think he made that idiotic remark to tell President Bish to not even THINK about nominating Justice Thomas for the position of being Chief Justice because it might (???) possibly move a few more black votes off the Dims plantation...not for racist reasons.


And wanting to keep people on a plantation....rather than gaining their support by treating them as equals and sharing power with them isn't racism?


81 posted on 12/30/2004 9:19:13 PM PST by gogipper
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To: Bonaparte

Good point...wonder what turned the tide?


82 posted on 12/30/2004 9:50:00 PM PST by hope (GOP: It gets the Blue out.)
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To: hope

I think what "turned the tide" was the fact that the bigot (who is white) was sitting right next to them this time.


83 posted on 12/30/2004 10:01:28 PM PST by Bonaparte (Of course, it must look like an accident...)
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To: mabelkitty

"It will also give them a chance to throw her overboard"

That makes sense - I agree that she's about the last person that the Dems wanted in Congress.

Thanks


84 posted on 12/30/2004 10:22:54 PM PST by BobL
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To: AM2000

the ice only gets thinner in the direction you are heading. Look around and see where you are at.


85 posted on 12/30/2004 10:27:11 PM PST by fish hawk
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To: cyborg

I really hadn't ever paid any attention to Reid until about a month ago...and after watching 5 or 6 interviews...I can say the guy is about as slanted and dim as they come. He may have grown up in some small town in Neveda...but the guy reminds me of some used car dealer...saying something that you'd want him to say...but its in way that you couldn't trust him. For the democrats...they really have slipped on picking him...but its their loss...not mine.


86 posted on 12/30/2004 10:32:46 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Brilliant

Reed is a racist.


And, the more he "sings" the better for our cause!!!


87 posted on 12/30/2004 10:48:36 PM PST by danamco
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To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
The Congressional Black Caucus has told Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., that he crossed the line earlier this month when he called Justice Clarence Thomas "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court."

Or in other words, in their petty little minds, it's OK for THEM to verbally attack Thomas since he's black, but it's not OK for anyone else to?

The double-standard in America continues.

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88 posted on 12/31/2004 4:14:12 AM PST by mhking
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To: risk
I wish Reid would give us something more concrete.

To do so, Reid would have had to have read at least one of CT's decisions. What do you think the chances of a political hack like Reid having read even one of those decisions, or that he would be able to point out a Constitutional flaw if there were one?

Reid was just playing the boilerplate stereotype that the Rats always play against black conservatives but he let his words slip off the narrow ledge to imply that all blacks are stupid. That's why he's getting his weinne whacked by the CBLC.

Coming from Nevada, Reid is simply not as experienced at playing the race card as the majority of Rats are.

89 posted on 12/31/2004 6:50:21 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: libertyman

He has a mixed record on that which defies explanation. One thing about him is clear, though. He votes for more spending at every opportunity, and the more the better.


90 posted on 12/31/2004 9:23:00 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: hope

Don't hold your breath for hate-filled Harry's rascist attitudes to all y'all to change, Representative Watt.

How many black 'bishops' are their in Harry's [LDS] 'church,' yet?

How many 'saints?'

Not too darned many, that's for sure!


91 posted on 12/31/2004 10:02:01 AM PST by Brian Allen (For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord -- Luke 2:11)
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To: hope

What does the Congressional White Caucus have to say about this?


92 posted on 12/31/2004 10:13:34 AM PST by Syncro
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To: hope
Merely a bitch slap to put Reid in his place..
They are on the same team.. Black Caucus wants a bit of respect..
Some cowering will do however.. Slapping the donkey on the ass is what these guys do...
Cleaning up what the donkey does on the floor is what republicans are supposed to do..
And they doo sometimes.. but rarely.. Washington D.C. is ripe and reeks..

Asking the black caucus to pick up a shovel is probably considered racist by them.. or a job for Justice Thomas.. with his homey Scalia..

93 posted on 12/31/2004 10:25:36 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: mhking
Or in other words, in their petty little minds, it's OK for THEM to verbally attack Thomas since he's black, but it's not OK for anyone else to?

You got that right.

Happy New Year, mhking.

94 posted on 12/31/2004 11:08:44 AM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: hope

Black voters should also ponder that whenever MSM published anything about Bobby Jindal, they always said he is "dark-skinned" and seldom noted that he is a brilliant, accomplished, CHRISTIAN young man!


95 posted on 12/31/2004 4:47:06 PM PST by WaterDragon
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