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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.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect." Obama is the nation's first African-American president.
Reid apologies for 'no Negro dialect' comment - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_el_se/us_obama_reid - broken link)
I don't see a problem with his comment or the apology. Are you trying to intimate that blacks do not have a different way that they talk? For some blacks that is just the way they talk. Others seem to turn it on or off depending on who they are talking to.
I hope you are not trying to say that this is not the case. One would have to be oblivious not to have noticed. In fact, sometimes I can't even understand blacks when they talk.
I don't see a problem with his comment or the apology. Are you trying to intimate that blacks do not have a different way that they talk? For some blacks that is just the way they talk. Others seem to turn it on or off depending on who they are talking to.
ok, put the shoe on the other foot and say John Boener said this. The lemmings would be up to page 82 of their usual drivel with ignorant name calling and ASSuming all non-lemmings must be racists.
Just because a Democrat said that... <shakes head>
I have no idea what you're talking about. I never said that any Republicans need to apologize for making similar comments.
Stay calm.
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