By Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 10th 2010 2:15PM
Filed under: News, Politics, President Obama, Race and Civil RightsComments (5)
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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?
Carlos Anthony Thomas is the issue that he used the term negro or that he stated what we already know but only talk about in our community? personally, i’m only saddened by his used of the term “negro”...demonstrates how archaic his perspective is... Yesterday at 4:22pm ·
Jeff Owens “NEGRO???” ....I’m speechless. (well, not really... but nothing I’d say here. I’ll pause before reacting.) Yesterday at 4:42pm ·
Victoria Boateng I don’t know what in the hell, Mr. Reid was thinking about using the word “NEGRO”. That is simply racist. I mean you had the audacity to call him out because of his intellectual and how well he speaks. Yes he might be light-skined, but he is still black and a great candidate. That is to show how people envy each other. It is ashamed. Yesterday at 5:38pm ·
Yvonne Sullivan Wow! I agree with Carlos though. We all know that Reid stated the truth. We know that talking “White” or being light skinned makes us more palatable to others - including ourselves. Do I agree with that reality? It does not matter. But I prefer to use proper English when I speak and write. The truth is: Your opportunities are limited when you do...See More Yesterday at 5:46pm ·
Victoria Boateng @Yvonne, Why would rather have a white man call you a NEGRO, do you think that something is wrong with that. Plus I agree that your brother or sister shouldn’t call you a nigger as well as white people calling you NEGRO. Yesterday at 5:50pm ·
Victoria Boateng Plus, I am a young person and I don’t text or IMG- messaging, but sometimes when you are texting to someone, you don’t want to take long and write the whole letter out, but the problem is young people get addicted to texting that they forget how to write the correct way or use accurate grammer. Yesterday at 5:51pm ·
Hopefully some democrat politician will say something honest about what they really think about hispanics and then hispanics will see that they are being used for votes.But it will never happen :(
Harry Reid is a Jive Turkey...
He is a democrap. Read between the lines. They like people right where they belong.
Time for that old hick to resign.
(’hick’ was used for sarcasm, the rest of the sentence I meant).
I think the whole flap is hysterical! It is and has been the democrats with a history of racist attitudes and the majority of obama voters are too illiterate to ever realize it. They will bend over for any clinton or reid that asks them to—and frankly—they deserve what they are going to get.
Reid’s Assistant: “Sir, the black folk are getting upset about your comments.”
Reid: “Quick, issue more government cheese.”
Of course Reid is a racist. The elitist demwit party is predicated on racism and keeping blacks on the plantation. The blacks just have been slow to realize it.
Isn’t negro a reference to skin color?