Harry Reid apologizes for calling Barack Obama a “negro”
Those who oppose the president’s agenda and those who have joined the tea party movement across the country have been attacked for being racists. Why else would anyone not like Barack Obama? If you do not like him or his agenda you are a bigot, that is how we are being portrayed on an almost daily basis. We have heard it all, even before the election by those that said too many white people would not vote for Barack Obama because of his color for him to be electable. They were wrong.
The opposition by most people to this president’s agenda is based on just that– his agenda. Those who join the tea party movement also joined for the same reason– his agenda. It has nothing to do with race and it never has, but the supporters of Barack Obama knew that this movement was legitimate and they knew that it had the potential to derail the president’s agenda so instead of having an honest debate the left tried to attack those who oppose the president in the most convenient means possible– be branding us as racists.
Naturally there are those who oppose Barack Obama because of his race and there are those who have joined the tea party movement because of his race– but they are few and far between. The vast majority of those who oppose the president do so because of what he represents, not what he looks like. But there are racists from and in all walks of life and you can tell quite a bit about a person by his or her words in an unscripted moment. This leads us to Harry Reid.
Here is what Harry Reid said about Barack Obama several months ago when he did not think that his words were going to be used in a book:
he called Barack Obama a “light-skinned” African-American who lacked a “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,”
Now that would appear to be the words of a racist to me, there is no other explanation for Harry Reid’s comments. It is blatantly racist, not only that, Harry Reid is calling Barack Obama a phony. By mentioning that Barack Obama talks in a different manner depending on the people he is talking to– and isn’t that what Harry Reid is accusing Barack Obama of doing– he is implying that Barack Obama is a Chameleon looking to change who he is or who he appears to be in front of different people.
Harry Reid has apologized— and the president has accepted his apology– for his “poor choice of words,” but not for the sentiment that those words conveyed. Does he actually feel they way that he said he did? Is he only sorry for the words that he used in conveying that sentiment? One has to wonder; as I said, you can tell quite a bit about a person by what he says in an unscripted moment. Yet top Democrats are defending Harry Reid, even going as far as to claim that he meant it in a positive manner and claiming that Barack Obama was “recognizing in Senator Obama a great candidate and future president.” I am not sure how you can spin Harry Reid’s comment to mean anything other than what his comment implies.
There is a double standard at play here, we all know that. While the people who joined the tea party for legitimate reasons, and who oppose the president based on the issues, have to endure false claims of racism, we have a man– the leader of the Democrat party in the senate, no less– who made a clearly racist and derogatory remark. he made that remark because he thought that nobody would ever find out about it and he has now apologized only because the American people did find out about it. Yet the same people who are making the fraudulent claims about the tea party movement are strangely silent on Harry Reid’s racist remark. They are circling the wagons around Harry Reid and defending him because they claim he can not possibly be a racist because his record indicates that he has done so much for minorities.
To the defenders of Harry Reid I would ask, is it at all possible that Harry Reid finds minority groups essential to his re-election? Is it possible that he has been using these groups and feigned support for these groups in spite of how he actually feels about them to further his political career? If Harry Reid did not find minority groups essential to his remaining in power would he have still done as much to help the “negro?” Or would he more publically display the animosity towards them as he did to Barack Obama in private when he thought nobody would hear him?
Even if we give Harry Reid the benefit of the doubt and we accept the fact that he is sorry and that he harbored no ill feelings to Barack Obama, what does his statement about Barack Obama say about Obama’s integrity that he thinks Obama is willing to change who he appears to be based on who he is talking to?
This case highlights perfectly the juxtaposition between those that oppose the president based on his policies and how they are portrayed and perceived as racists, with a man who has made blatantly racists comments and is forgiven simply because of party affiliation.
America's Watchtower 
As always, if a republican did this, it would be a whole different story.
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I agree. There would literally be “hell to pay” if it had been anyone besides a Democrat and an Obama supporter that made the statement in question.
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An observation:
Where’s Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Those two would normally be stirring up a stink. Isn’t Reid one of those rich privileged white guys?
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Sharpton’s actually defending Reid’s comment this time around. I’ll try to find a link to his interview this morning.
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Reid will stay and continue to prove to the world that the dems do not care about anything but party.
The next time a Republican makes the same mistake the stupid party will force him out.
Remember…Make your enemies live up to their own standards.
The dems have no standard of behavior so they are free to do and say what they like while the stupid party marches into oblivion with a clear conscience.
How nice…You don’t like it? Stop being stupid.
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Eric Holder: Harry Reid doesn’t have a prejudice bone in his body…
The DemonRats are lining up to support Reid, truth and honesty be damned…
But I digress…
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Im sorry I called you a white guy
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2:25 pm: press conference—- he was rambling, losing his train of thought, to me it seems as if he was trying to make himself appear slightly feeble. At the end of it he was asked if he would resign, he did not answer– he just walked away. Right now it’s looking like he won’t have a choice but to retire. Now I just wonder if the dems will kee fighting, or kind of give up and blame…. whoever. And I slso heard it may now be the unions that will bring down Obamacare? WOW!
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keeP!
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Did you mean to write: “Barack Obama was “recognizing in Senator Obama a great candidate and future president.” If you did, I’m not understanding what you mean.
As for Reid, I can’t think of one time in my entire life – and that 47 years worth – that I have ever even thought of a ‘racist’ comment like that. I just don’t see the world that way.
And I think that is the point. Reid obviously see the world in a way that some are better than others and vice versa. That is racist.
Do I think that we are playing a game here. Yes and no. I think that Obama and Reid will do whatever tap dance they have to do to get their agenda(s) through. On the other hand, I think this is how these people really are. We are witnessing the very essence of Reid, Obama, Pelosi and their ilk. For them, this is appropriate behavior.
In addition, I totally agree with your assessment that there is a double-standard. For us, the rules of behavior amongst there own kind, is not acceptable for us to engage in.
This reminds me of how black people can call each other the N word but God forbid a white person uses it. To me that has always been odd. If the word is bad in one usage, why not in the other.
It is that same sort of thinking that appears to be in play here.
Anyway, that is how I see it.
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Sorry, it should have read “Harry Reid was recognizing” not “Barack Obama”, my brain was moving faster than my fingers. 🙂
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I understand one simple fact—you cannot tell the truth in Washington–it forbidden! Obama is a light-skinned negro who speaks like a white man. Is there a lie there somewhere? Is the word “Negro” now on that list with the other “N” word? Whats happening here. I don’t condemn Harry for speaking a truth–its rare in Washington. I do condemn him for doing a mea culpa at the alter of Obama.
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Hey I just wanted to let you know I linked you….keep up the good fight sir!
http://governmentmess.blogspot.com/2010/01/conservative-blogosphere-shout-out-top.html
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Hey Texas Fred, isn’t Eric Holder showing what a true coward he is? He’s just too scared to discuss race, too scared to hammer Reid, too scared to hammer the Black panthers. Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, NAACP-all cowards. Either that, or their race scam has been exposed.
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