Reid Repents for ‘Negro’ Remarks

The Republicans continue to bury themselves alives. Good work Reid.

This is what happens when you focus on “efforts to integrate the Las Vegas strip and the gaming industry to opposing radical judges and promoting diversity in the Senate, I have worked hard to advance issues important to the African American community.” rather than just simply treating ALL people as “people”. Liberalism = racism = democrate

Reid should be ousted! You are correct in saying that if this was a republican, democrats would be calling for his/her resignation.

rofl, claudia must be under the impression that reid is a republican! people should read the articles before commenting (laughing my head off at the whole matter) democrats is soooooooo smawt!

Senator Reid:
As an African American male, I have seen your efforts to help make this nation a better place with your work in Congress. Thank you.
You are alright with me.

What an idiot.

It doesn’t matter that he’s Democrat or Republican. This is probably a common thread among many Caucasians who often don’t mean any harm. It’s just ignorance. Many just don’t understand the culture of African-Americans who are so often portrayed negatively that when they do encounter one they deem intelligent and good looking they are surprised.
The comment shows that Mr. Reid was just ignorant, at least at the time the book was written. No harm done, it just proves we still have a long way to go.

Another Democrat gets a pass for being a racist.
If a Republican said any such thing, they would have have been tarred, feathered and run out of town by now.

Cam – that’s such a nice sentiment. Is that one reserved for idiotic democrats or do you provid equal appologies for idiot republicans making similar gaffs?

Reid can say whatever racist thing he wants. As long as he and his Democrat cronies keep serving up government cheese to lazy constituents, they’ll stay in line. Folks, your Democratic Party!

This is all such nonsense. Neither black nor white totally understand each other’s culture and you really have to be lacking to allow such personal comments to be turned into racist remarks.

Not surprising……. the only real surprise is that ABC even mentioned it….. I’m sure it won’t stay up long anyways…Democrats are allowed to use racist statements………. Can’t wait to see if the other major Government networks point it out….. HEY MSNBC…. are YOU going to ?

REID IS DEM, and it was REb. who forght FOR CIVIL RIGHTS and DEMS FOUGHT AGAISNT! WAKE UP PEOPLE… YOU ARE BEING USED FOR VOTES!(The more DEMs. can keep you on welfare the more THEY THINK you will vote for them)

“Reid was convinced that Obama’s race would help him more than hurt him”. Of course it helped him. It is 80% of why he got elected (with a lot of help from the media) and the other 20% was his speaking skills. Is there any other reason that so many people would vote for the least experienced of all running by either party? (By the way, Reid is an idiot and Claudia at 2:27: He is a DEMOCRAT so I really don’t understand your comment about Repub. buring themselves. Funny!)

Neither do I agree with you but who cares! I’m off this topic!

reda—The parties have changed over the past 100 years. That is why you are a Republican now, because that party represents your views which are in clear opposition to the interests and concerns of the African-American populace. Everyone likes to make fun of Robert Byrd as a racist when he has changed his ways and votes. Tune in to your right-wing media (Rush, Glenn, Pat—you know the drill) and it will become apparent that the republican Party is hostile to African-Americans’ interests. Having a black mascot isn’t fooling anyone especially not African-Americans. Most Republicans don’t believe this cynical move. Listen to Limbaugh—he will tell you how republicans feel about African-Americans.

So sad that we pretend to have “free speech” in this country. Who cares what one idiot said? Sticks and stones. If you were offended by his comment, get the chip off of your shoulder, get over it and use your time getting out there and doing something productive.

Help me to understand.My family & I are from the South. I take a lot of heat for my accent,I am immediately expected to be a” dumb cracker”.Putting other offensive issues aside…If you changed the word [ugh] Negro to Black would the accent content be ok? My mom tells me that former president Carter was criticized for his accent & called demeaning names.Watch Judge Joe Brown. He is an attractive man that plays with a variety of accents in his Court room show, but he can go ” street ” with the best.In ANTM Trya urged her fledgling model to lose the accent.Is it a race thing? A cultural thing ?Your thoughts?

Well President Obama really is half real African and half white American. I suppose calling him a Negro is a bit antiquated and a bit inaccurate. Liberal stooge is more accurate.

So, David G. @2:42:24, do you think blacks would be better off with republicans? This is not a party issue, this is a race issue. Reid’s statement further confirm for me the reason we still need Affirmative Action. What some whites do not realize, because it’s not their reality, is that there are plenty of whites who are in the position to hire that have the very same belief.

Ashley….that is one of the most factual blogs I think I have ever read, you couldn’t be more clear than that. Harry Reid at one point referred to the dragging of feet to pass the health care bill of that of the troubled civil rights bill in 1964, too bad people (other that your self) are too stupid to realize it was the democrats, lead by the Democrat Robert (KKK) Bird to stop it civil rights bill in 1964….GOOD FOR YOU

God I LOVE Democrats!

what’s the problem here? he didn’t say anything that was not true.
Just turn on your t.v. everyday and you will realize it for yourself.
why is he apologising? that must have been one boring book.

No need to Reply

Paul Wall…YOUR FLAT OUT WRONG….Go look up the bill the civil rights bill of 1964, it was drafted by republican, met major opposition by the democrat party, and that opposition was lead by the OLDEST Senator ever to serve in the senate and is still there, The democrat, Robert (KKK) Bird, once an actual grand Poobah of the KKK. And you welfare heads keep voting him in. Is that Ironic?

“And why African-Americans don’t vote for Republicans.”
Guess again.

realman1963 | Jan 9, 2010 3:37:02 PM–and David Letterman is a senator from which state? Gays and blacks and all disenfranchised people know what party to vote for and it aint yours.

As a African-American man, I have seen over the course of this past year that more advertisement, television and mainstream media have begun to reflect on life of Blacks in this country. We are all not living in the “Ghetto” selling crack and killing one another. Yet, now that in the White House there is a man of ethnicity, it does spotlight the hope and failures of African-Americans.

My question is when will the Media quit over using the term “Liberal” in all it’s variations and start referring to these Left Wing Radicals for what they really are… Bolshevik’s ..

We were lead to believe the big “revelation” from this book was governor Palin calling Joe Biden, O’Biden. Even though she had written about this.

Wow …. I honestly can’t believe the MSM is reporting this.

Don’t forget, the non-racist Democrat “O-Biden”, called Obama “Barack America” and said he was “clean”. And Palin is the idiot?

I agree with what Senator Reid said. I was very pleased with President Obama’s intelligence and speech and I did like that he is bi-racial. I live in the south and he had my vote from the beginning because he was the very best candidate and the most capable of freeing America from the quagmire that Bush and his republican rubber stampers put the country in.

I agree Vicki. And he sure can read that teleprompter. And like Biden said, he’s “clean”.

People csn’t even speak anymore. Every word we use is disected. Men and women , black white pink purple what ever the color of ones skin, can’t even speak to the other anymore. A great free counrty we have come to be.Get over it people no body is perfect regaurdless of skin color or sex.

Lester | Jan 9, 2010 4:23:20 PM—Everyone knows who the true racists are in this country. Everyone. So no need to do some fictional makeover where the Republicans come out as those who advance the causes and concerns of African-American people in this country. The party who wants to reverse affirmative action? The party that called a Supreme Court that overturned Brown v. Board an institution of “liberal, activists judges.” Honestly, man, who do you think you are fooling. Limbaugh supports African-American causes? You’re using some of that really good stuff!

ABC news your blog site has become a forum for what America has been hiding for ages. Anyone reading these posts will not be amazed to find out that the dark Ages,Neanderthals, and Babarians were far more civilized than present day America. Technology has been traded for mind development, respect and tolorance. ABC NEWS, THESE COMMENTS ARE IDIOTIC- typical of the majority of the 300 million people in this country. America 20-25 ago was by far a more civil society than what we are witnessing now. All this started when the right wing could not accept the Clinton Presidency, that was the first that I saw a US President being openly insulted with no end in sight.

Reid’s comments are disgusting. Had this comment been made by a Republican Democrats would be demanding he resign.

FairLiberal – What are you trying to prove with facts?
Liberals don’t need no stinkin’ facts!!!
THEY HAVE THE PARTY LINE TO RELY ON!!!

Vicki, here are a few more inconvenient historical facts for you…
In 1957, President Eisenhower (A REPUBLICAN) sent Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation. The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. It also established a federal Civil Rights Commission with authority to investigate discriminatory conditions and recommend corrective measures. The final act was weakened by Congress due to lack of support among the DEMOCRATS.
EDUCATE YOURSELF!

Posted by: Laughin__ALL_The_Way | Jan 9, 2010 4:46:09 PM
ROFL!!!
You have hit the nail on the head. I am sure some of my fellow AAs will want to shoot the messenger rather than admit the message is true…

Oh my God!

Whites are always apologizing to blacks for ‘racist remarks’ Do blacks ever apologize to whites for ‘racist remarks’?

Laughing_All_The_Way—”we will show you in 297 more days!” what? you’re gonna replace Obama with whoever limbaugh anoints? I notice you belittle all democrats but *NEVER* republicans. Why is that Laughing? Being in the right-wing tank doesn’t make you independent. who is going to be your candidate? who would you like to see in office? name someone so we can see how independent you are(nt).

JULIE – You asked “Do blacks ever apologize to whites for ‘racist remarks’?”
No, but they do travel the world apologizing for everything ELSE under the sun. I mean, take Obama for an example…

Mr. Reid was way of out of line. It’s a disgrace for him to race out Mr. Obama. He should have called Mr. Obama a liar instead.

Vicki | Jan 9, 2010 5:10:09 PM—I agree with you. I don’t know anyone who sees Steele’s appointment as anything but a cynical, desperate gasp of an increasingly racist party. This isn’t inclusiveness this is the depths of cynicism and no one is buying it especially not African-Americans.

Vicki, this is your quote…
“It was the Democratic Party that accomplished the Civil Rights Legislation.” I just gave you three separate historical examples of where this is utterly false.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Do you acknowledge that you were wrong? Just trying to be fair.

President Obama knows Senator Reid very well and by now has a very good impression of him. There are way too many remarks that are not meant as an insult although can be taken that way. The President has always been gracious and forgiving for the many insults flying at him from the republican lawmakers who instead of doing their jobs sit around scheming up ways to obstruct and prevent the beneficial programs the President is working on for America. The republican party has done nothing to be proud of since President Obama was elected.

I guess The United Negro College Fund needs to change its name since “Negro” is not politically correct. How about The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? If I DARED use the word “Negro” or talk about “colored people” I would lose my job. Something is wrong here.

Elaine at 3:21 – My point was that blacks need to wake up and admit that these Democrats you have had so much faith in all these years are never going to deliver. This is a Party where victimhood is a cornerstone of their philosophy. They don’t survive as a party if people don’t see themselves as victims needing their benevolent intervention. Stop being a victim and make your own successful future without these government fools.

I am sure they will come up next with a symbol no one can pronounce – just like His Royal Purpleness, Prince .
ROFLMAO!!!

Does anyone else remember these three gems from our current non-racist, “inclusive”, Democrat VP…
1. Obama is “naive”.
2. Obama is “clean”.
3. “You cannot go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts without an Indian accent.”

Vicki; You really have no idea what Obama’s impression of Harry Reid is. How could you?

Remember Imus ? Where is Rev Al and Rev Jackson now?

I dare any Republican to make the same statement and we will see what happens to he/she.

The Majority Leader is a racists.

As soon as the “African-Americans” realize that they are AMERICAN first, then ALL of their “issues” will be resolved by the INDEPENDENTS!
If they instead feel that they are “AFRICAN” first, well, then their issues will NEVER be resolved, at least not until they relocate to wherever in Africa they most closely associate with (it’s a BIG continent).
If they think that the color of the President’s skin is all that is important, then there isn’t a country on the planet that will EVER resolve THEIR “issues.”

Give them any chance, and the racists begin to swarm – as evidenced by the posts here.

Reid made this comment 1 1/2 year ago and he is just now apologizing? Outrageous!

I wonder whatever happened to Rev. Al’s lawsuit against Rush Limbaugh? Rush claimed Al had a major role in the Crown Heights riots. Rev. Al? Lose your lawyer or something?

Everybody knows that American Blacks have their own dialect. Saying Obama doesn’t use it unless he wants to is a true statement. Chill everybody.

tierra, are you refering to the Democrats like Reid or some other group that makes racist comments?

Posted by: FairLiberal | Jan 9, 2010 5:59:27 PM
Give them any chance, and the racists begin to swarm – as evidenced by the posts here.

tierra, do you think that Reid’s statements were “racist”?

Racism is in the mouth of the beholder… I guess.

tierra, do you think that Reid’s statements were “racist”?
Posted by: FairLiberal | Jan 9, 2010 6:06:03 PM
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Not even in the same ballpark as the racist comments being posted here – give them half a chance and the racists begin to expose themselves and swarm.

I guess since reid and his democrats have nothing better to talk about like helping millons of the unemployed in this country.
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Pay attention to the news.

tierra, could you please give a few examples of the blatant racist comments that have been posted here? You know, maybe a few examples where someone said Obama was a good candidate because he was “light-skinned”, “clean”, “had no negro dialect”, or something along those lines.

“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” Reid said in a written statement . . . “I was a proud and enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as I can to advance President Obama’s legislative agenda.
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No ‘FairLiberal’ you wouldn’t be able to find a Republican who said any such thing – and fully supported the President. Any Republican would not being saying this in support, but rather as a put down. Big difference. One is a stupid choice of words.

Where’s is Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson now?

This is one of the worst comments I have heard from a politician. Bill Clinton was raked over the coals for making a comment during the campaign. What is different about Reid?

Can’t really get too worked up about this. Trying to call Reid racist is a bit silly based on his record (and there is a FAR better Democrats to hang that disgraceful sign on), but Reid is both a weak Senate leader (three consecutive years of filibustering records by the Republicans and he’s not calling them on it?!?!?) and only a 50/50 shot to hold his seat in the best case anyhow.
Maybe it’ll be good for a bit of humor value as Republicans, recent converts to Protect Medicare Wasteful Spending At Any Cost now give Political Correctness is King a big ‘ol partisan hug.

What an idiot.

Why reid or anyone in an elected position of power demean a culture by such a racist remark, I know lots of people of that persuasion that have a better comand of the english language than reid does. Rise up and protest this outrage.

.People still losing their home, their jobs, and Obama, Harry and Nancy don’t care
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They don’t care? I guess that’s why they’ve twice extended unemployment benefits, reduced taxes, increased money to support programs, reduced taxes on businesses, put in stimulus money for work programs, shored up state budgets for teachers, police, firefighters, health care workers . . . get real.

tierra – come on now. What choice of words should Reid have used instead of “light-skinned” and “negro dialect”? Would words should he have used to better express his thoughts?

So tierra, you acknowledge that the Democrat solution is to spend, spend, spend our money while taking in less and less in tax revenue. Brilliant.

So tierra, you acknowledge that the Democrat solution is to spend, spend, spend our money while taking in less and less in tax revenue. Brilliant.
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No, actually that was the policy of the Bush administration – who then left a destroyed economy in virtual free-fall collapse, hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost by people every month, banks and major financial insitutions in collapse, foreclosures and bankruptcies through the roof . . .
EVERY western industrialised nation has insituted stimulus programs, deficit funding and tax relief attempting to reduce the impact of a huge economic collapse.
I’m sure you know better . . .

This country will always posess some degree of racisim regardless of whom it is that is being discussed and it is sad that it takes not an election of an African American as President but an event such as 911 for us to remeber how quickly people reverted back to their ordinary selves after a catascropic eventtemporarily brought us together as one nation.It was a lame comment.

Laughin…I hear Americans who frequently refer to themselves as I’m Italian, I’m Jewish, I’m Latino, I’m Canadian and no one seems to have a problem with that (which they shouldn’t). So some refer to themselves as African American and it causes a ignorant tyraid on your part. Whatever issues you are refering to are based on faulty generalizations creating by the likes of mindless individuals such as yourself who assume that all people regardless of individuality, are the same. This demonstrates the level of your shallowness.
I’m am sure that you have surveyed indepth every black person in this country to ascertain their perceptions and beliefs. Certainly African Americans like Colin Powell, Condelezza Rice, and even our president are joining the “rest of us” spending every minute of their waking day calling for a return to Africa as soon as this cruel government pays us our reparations.
By the way Senator Reid has supported and sponsored more legislation to help the poor and hard working middle Americans than any Republican. Bush wouldn’t even approval a mere 25 million to assure that children in this country could get adequate health care.

Aside from the obvious, another thing that really disturbs me when these kinds of rude remarks emerge is that I wonder if African American people might be prone to assume that many white people speak this way.
I am 48 years old, and in my social and professional circles, and within my family, I have known exactly ONE person (white) who would say such a stupid thing. This guy happens to be a beloved family member, but everyone understands that he is an “Archie Bunker” type and says most of what he says for effect (I think, who really knows what on earth he is thinking, he’s a dummy).
But Harry Reid? There is no excuse for such ignorant and hurtful remarks, and I very much resent his words. They do harm to racial relations, and I hold him accountable as one who supposed to have been working to support Obama’s vision and has hereby failed to live up to what is required of him.

So tierra, you acknowledge that the Democrat solution is to spend, spend, spend our money while taking in less and less in tax revenue. Brilliant.
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No, actually that was the policy of the Bush administration – who then left a destroyed economy in virtual free-fall collapse, hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost by people every month, banks and major financial insitutions in collapse, foreclosures and bankruptcies through the roof . . .
EVERY western industrialised nation has insituted stimulus programs, deficit funding and tax relief attempting to reduce the impact of a huge economic collapse.
I’m sure you know better . . .

Otto, if your statement “Bush wouldn’t even approval a mere 25 million to assure that children in this country could get adequate health care” were true, why will it now take a thousand BILLION dollars (that’s 1 trillion $$$) for this health care disaster?

tierra, you apparently have trouble remembering your statements, so I’ll repeat for you…
First you say this in defense of Obama…
“They don’t care? I guess that’s why they’ve twice extended unemployment benefits, reduced taxes, increased money to support programs, reduced taxes on businesses, put in stimulus money for work programs, shored up state budgets for teachers, police, firefighters, health care workers”
This is SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, and SPEND SOME MORE!!!!
Then you say this…
“No, actually that was the policy of the Bush administration.”
Make up your mind.

Why muddy the waters here:
A person who defends that Reid just used a “poor choice of words”, and then claims others are racist, obviously has a way of thinking which is only idealogical. There is no need to see where they stand on government spending. One can already deduce this. Musty have bigger government, must defend racist statements. It’s all the same to them. Idealogical and not fact oriented.

“Obama took care of this within 2 weeks of taking office.”
See what I mean. But no, let’s get back to defending Reid’s statements, as a simple “poor chioce of words”. What a crock!

Don’t confuse me with facts. I know what I know because I don’t look at facts. I dream things and I say them.

let’s get back to defending Reid’s statements, as a simple “poor chioce of words”.
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You don’t think ‘Negro’ is a poor choice of words, I do.

Sorry to say, he’s right. If Obama had been darker, with a stronger urban African American speech pattern (dare I use the word “ebonics?) he would not have risen so far so fast, no matter his intelligence, drive or education. In order to succeed in this country, to this day, female or male, white or black, the closer you appear to be to a Caucasian male (women with shorter hair and pantsuits, Hillary?) the greater your chance of success. The only people who argue this fact are Caucasian males, who have never had to deal with not looking the part.

The words were not only careless they reflect poorly on Reid and that’s why he’s trying to get out in front of them before the book comes out. He knows it’s bad.

If McCain or any Republican said the exact same thing Democrats would be demanding a resignation. But since it’s a Democrat it’s OK

Don’t you think its’ pathetic and ironic the right wing racists are harassing Reid?

Do any of you Know Racism when you see and hear it? If you are not that “brown-skinned, light-skinned” person living in a racist society such as America, no you wouldn’t! Reid is a product of this country, and what do you expect from him to “think and say”. He was cultured that way! And no RACISM isn’t made up by black people. It’s real, you know it and we know it.
The sad thing is when it is “pretended” that it doesn’t exist.

The fact is that during the Bush administration there was an existing federal provision that made funds available for the healthcare of children. It certain was full coverage but it did provide for some free health care for about 7 million children. Bush vetoed twice allocations for additional money to cover an extra 4 million children. That is a FACT. Research IT! The legislation was finally passed in January of 09 under the Obama administration. The actual cost was 25 billion with an additional 32 billion to cover the extra 4 million children.
We complain so much about the cost of this health care and are up in arms against it yet Bank of America received 25 billion and there was little uproar. So many other banks and financial institutions got money as well as are now sticking hard working Americans with higher interest rates and where are the alarms, the protests.
How much are we sending to the Iraq and Afghanistan governments? I don’t mean our troops who need every bit of our support but how much do these foreign countries get.

this white guy thinks reids remarks were,in the least, ‘careless’. if this guy, your majority leader, is the best you can put up there, we are all in alot of trouble.

Amazing that anyone would defend Harry Reid’s racist comments.

Stop bothering me with facts! I know what I know – I dreamed it one night.

Wrong again ‘FairLiberal’, Thurmond ran as the presidential nominee of the breakaway Dixiecrat Party in 1948.
You’re going to have to do some real research to have any credibility whatsoever.

secondlook | Jan 9, 2010 7:41:41 PM
…..If we all could only live he words of MLK……

Harry Reid finally showed his true colors he cannot try to pooh pooh the language he used. Like many Democrats he really is just a two faced racist.

By “….no Negro dialect”, did he mean he doesn’t talk like a rapper? What in the world is a Negro dialect? This is extremely offensive…..and what’s wrong with being dark-skinned? Does Mr. Reid have a problem with that too? These politicians are ridiculous!!!

Note that Reid is only apologizing for his “poor choice of words,” not for the sentiment they expressed.
Obama is “light skinned” so I don’t see why that statement of fact is so offensive.
Others have commented on Obama’s dropping g’s and picking up the cadence of an evangelist preacher when talking to certain audiences but both disappear at other times. So Reid’s “Negro dialect” may be a poor choice of words but the sentiment is accurate.

Its quite obvious that Harry Reid is not used to being around blacks. Nothing wrong with that.

And what would be the fate of a Republican writing in such fashion about the Anointed One? Hmmmm

Please tell me that Reid resorted to the old Liberal standby: “What I meant to say was…” Classic!

These racist comments are always defended by the lamestream media when it’s one of their own; A Conservative makes the same mistake and his career is over.

Imagine if Sarah Palin had said this! She’d be villified.

i don’t know about you, but i really miss Bernie Mac. seriously.

Sounds like Harry Reid is saying that Obama might get elected because his skin is light and he doesn’t talk N dialect. Not because he is qualified in any way.

As I sit on the “independent sidelines,” observing the political mess in our country, it is my humble opinion Majority Leader Reid needs to go away!
It appears there is endless evidence of malfeasance, malaprops, and malfunction that should disqualify this public servant from service.
Majority Leader Reid – do an honorable thing, for once in your life, and move on. The country will be better for it.

White skin, dark skin- you are all ignorant. Unto every man is appointed a time to live and a time to die. If anybody has cheated the Angel of death as a result their skin color- he is surely superior, but nobody has yet as of the time of my writing this. You only have one life to live, do something noble with your time. Swallow your pride beause God has decleared that you are all made out of dust of the Earth. YOU ARE ON BORROWEED TIME ON THIS PLANET. Right Wing or left Wing spend time to make humanity better, and your little finite splash in God’s space PLEASURABLY memorable.

I never thought I’d agree with anything Rev. Al says but he’s right on the money as far as I’m concerned. It just shows you that people who believe in equal rights and who work to eliminate racism in society do not have to eliminate their own unconsciously racist attitudes in order to be effective. Lincoln harbored many racist attitudes but did not let that affect his actions. And I wonder why those people complaining that this Democrat is being given some kind of a pass don’t think he’s being taken to task for his remarks–isn’t that the whole point of this article?

Well Mr. O’Babble, are you going to suggest that the Democrat Party kick Reid out of the Senate as you suggested the Republicans do to Trent Lott who said something maybe 1/10 as offensive as Harry Reid ?

JHW!! I enjoy reading your posts, it’s obvious you’re a thinker..but look at what you said about PALIN! Your point is that if she had done more unscripted interviews, at some point she would have slipped up and said something racist..Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of hers, but that is just a false assumption. I can start yapping right now and not stop for thirty days, and i won’t suddenly let some racist comment fly..because I’m not a racist. Please read what Reid said again..can YOU imagine that slipping out of your mouth acccidentally? probably not.

Joan, does Obama have a choice? If his first call was to Reid to offer absolution, I’m sure his second call was to his “mentor” Rev. Wright offering him a two week trip to “somewhere-istan” lest he call one of the cable shows to share his thoughts on the matter.

The only people who should be voting Democrat are those who wish to see this country destroyed. This loathsome party is overflowing with Socialists, Communists, liars, and scoundrels of every stripe. Any relationship of today’s Democrat Party to the party of Harry Truman and JFK is strictly accidental.

Hopefully Nevada has had enough of Harry Reid. The rest of the country sure has.

I have to say I like the direction our country is headed. People make mistakes, and some people are just plain bad and dishonest, remember the last president and all his cabinet?

reid may have said something stupid, but it’s true that president obama is half-white, has european features, and does not talk with any accent, making him seem more “mainstream”, if you will.
don’t forget, we couldn’t get a white woman vice president, much less a white woman presidential nominee, so white men (or the next nearest) still rule the day.

Several years ago American Indians complained that they are not the ones finding it offensive to name sports teams after them; it is the white people telling them what they should be offended by. This group (can’t remember who they are now) stated that they are tired of white people telling them what they should or should not be offended by.

I’m not surprised at all at Reid’s comments. He and his ilk claim to champion the downtrodden and protect them from the evil small government Conservatives regardless of who it is… blacks, illegals, gays, etc but any intellectually honest person can see that they keep these very people ‘in their place’ decade after decade as a hostage constituency and everyone just accepts it… ridiculous.
However, a moral and intellectual challenge to this destructive, controlling, version of liberalism is finally welling up in the West after decades of suffocating mass media orthodoxy.

Unfortunate choice of words on Reid’s part. He called Obama and apologized, he apologized in a public statement. It sounds to me like he stumbled over expressing his thoughts in an appropriate way.
That being said, every one of us (Left, Right, Middle) should always be examining our prejudices, and be willing to admit to them, and let go of them Easier said than done.

The real power lies with Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Reid, etc.
Obama was the Democrat nominee because he could pull the black vote and get the Dems in power. But you can be sure that these congressional power brokers keep Obama on a short leash. Which explains why Obama did not send his own version of a health care bill to Congress, and why Obama cannot enforce a C-SPAN taping of the health care negotiations.
Obama is simply their front man, and must do what he is told. Democrats are great at using minorities to further their purposes. But now the comments by Reid, Bill Clinton, etc. are shedding light on how minorities have been used as pawns. They must be kept poor and dependent on government so that Democrat politicians can control them.

President Obama’s liberal left supporters will readily forgive Senator Reid, as he’s one of them despite his prior claims of being “independent”. But had any one on the other side of the aisle made these remarks the indignant kangaroo committees would have been out ready to demand his or her immediate resignation.

Reid is a bit absent minded these days:
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2002 agreed with former Sen. Trent Lott’s (R-Miss.) decision to resign his leadership role after Lott made what some felt were racist remarks at former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party.
“He had no alternative,” said Reid at the time claiming, “If you tell ethnic jokes in the backroom, it’s that much easier to say ethnic things publicly. I’ve always practiced how I play.”
Perhaps Reid should consider resigning his leadership role as well.

The_Mick – You said “…there’s certainly no one more racist than Sharpton.”
Well, actually, I can think of at least one…
How about Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the supposed Leader of the Nation of Islam?
WAIT!!!! I see a trend…
Rev. Jessie Jackson
Rev. Al Sharpton
Rev. Louis Farrakhan
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Funny how ALL of these racists are also REVERENDS, isn’t it…???? WHat’s up with that???

I don’t think that Senator Harry Reid is a racist. Although Reid seemed to think that President Obama could win the election because he is “light-skinned” and speaks with very little “Negro dialect,” he wasn’t necessarily giving his own opinion. Rather, he was giving his assessment of the preferences of the American public.

I’ve re-read what was said, and I still can’t see anything that wasn’t or isn’t true about Reids statement. Different groups of people commonly have their own “dialect”…nothing wrong with that, is there?

Why does somebody have to apologize for the truth? Reid should have pointed out the fact that Barack Obama is quite the liar because all of his vague campaign lies/promises and that’s what got him elected. Almost a year in office and he’s done nothing for our under-performing economy but give billions of dollars to the very people who put the United States in hot water! At least FDR had the good common sense to put the American worker back to work by fixing up the nation’s infrastructure and thus infusing the economy with federal dollars to help get our country’s economic heartbeat back to normal.

Amen “laughin ALL the way”

Amazing to read some posts saying “Reid was only saying what Americans were thinking.” REALLY? Hate to tell you this, my representatives stopped representing me years ago, and they certainly don’t speak for me either.

Where is Rev Sharpton and Rev Jessie Jackson?

All of these self-serving politicians should resign now before the American people finally get fed up with their shenanigans and throw the whole lot out during these upcoming elections. I just hope there’s still a country left to salvage after we get rid of them all.

ANYONE IN THE MEDIA SEE THE DOUBLE STANDARD. NO I DID’T THINK SO ANYTHING SAID BY DEMS IS AOK

cindy: I agree with you. I have’nt heard the word Negro in many years. Of course, I’m not in politics either. I remember George Bush senior mentioning one day shortly after leaving the White House, “I did’nt know they scanned groceries at a supermarket”. That was 1993. That technology was industry wide in 1974. 19 years! How can someone represent you when they have no idea what is going on.

We would be much better off with citizen legislators. Career politicians can’t get the job done. They are so far removed from America, for so long, they have lost touch. The longer they are there, the worse it gets.

It’ll all blow over. Just like Harry Reid’s reelection chances.

Actually Reid is correct about Obama’s ability to switch dialects. In a seldom seen video from Obama’s campaign, his teleprompter failed and he immediately switched to a ebonic ghetto vernacular. It’s was quite amazing.

Where is Rev Sharpton and Rev Jessie Jackson now?

What if a Republican had made these comments? People would be demanding a resignation. Why the double standard?

[snip] Certainly African Americans like Colin Powell, Condelezza Rice, and even our president are joining the “rest of us” spending every minute of their waking day calling for a return to Africa as soon as this cruel government pays us our reparations. [snip]
Posted by: Otto | Jan 9, 2010 6:44:26 PM
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I’ve always thought of myself as simply an American — period, no hyphens added. I was born here and raised here. Like my ancestors, I fought in the U.S. Army for the honor, if not a victory, when my nation was involved in a “hot” war in Vietnam.
I go along with what Redd Foxx said: “If you’re talking about sending me back to my home, you’d better be talking about Saint Louis!”

Reid should resign.
Period.
Any Republican would’ve been pushed out.
The double standard by the media and by the Democrats is inexcusable.

Amazing the The Senate Majority Leader would make a racist remark and Democrats would defend him. Why?

Reid made the comment one and a half years ago, and he is just now apologizing?
Why? Because it was going to come out in a book? What a hypocrite.

Anyone who makes excuses for Reid is also a racist. What he said was wrong. I don’t care what political party you belong too.

Its true, in hospitals the race on the “birth certificate” is always that of the mother. So in retrospect Obama is classified as white…not convinced? Look it up yourself.

Remember Trent Lott?

ABC George Steppingstone, says Obama has forgiven Reid, so we all should just forget about it and move on! Had Reid been a Republican ABC and all other liberal news networks would have wanted his head! ABC says it’s not biased!! What a crock!! Look at all the examples of people in the Democratic Party using the “N” word. You have Reid, Byrd, Jessie Jackson, yet ABC just tells us to forgive and forget!! I be getting my news from Fox from now on!

I like reading your comments, but aren’t there more important things to wrangle over?

I like reading your comments, but aren’t there more important things to wrangle over?
Posted by: wnashid
Of course there is WHEN it’s something you’d rather not discuss!!

The usual reaction of the White House will be that “nobody will be fired” and that Obama and Uncle Reid would end up having a “beer meeting” to settle the issue. Remember, according to our President the cops reacting to the phone call are all “racists” but if you say it loud, as Reid did, you are not. Perhaps, I am missing something…

Reid apologizes for having said the words but he should be apologizing for even thinking of using those words. How sad!

Obama said: “The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.”
–From the December 12, 2002 issue of the Chicago Defender.

One does not have to be dark skinned or grow up in the inner city to be a “real” African America. One does not have to have special skin or experiences to help African Americans in America. Obama help ALL Americans as best he can with wheta George Bush left him. He’s got A LOT to FIX before he can help ANYONE. And, last I heard, it’s Obama’s place to forgive whomever he wants to–and not to be judged on his forgiveness by a bunch of righteous news readers…Sheesh!

The President says that the issue is closed but WE THE PEOPLE say we want Reid’s head! He either quits his Majority-Leader position and his job in the Senate, or he’s voted down in the next election! In his position there’s no room for error! I call upon the people of Nevada to ask for his resignation!

He probably didn’t mean it like it sounded but I think deep down there is a lot of those feeling going around. People try to hide them…but look at some comments and you know they are there. Too bad….I thought we had gotten beyond all that.

Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”
Obama said he appeared once on Imus’ show two years ago, and “I have no intention of returning.”

This is being completely blown out of proportion by people who want to use this against Harry Reid and the Democrats. Black people are under no illusion as to why white people feel President Obama was more acceptable than any past Black Presidential candidate. I’m sure a lot of people don’t even realize that we have had African American Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates as far back as 1904: George Edwin Taylor, National Liberty Party and 1872: Frederick Douglass Vice President, Equal Rights Party. (try googling African-American Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. it might surprise you)
It is really sad to see some people jump all over this and only as a way to hurt Harry Reid and to do damage to the Democratic Party. Guess what people, Black people aren’t that stupid. Racism is alive and well in this country and it is in both parties. Blacks didn’t run to the Republican party after they decided to elevate Michael Steele to be their Obama and they are not going to flock to Republicans now.

You can always see the direction your country is going when the majority has to apologize to the minority for exercising their 1st amendment rights. Left to the minority the majority will have no constitutional rights.

If it was a Republican that said it, every Dem in the country would be calling for his head. Where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton now? Hey guys, someone used the word negro. I’ll bet the two of them will be out next week protesting the use of the word negro on the census forms. The Republicans are sure going to have their work cut out for them cleaning up the mess left by Pres. Carter, oops, I mean Obama, the other 1 term president.

Republicans seem to think if they whine about this loud enough it will take the heat off how bad they are in this area over there.

Just one more example of liberal hypocrisy. We’re just glad the media is no longer smothering these stories.

Reid should resign. The pressure should continue to mount. His words if uttered by a Republican would result in a full court press on most every media outlet. ABC News themselves would be running lead stories about how racist a comment like that would be. It matters not weather you think Reid does well on behalf of the minorities. It’s the same thing as accepting 2 black guys calling each other the N word and claiming it’s okay for them because they are black. It’s not okay for anyone.

It’s never a two way street. Is it? I’ve learned you cannot compare comments when it comes from two different parties. What about Bill Clinton’s comments when he was trying to acquire Teddy’s support for Hillary when he commented that Obama would be the one serving them coffee just 3 years ago. This too racists to publish?

First, I need to preface by saying that my following comment is NOT pro dem or pro rep, nor is it pro con or pro lib. It is NOT about being black or white. It is just about common sense and the people we elect and depend on to run our country. It is about you and I and the how low our society has sank and how broken our system is. How can a man who is supposed to be an intelligent, well educated, emotionally steady leader, possibly let such an utterly stupid comment slip from his mouth?! This, however, is not Senator Dean’s fault. It is our fault as we elect these people based on anything else but how competent they might be able to run a complex, important entity such as our country. We might as well replace our current political process with a new reality show! How about calling it America’s Next Senator and have people compete based on how well they can talk, dance, sing, or how sexually attractive they are? Let 14 year old kids do the voting and we would probably end up with more qualified officials than we have now! ABC you should plan on launching this soon before FOX beats you to it.

Both MO and BO have “changed” in tone and dialect when speaking strictly to AA groups–unlike Sara Palin who speaks in her native accent (alaskan) no matter who she is adderssing .(Elitist Biden or Alaskans or middle America.) Tell me who the hypocrites are here?! Anyone remember BO chastising “young black males” for not providing for their offspring? Where are Sharpton and Jackson? They sure came front and center after Bill Clinton’s innocuous remark about Jackson winning in Carolina in his Pres run……

Feinstein said the matter is closed. When she or Pelosi speak, we must listen. Lets hope Reid doesn’t intend to buy an NFL franchise anytime soon.

so Reid will not support a “Negro” who is dark–skinned” and comes from Arkansas?

LOL! For the next week or so, we’ll get to watch the contorting and twisting to make it seem like what Reid said is really no big deal. It will look like an advanced Yoga studio.
Everyone knows that had a Republican said the same thing, they would be forced to resign in disgrace amongst cries of racist! Racist!
Sharpton & Jackson would hold press conferences every day, as would the Congressional Black Caucus (is there a White Caucus?).
Can you say Double Standard?

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are puppets, they will do what is good for them not anyone else not even the people of the same race, they grandstand and have fallen into the trap of being dishonored by their personal life like an illegitamate child, and a bad political line of power in New York

Gwilsing,Mr. Lott had some faults,but racism was not one of them.Please give us examples that would substantiate your claim.

Mandatory sentencing was a GOP bill that was racist to the core of its existence. Power cocaine creates rock cocaine. It affect the black community to the detriment of our race over the pass two decades. All drugs in America is bad, but when you knowingly create laws that is designed in theory to affect only one race of people like mandatory sentencing did that is a racist action to the core of your existence

“All drugs in America is bad”.”Create laws that is designed in theory…”You would think that in 3 trys you could get it right at least once.Ahh,the intellectual vigor of the Democrat base.

Posted by: Jen | Jan 10, 2010 7:34:30 PM
Talking about race is not racism. Using the old ‘negro’ word is out of step with the times and pretty stupid. Does it mean Reid is a racist? Perhaps. Probably not – Reid was born in 1939 and was an adult when segregation and racism were still common in the United States. I think he fought on the side of Civil Rights all his life. Probably more a sloppy mistake more than anything else.
You can pretend you see his soul if you want (perhaps you’re clairvoyant); Bush saw Putin’s soul and liked it.

As long as we keep yammering about comments like this the longer we keep racism a major issue in this country.
Reid should get a pass on these comments and we can all move on.
At the same time why don’t we stop saying things like “the Tea Party” attendees are essentially there because they are all racists – I have never been able to connect the dots on this one anyway.
Let’s take this kind of nonsense out of play. It keeps the ball in the air.

Most politicians put their foot in their mouths, at least some of the time.
No difference with this one.

During the last campaign if anyone one this blog had said those remarks, you would have been hung up to dry. That’s all you heard from Obama supporters, racist this, racist that, until you wanted to scream.
Now when one of their own say this, it’s not so bad. You democrats are a bunch of hypocrits and no better than the other side. I hope some day you all choke on your own higher than thou standards.

In a perfect world, Obama would be consistent and nail Reid with the same hammer he used on Trent Lott in 2002. Maybe something like this…….
“It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate.”
“The Democratic Party itself has to drive out Harry Reid. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.” (Hot Air)