“The way he said it was quite awkward, but nonetheless, not offensive. That what he said was actually part of a calculus as to why he believed Barack Obama could be elected in this country today.”
NAACP Rep. Hilary Shelton
On Harry Reid calling Obama a light-skinned negro
It’s Official– “Negro” Is Now NAACP Approved
The NAACP joined with the Congressional Black Caucus today to stand in support of Harry Reid calling Barack Obama a light-skinned negro.
Via FOX News
Ann Coulter responded to this blatant double standard best in her discussion with Al Sharpton: “You know you would not put up with this for 5 seconds if it was a Republican.”
January 11th, 2010 | 12:38 pm | #1
Double standards?
What double standards?
January 11th, 2010 | 12:38 pm | #2
So then is it okay to use the word “Negro” when describing blacks?
January 11th, 2010 | 12:45 pm | #3
Add “Negro” to your dictionary.
January 11th, 2010 | 12:49 pm | #4
This negro gentleman says it is not offensive, so darn it, it is not offensive.
I guess we can now put a sign on the door of the CBC saying “Negros only” and the NAACP can say they are for the advancement of Negros.
Dems are going to regret this.
January 11th, 2010 | 12:51 pm | #5
We have let them get off track. The main problem is Reid calling Americans racist. Even after we elected a Black President, we can’t get away from these racists perpetuating the idea that we, living in the real world rather than the Universe of Lies, are just like them. Dingy Harry does not speak for me. I’d vote for someone who says ‘dis and ‘dat as long as they told the truth, unlike the Marxist Negro in the Oval and his certainly diverse group of minions.
January 11th, 2010 | 1:38 pm | #6
Negro it is now. The one is a Negro and no one can call me racist for saying that. Actually he isn’t a real Negro only half.
January 11th, 2010 | 1:44 pm | #7
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January 11th, 2010 | 1:45 pm | #8
If my name was Hilary and I wasn’t a woman I would be a little upset. Imagine growing up a black man with a woman’s name.
That is the issue here, that is why I don’t take this guys opinion seriously.
I’ll wait until pastor manning makes his ruling if using the word “negro” is acceptable in polite society.
As far as whether Reid is a racist or not, I never met a democrat who wasn’t a racist, so that isn’t even a question for me.
Obama already said all he was going to say in this matter and wishes to be left alone to reflect on his inner self and start planning for his reelection.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/S0WWgK4-A2I/AAAAAAAACHk/Q90mZAwpsXg/s1600-h/MIddle.bmp
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January 11th, 2010 | 1:55 pm | #9
Black is black
I want my baby back
What can I do
Cause, I, I, I, I, I, I’m feeling blue
– Papa Smurf
January 11th, 2010 | 1:55 pm | #10
Isn’t it ironic that Obama was the first negro elected President? Jesse and Al had their chances and we end up with a negro like Obama…oh, well.
January 11th, 2010 | 2:00 pm | #11
The democrats are disgusting hypocrites, but we already knew that.
January 11th, 2010 | 2:17 pm | #12
It just goes to show us all that the left is protecting their “race industry” they have to have it to use as a tool for their adgenda. I wonder how our Americans of color feel about being used for the Democratic Party? Man, we’ve come a long way in the last couple hundred years, eh?
January 11th, 2010 | 2:32 pm | #13
There isn’t racial tension in this country that the Liberals haven’t ginned up. They have painted themselves as the salvation for Black Americans, and they have bought into the lie for years. How does reducing a large population of our country into government controlled, Big Brother welfare not turning them back into slaves – only this time as a tool for the government??
January 11th, 2010 | 2:33 pm | #14
I wish I were better able to express myself sometimes… this is one of those times.
Harry Reid Said: “…light-skinned African-American” and “no negro dialect unless he wants one”
Both of these statements suggests to me that Harry Reid ideated that light-skinned was more preferable than dark-skinned, and that no Negro dialect was more advantageous than having a negro dialect… if this is the case, and Harry Reid did in fact make a self-determination that “Light-skinned” is more preferable than dark-skinned, and that “no negro dialect” is more preferential than having a “negro dialect” than this would infer that characteristics specific to a particular race had been judged to be more desirable, and thus would constitute racism per se.
Reid’s (and other apologists) use his statements to refute the charge of racism, but in reality the fact that he considered these variables before deciding that these were positive attributes certainly do not preclude his views being racist, rather they suggest that he merely has a preference for one attribute over the other purely for political expediency… in short, I believe that Harry Reid does harbor racist feelings, and has made the mistake of verbalizing them.
January 11th, 2010 | 2:45 pm | #15
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we need to stop talking about RACE and start talking about the VERY
REAL THREAT WE FACE FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM IN OUR
OWN BACK YARDS & INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT AMERICA!!
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January 11th, 2010 | 2:54 pm | #16
I think I’ll ask the people on the street one goes about getting a Negro accent, and why it would hinder a Negro’s ability to be a presidential candidate.
Also, I would like a copy of the Democrat’s official rules of what kind of Negro is acceptable and can run for public office. I would like to know the rest of the disqualifications, other than skin color and dialect. I am certain there is more.
Poor obama. He has just turned into a sick joke by his own party.
January 11th, 2010 | 2:55 pm | #17
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i can only hope and pray everyone in
the US is listening to Rush Limbaugh..
then again, not everyone in the US can handle
the truth, least of all hypocritical Dems et al..
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January 11th, 2010 | 2:59 pm | #18
Someone needs to check into the United Negro College Fund and see who they have been writing checks to for all these years.
January 11th, 2010 | 3:04 pm | #19
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who crowned Obama the arbiter of “forgiveness”??
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January 11th, 2010 | 3:17 pm | #20
NAACP+ Ni**er = Permissible Discourse. Well I did not see that happening in for at least a century.
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January 11th, 2010 | 3:04 pm | #19
who crowned Obama the arbiter of “forgiveness”??
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Look BOZOFRAUD cannot forgive diddlely-squat. He is not God, nor a messiah. He also hates Christians which makes him anti-Christian. Since Bozo the Sissy Raging Clown of Mental Illness is advocating and spewing hatred, we know he is of the Devil and is quite evil all around. He has nearly destroyed the U.S.A. and has three years left in which to accomplish this feat.
January 11th, 2010 | 3:36 pm | #21
You forgot to mention that it’s only acceptable when coming from a *Democrat*.
From anyone else, it’d be raaaaacist.
January 11th, 2010 | 3:42 pm | #22
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January 11th, 2010 | 4:08 pm | #23
Ah man, and I hired three dark skinned negros..I should have held out for lighter skinned ones I guess. Too late to go back now.
January 11th, 2010 | 4:16 pm | #24
I see not one person here has the guts to acknowledge that in regards to skin tone Reid was only speaking the sad truth. That trust is offensive. Speaking the truth should be never be offensive.
January 11th, 2010 | 4:20 pm | #25
huh?
January 11th, 2010 | 4:30 pm | #26
Greetings:
I grew up in the Bronx in the ’50s and ’60s. When I would refer to Negroes as “colored people”, my mother would correct me by saying, “They’re not colored, they’re born that way.”
With this latest brouhaha, I can’t help but wonder if we have lost the ability to discriminate between “racial” comments and “racist” comments. While I can certainly grant that Senator Reid’s comments would qualify, in my mind, as racial, I don’t see that they rise to the level of racist. The latter implies some significant level of negative feeling.
I have a lot more of a problem with people trying to move “Negro” into the steadily growing category that includes “the n-word”. Negro is a racial word; “the n-word” is racist.
January 11th, 2010 | 4:44 pm | #27
The Obama logo should be the Oreo cookie.
January 11th, 2010 | 5:06 pm | #28
Actually, jonyjoe, “Hilary” is one of those men’s names that has been co-opted for girls.
St. Hilary’s feast day is, in fact, on Wednesday, Jan. 13. He was an early Christian martyr.
But you are right on everything else. But I also consider racial/racist controversies a distraction from the real problems, so don’t get into them much.
January 11th, 2010 | 5:13 pm | #29
I’ve always called myself a light-skinned Negress. Solaratov can attest to this.
January 11th, 2010 | 5:26 pm | #30
BTW, Hilary looked liked an absolute idiot in his attempt to spin this. I hold the NAACP in the same regard as Sharpton and Jackson. I hope, and pray that this will cause more blinders to fall off across the black community, particuarly those in higher eduaction (students).
His assertion that Reid has pushed for legislation that “helps” minorities should cause many to question “why”? Should, being the operative word here. His statements are revealing, and the most die-hard black activist should see that his statements are indicative of the democratic party as a whole.I mean, COME FREAKING ON here!!! You have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to not see this!! What else do youneed black people??
January 11th, 2010 | 6:23 pm | #31
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just fyi: this man “decided” Obama would run for the presidency as a
Black man, whatever that means to black people, as many were just as discriminating (aka: racist) towards blacks as whites were, as the lovely Eartha Kit could attest to if she were still with US..
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January 11th, 2010 | 6:33 pm | #32
It is so odd when these groups who’s purpose is suppose to help or protect the people they we’re founded on, just go against the core principals that they supposedly believe in with such obious and reckless disregard.
We saw the womens groups dissolve into irrelevancy when Palin ran for VP and now the NAACP shills for Reid.
Reid meant what he said when he said he would back a light skinned non negro dialect speaking African American, I bet Jesse Jackson is feeling kind of dejected being he didn’t pass the racial litmus test with Reid and his pals when he ran for president.
January 11th, 2010 | 6:40 pm | #33
Mr. Shelton needs to look at Marcus Garvey ,before he opens his mouth.
January 11th, 2010 | 6:45 pm | #34
Reid meant what he said when he said he would back a light skinned non negro dialect speaking African American
What Reid said is true. Prejudice still exists, and much of it is unconscious. A lighter-skinned black man who doesn’t sound black has a better chance of being elected, all things being equal, than a darker-skinned black man who does sound black. And as a politician whose job it is to think like a political strategist, there is nothing wrong with him saying it.
The only question is whether or not his use of the word “Negro” reflected conscious or unconscious racism, and here the man deserves the benefit of the doubt given his record on civil rights.
January 11th, 2010 | 6:58 pm | #35
The only question is whether or not his use of the word “Negro” reflected conscious or unconscious racism, and here the man deserves the benefit of the doubt given his record on civil rights.
What I meant to say was that he’s a gentleman of a certain age, and was well into adulthood before “black” and “African-American” became the respectful terms, so perhaps in thinking about racial matters he just reverted to old usage. Then again, he has apologized, so perhaps I’m wrong. Or perhaps his apology was a spineless surrender to political correctness.
Either way, the parallel Republicans have attempted to draw to Trent Lott’s racial gaffe is ridiculous. Lott effectively said that the country would have been better off without the civil rights revolution. Now that’s racist.
January 11th, 2010 | 8:01 pm | #36
OK-NAACP, is a group of colored people. Or is it people of color?
Negro is the actual race of African natives, but it can’t be used on census forms to describe their descendants.
Black started back in the “black power” era. African American could mean a caucasian person whose ancestors came from Africa.
Why all the line drawing and distinctions? Unless you really prefer to keep things segregated.
P.S. Harry Reid is not, nor do I believe he has ever been, a gentleman. Ken, like Harry, is always on the wrong side of things.
January 11th, 2010 | 8:47 pm | #37
Ladue, thanks for your reply. If “Ladue” for most of your life was a name that implied inferior status on your part, wouldn’t you attempt to change your name once you had that power, and is it not possible that as you gradually fought off the sense of inferiority the name had implied, you’d change it to one thing and then, as your thoughts settled, settle on another?
Also, since when does the definition of “gentleman” have anything to do with being on the right side of an issue? Do you really mean to suggest that good people can’t be liberal? We all see through a glass darkly, no, conservatives and liberals alike?
January 11th, 2010 | 10:00 pm | #38
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re-posting this in here..
“house negroes” 1
“house negroes” 2
“house negroes” 3
BE CIVIL?
By Frances Rice
It’s a sure sign that Republicans are winning a debate on issues when Democrats, aided by well-meaning civility police pundits and activists, demand that Republicans stop showing their passion and “be civil”.
I am still waiting for those with such a keen sense of civility to demand that Democrats cease their unrelenting and uncivil, even racist, attacks on black Republicans. I won’t hold my breath.
High on the Democrats’ list of those to be denigrated are accomplished black Republicans who do not toe the Democrats’ liberal agenda line. Shamefully, Democrats do not want poor black children to have as role models any black person who does not engage in victim mongering and works hard to become prosperous rather than become dependent on government handouts.
The message that Democrats gives to poor blacks is despicable. If you remain poor, uneducated and vote for Democrats, we will celebrate your victimhood. If you get a good education, get a good job and vote for Republicans, we will denigrate you as “acting white”, a “sellout”, an “Uncle Tom”, a “House Negro”, a “House N-word”, a “Lawn Jockey”, and worse..
Brazenly, on the left-wing Internet website called “The News Blog,” Democrats posted a doctored photograph of then Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele (now chairman of the RNC) when he was running for a Senate seat, depicting Steele as a “Simple Sambo” with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: “Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house”. This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation.
In addition to other outrageous racist images of Dr. Condoleezza Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger depicted Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot “mammy”, reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie “Gone with the Wind” about the slave era black woman who remarked: “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ no babies”. This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation.
Democrats now love Gen. Colin Powell, but spewed out racist attacks on Powell before he endorsed Obama and embraced the liberal agenda of higher taxes and a bigger government to provide poverty producing handouts to blacks.
A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were “House Negroes”. That video can be found on the Internet.
An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a “House Negro”.
With impunity, the late Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy called black judicial nominees, including Judge Janice Rogers Brown, “Neanderthals”. Democrat Senator Harry Reid slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an incompetent Negro who could not write good English. “Slap at Thomas stinks of racism,” was the headline of the New York Daily News’ December 7, 2004 editorial.
Even black Democrats will be maligned if they dare step off of the Democratic Party’s political plantation. When black Democrat Juan Williams wrote his book entitled “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America” that exposed the deplorable conditions in black communities caused by the Democrats running those communities, Williams was denounced on national TV by another black Democrat as a “Happy Negro”.
For details about how Democrats during the 1960’s even smeared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican, see the article posted on the NBRA website.
“Civility, Ours and Theirs” is an article that provides more details about how Democrats vilify black Republicans while wagging their finger at Republicans about being civil.
Our political discourse can be elevated to the high standards demanded by the civility police only when Democrats are also required to play by the rules of civility.
links @ link..
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January 11th, 2010 | 10:32 pm | #39
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Callipygian1 @ 2:33 pm #14
re: [wish I were better able to express myself]
you not only expressed yourself well..
but imho, your analysis was spot on!! (thumbsup)
thank you..
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January 11th, 2010 | 10:32 pm | #40
Ken
January 11th, 2010 | 6:45 pm | #34
The only question is whether or not his use of the word “Negro” reflected conscious or unconscious racism, and here the man deserves the benefit of the doubt given his record on civil rights.
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What “record”?
The democRATS have never done anything FOR the black citizens of America.
If you’ll recall, it was the democRATs who consistently opposed the abolition of slavery. And, they were responsible for ALL of the jim cerow laws ever put on the books. AND they were the party which formed, supported and used the “services” of the KKK.
Even during the “civil rights era” of the 50s and 60s, it was the democRATs who fought any legislation to give equal rights to blacks — and, if it was not for the Republicans, the Civil Rights Act never would have been passed.
And, before you start yammering about all of the legislation democrATs have passed to give assistance to blacks and other minorities – and the poor in general – you have to admit that welfare, in general, has made blacks almost totally dependent upon liberal government largess to survive, destroyed the black nuclear family as a unit – and has managed to place blacks back into a condition of slavery. Only this time, the democRATs used softer chains and conned the new slaves into putting them on themselves. The inner cities are the new plantation; and the democRATs are doing all that they can to keep “their” blacks imprisoned there.
And harry reid is as responsible as anyone in the democRAT party for the “new enslavement” of the American blacks.
Harry reid is just another racist who believes that it doesn’t matter what he says – no matter how racist – because blacks *have* to keep the democRATs if they want to keep their soft chains. Reid has nothing but contempt for blacks (and illegals/latinos, but that’s a different case), because he knows that he can always appropriate a little more money to smooth over any disruptions on the plantation.
Harry reid is a vile, despicable, racist, anti-American piece of trash who desperately needs the defeat that he’ll suffer in 11/10. The only thing that would be better than reid’s defeat would be for him to suffer a massive stroke this week.
January 12th, 2010 | 12:11 am | #41
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Solaratov @ 10:32 pm #40
re: [What “record”?]
hah, aside from waiting on Ken to debate #38.. i’m still waiting for Ken @
#19 in another thread to enlighten me as to Harry’s civil rights record as
well..
would would think he had such knowledge
right “off the top of his head” so to speak..
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January 12th, 2010 | 12:19 am | #42
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That is very white of them.
January 12th, 2010 | 11:05 am | #43
Ken, you know very well that any Republican who said that lighter skin was more electable than darker skin would be run out of politics. No Republican would get away with the excuse that he was merely observing something about other people’s inclinations (aka prejudices). The Dems would howl that obviously he was revealing his own prejudices.
Those same Dems are constantly saying that any substantive objection to Dem-left policies–whether they’re pushed by the “lighter-skinned” Obama or by the pasty-faced Harry Reid–is motivated by deep and unacknowledged racism.
And they say that conservatives are hypocrites!
January 12th, 2010 | 9:15 pm | #44
Cassandra, I agree that the Dems would attack any Republicans who said what Reid said, but context does matter, and whether or not you think Dem policies help minorities, Reid does, and so they’re convinced he’s no racist.
I do not say that any opposition to Obama, or to Dem social programs, is racist, and it’s a myth that all or even most Dems think that way, but hey, white racism does exist. And what Trent Lott essentially said is that the country would have been better off without the civil rights revolution, and how that’s not blatantly racist, I don’t know.
January 24th, 2010 | 10:33 pm | #45
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