Reid Redux II

More on Reid...

From Argus Hamilton (at JewishWorldReview)...

Harry Reid was backed by the NAACP for complimenting Barack Obama as a light-skinned African-American with no Negro dialect. Of course they did. Any organization with Colored People still in its name would have to consider Negro dialect the King's English.

Senator Harry Reid was quoted praising Barack Obama for being a light-skinned black and having no Negro dialect. He was assessing his strengths and urging him to run for president. At the time, Barack Obama was the only black in the U.S. Senate and Harry Reid wanted to get him out of there before he brought down the property values.


From Larry Elder (at TownHall.com)...

Luckily, Reid found Obama in a more magnanimous mood than the President was when -- during the Great Harvard Professor Racial Profiling Case -- he accused the Cambridge police of acting "stupidly." Timing (and party affiliation) is everything....

"Light-skinned"? Didn't black director Spike Lee do a film, "School Daze," about how light-skinned fraternity students considered themselves more appealing than their dark-skinned counterparts?

"Negro"? The term is on this year's census. What about the United Negro College Fund?...

And from Paul Gottfried at LewRockwell.com...

This double standard may be riling some Republicans, and it may help explain the hysteria...But there is also more to the story than my readers recognize. For decades the GOP’s share of the black vote has been falling steadily; and although that vote could rise slightly from its present 2%, it is not likely that the GOP...will be able to garner 20% of the black vote.

...there is no way the GOP can presently outbid the Democrats in offering set-asides and public money to minorities...Republican presidents have to deal with at least some strict constitutionalists among their constituents....

All the same, the Republicans can outdo the Democrats as PC purists. They can scream at Democrats for not destroying Harry Reid for his innocuous observations about Obama’s pigmental advantage spoken in private company. They can also wallow in guilt about American racism, like presidential candidate McCain after losing the election to our first black president or Bush lamenting American slavery in Senegal in July 2003....

It is also the case that...it was the Reps, not the Dems, who "immolated" Lott, in the words of Dan McCarthy, as a propitiatory offering to blacks....But such a useless strategy can be continued because until now it has done nothing to drive away most of the white Republican core....