WASHINGTON – The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama's race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Obama is the nation's first African-American president.
"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments," Reid said in a statement released after the excerpts were first reported on the Web site of The Atlantic.
I don't see what the big deal is here. What he said is both true and unoffensive. Obama is a light-skinned black man and slips in and out of a more black (which is what Negro means, y'all) speech cadence easily depending on which group he's pandering to - er... - speaking to.
"But no one calls people Negros anymore! That's an archaic, outdated and offensive way of referring to blacks!"
Really? As long as there's still an organization called The United Negro College Fund (even if they have acronymized it), there should be no one offended. Until blacks get rid of the so-called "offensive" language in their own culture they have no right to complain.
Ditto the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and using the word "nigger" to refer to other blacks.
White people (as a group) are no longer the racists who further the blacks-as-inferior mentality. Most times they shackle themselves.
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