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Was Harry Reid Right?
The Root ^ | January 10, 2010 | Omar Wasow

Posted on 01/10/2010 8:37:47 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 01/10/2010 8:37:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
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0be’s a mulatto American-African, w/o slave blood.


3 posted on 01/10/2010 8:42:44 PM PST by Paladin2
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I actually do not see anything wrong with what he said. He was basically stating the facts and the obvious ones at that.

What he should’ve said was ‘the problem is, the guys an inexperienced moron’.

But no matter, now he’s an experienced moron.


4 posted on 01/10/2010 8:43:11 PM PST by Beowulf9
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Harry is obviously a Doors fan...

"Texas Radio And The Big Beat" I wanna tell you about Texas Radio and the Big Beat Comes out of the Virginia swamps Cool and slow with plenty of precision With a back beat narrow and hard to master

Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance Others, mean and ruthful of the Western dream I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping This is the land where the Pharaoh died

The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat Comes out of the Virginia swamps Cool and slow with plenty of precision With a back beat narrow and hard to master

Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance Others, mean and ruthful of the Western dream I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping This is the land where the Pharaoh died

The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered They are saying, "Forget the night. Live with us in forests of azure. Out here on the perimeter there are no stars Out here we is stoned - immaculate."

Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night The meager food for souls forgot I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with raw iron soul

I'll tell you this No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat Soft drivin', slow and mad, like some new language

Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas I'll tell you 'bout the Texas Radio I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night Wandering the Western dream Tell you 'bout the maiden with raw iron soul

5 posted on 01/10/2010 8:48:04 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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barack is bino.(black in name only).


6 posted on 01/10/2010 8:48:18 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (You have only to be as brutal and ruthless as the Nazis and you will succeed in controlling prices.)
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THE NEWS IS THIS : REDI WAS CAUGHT TELLING THE TRUTH

HE should know better than that- Never let them negreos know how you feel, right Harry?

Show me one republcan (those EVIL RACISTS) ever caught saying that.

And senator Byrd is the ONLY KKK member in the senate!! (also a democrap)


7 posted on 01/10/2010 8:50:00 PM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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You are correct.....what reid said was correct and should, among normal people - black and white - should not be offensive.

The offense is the historical parameters of propriety regarding referencing a black man - THEY defined this as 'racist' when said with exactly the same intent and the same meaning by a conservative. Therefore reid has committed the greater sin than Trent Lott, because his is excused by virtue of the fact he is democrat, and lot is a conservative. Hypocricy damns Reid, not these words.

8 posted on 01/10/2010 8:51:22 PM PST by katlynne11 (I)
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Remember Warren Beatty’s BULWORTH ? This was a leftist wet dream, and the title hero engaged in down and dirty race talk. Small change in plans.


9 posted on 01/10/2010 8:51:52 PM PST by dr_lew
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He's "clean" too.
10 posted on 01/10/2010 8:56:21 PM PST by gigster
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maybe PHYSICALLY....


11 posted on 01/10/2010 8:58:49 PM PST by bitt (You canÂ’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak (Abraham Lincoln))
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Didn’t Biden make a similar remark when he was a candidate?


12 posted on 01/10/2010 9:01:08 PM PST by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”


13 posted on 01/10/2010 9:03:37 PM PST by digger48
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Reid doesn’t think he was right — Reid apologized.


14 posted on 01/10/2010 9:06:16 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (We have the 1st so that we can call on people to rebel. We have 2nd so that they can.)
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That’s right. I had forgotten all about “Bullworth.”


15 posted on 01/10/2010 9:06:47 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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I wonder how many Obama supporters will want their vote back now.

Obama yesterday accepted Reid’s apology for the remarks, in which he said the U.S. was ready to elect a black president, especially someone like Obama who is “light skinned” and speaks “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Actual blacks with nothing but Negro dialect should be outraged. They have been fooled by this White man in light Negro skin. It’s an outrage


16 posted on 01/10/2010 9:10:55 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

thanks nickcarraway.

Harry Reid: I’m not going anywhere (Claims Republican partisan witchhunt)
Politico | 1/10/10 | Manu Raju and David Rogers
Posted on 01/10/2010 1:41:14 PM PST by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2425350/posts


17 posted on 01/10/2010 9:11:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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So, given all the evidence that Reid was right, what's he apologizing for?

This might fall into the category of things blacks can discuss, but whites cannot discuss. The term "good skin" has long been used in the black community, and it means about what Harry Reid said.

But it was still a very dumb thing for a politician to say. We all know what would have happened if a prominent Republican had said the same thing that Reid or Biden said.

18 posted on 01/10/2010 9:39:07 PM PST by Will88
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I’m 53 years old. I am so, so, so very tired hearing this same kind of argument over and over and over again - always the same thing about this skin tone and that skin color and what is better and what is not as it concerns the amount of skin pigment. God, it’s tired. It is so, so, so very dull. The news that the left and Democrats are pigment obsessed is also so very dull and very obvious that it simply bores the living crap out of me. When I read this comment from Harry Reid, it tells me that he’s a man of moderate to minor intellect, unable to get beyond the surface of things, a mediocre giant. He should return to Nevada, where he can drink bourbon in the shade of an old shack, skin gritty with alkaline dust. Otherwise, we’ve talked race into dust. I’m sick of it. Time to move on.


19 posted on 01/10/2010 10:07:05 PM PST by redpoll
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Now, you know, you might say, 'Gee, I don't think Barack is black enough................He wasn't supposed to be.'

Louis Farrakan, 2008

Start at 5:25

20 posted on 01/10/2010 10:09:02 PM PST by taraytarah (Our Constitution must be defended and protected from all domestic enemies.)
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