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Black Facebookers Are Buzzing About Harry Reid's "Negro Dialect" Remarks
BV Black Spin ^
| Jan 10th 2010
| Boyce Watkins, PhD
Posted on 01/10/2010 10:05:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
I love my family on Facebook. My page is not one of those phony facebook pages, where you don't hear back from the public figure who owns the page - I get down and dirty with my "peeps" from time to time. But although I don't always have the time to speak as much as I want, I love hearing the opinions of others. It's not my opinion that matters most - it's actually your own.
So, I thought I would share some of what others are saying about the situation with Harry Reid's comments about Barack Obama speaking "negro dialect". Is Harry Reid racist?
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: blacks; facebook; highyellow; negrodialect; reid
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To: cherry
Sharpton was on FNF trying very hard to make that argument. He was twisted into knots trying to say that “is was an insensitive” remark but not racist. Thought is was a zen moment. OTOH Clinton's coffee remark was racist according to the “Reverend”.
To: Lazamataz
Reid: Quick, issue more government cheese. You may think that's a joke - but Reid's actual strategy is just that. It's being reported as pointing out Repub senators' voting records on minimum wage, education funding, community policing and AIDS - as if black people are defined by their challenges.
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01/11/2010 5:15:51 AM PST
by
don-o
(My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
To: nickcarraway
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01/11/2010 5:18:05 AM PST
by
paulycy
(AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
To: don-o
Reid's actual strategy is just that.Good point. This can be turned around on the dems, too.
"Democrats define African-Americans by their weaknesses. Republicans define them by their strengths." (Or something similar.)
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01/11/2010 5:20:18 AM PST
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paulycy
(AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
To: nickcarraway
The word negro is still used in some instances. One still hears of negro spirituals, and one still hears about the Negro Leagues in baseball. I do not think Reid was out of line referring to a negro dialect. Even if he'd referred to it as some other kind of dialect, he would still be dissin' the way some bruthas talks.
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01/11/2010 7:21:55 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: Lazamataz
Quick, issue more government cheese. Or, as 0bama stated it, "social justice".
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01/11/2010 7:25:22 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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