HE SAID WHAT?! HARRY AND THE 'NEGRO'
Posted on 01/09/2010 10:30:22 AM PST by LdSentinal
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect" in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.
"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words," said Reid in a statement. "I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments."
The Senate Majority Leader was officially neutral in the primary fight between Obama and then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). Reid's remarks about Obama were revealed in "Game Change", a book detailing the 2008 race penned by Time's Mark Halperin and New York magazine's John Heilemann.
Reid's apology comes on the same day that a new poll conducted by the Las Vegas Review Journal showed him facing an uphill fight for re-election in 2010. Reid trailed former state Republican party chairwoman Sue Lowden by a 50 percent to 40 percent margin and was behind businessman Danny Tarkanian (R) 49 percent to 41 percent.
Only one in three voters viewed Reid favorably while 52 percent saw him in an unfavorable light in the poll.
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GNIP...
Pinging Al, Jesse and the New Black Panther Party.
This happened in 2008, why are we just now hearing about this or have I missed something?
Obama, in his own book, said he often talks/acts white as to not scare away white folk.
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Obama did not grow up around ANYONE with an American-african-american, ie local city, accent. When he tries to sound “black” is when he is putting on a fake accent.
Ya’ mean......
“I be aopolgizing for dissing my homeboy?”
Well said!
Magic Negro ping
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Teddys_anger.html
Another quote for the same new book “Game Change” - as blogged by Ben Smith:
I’ve finally gotten my hands on a copy of Game Change, in which Heliemann and Halperin report:
[A]s Hillary bungled Caroline, Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.
And, that Chris Matthews gets a tingle up his leg when he sees him and hears him speak ????
Nice going, Reid. What’s next? Remarks about chrome spinner wheels, a diamond encrusted necklace, or being able to talk without yelling, cussing, slurring, or spitting? That wouldn’t get any play from the media, either.
Kind of what I was thinking.
Obama’s half white, he is light skinned. He does not talk with a hood accent or in slang. You may not be able to say the latter descriptor is particular only to blacks, but I know what he meant.
If I were that reporter, however, I’d ask “what exactly were the poor words chosen, and why do you now see them as being offensive?” And then watch him twist in the wind explaining it.
Slow Joe Biden forgot “and he’s not always talking about bitches, hoes, and sluts.”
That is, of course, what this whole kabuki dance is about: political correctness.
And this is an obvious demonstration of how it can destroy relationships, honesty and -- most especially -- truth and freedom.
P.C. is an exceedingly vile formulation.
Well, not in public, anyway. Who knows how he talks around the kitchen table with his family?
media will you now wake up and understand that the left use you, will you push for more honesty and will you ask and push for the lies to be more exposed?
This is ridiculous. He essentially said “he’s not a real n%$%#r”. It’s what these people actually think of block people. Democrats are by FAR the most racist people out there. They look at black people as inferior people who they (the Liberals) have to take care and ensure they get a fair shake.
One day blacks are going to wake up and see what’s actually said about them behind closed doors by white Ds and they’re going to revolt. You’ve been duped for 40 years and they’re designing a new system to keep you enslaved for another 40 years. They throw you scraps, then tell you to keep your supply of scraps you have to vote for us.
I’ve been in some of these meetings and heard some of the most heinous language I’ve ever heard about black people espoused by what are supposedly the most “liberal” democrats in the room. It’s soooo sad what they’ve done to them to get power.
have you ever talked to many blacks?
They have no clue what so ever that the Dems did slavery , they MLK was a republican and that the Dems use them.
All one black has to do is ask themselves this”In 40 years of being with the Dems and their agenda why are we not getting far and why is our programmes like affirmative action i place?”
Affirmative action is an insult, it states that blacks are too thick to compete on a level playing field so we’;ll give you jobs, etc based on what you look like”
Try and tell blacks about all of this and they just don’t want to know
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