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Like I said, insensitive, but not racist. What do you call black people who make the same statements? As I said, the light/dark issue needs addressing.
I wonder why we don't allow republicans "access to us," whatever that means?
John
On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:46 PM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:
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> Horrible stuff that is 'truly' racist? What he said was racist. Just more subtly racist. If you don't like the term, how about racially unaware. What Reid said reinforced the notion that 'lighter' is better and that the more blacks resemble whites then the easier they are accepted by white people. That gets pretty old, you know what I mean? Unconscious and silent racism is still racism and it is actually far more damaging because it comes in beneath the radar and people discount it thereby allowing it to continue unabated.
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> I keep trying to tell y'all, but y'all don't believe me, there are just as many if not more racist dems, liberal or otherwise as republicans. It's easier for the dems because we allow them access to us and we as black people overlook and explain away dems racist/racially unaware actions and words.
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> This is not good for us as a people and not good for our children to watch and absorb. How do you think Obama's daughters felt about what Reid said about their father? How is that supposed to make them feel as younng black women? What Reid said legitimizes the view that goal attainment of American blacks is dependent upon their skin color or lack thereof.
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> House nigras always did have the better jobs cause they were lighter skinned. Us darkies had to work out in the fields, doing the hard labor.
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> Isn't it time we got past that? Reid's comments are not helping and it disgusts me to see so many black people excuse away what he said. Get some backbone. Even if nothing is done about it, at least acknowledge the wrongness of what he said. I promise they won't take away your 'ginuwine' liberal card.
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> From: John Stafford Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:11 pm
> Subject: Re: G.O.P. Attacks Reid Over Comments
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>> It is a cold, sad fact of nature: Barack Obama would not have been
>> elected were he darker, and always spoke "in a Negro dialect," not
>> just when he wanted to. The most constructive way to confront that
>> American "condition" of race aesthetics is head on than executing the
>> messenger. I understand, and agree with, the verbal part, but why
>> would people not elect a darker candidate than Barack Obama?
>> Attacking Biden and Reid for expressing conventional American race
>> aesthetics with the racist hammer only serves to diminish the horrible
>> stuff that is truly racist. Their comments may have been insensitive,
>> but each man thought he was being complimentary. You may not know
>> this, but many African Americans would voice the same thing.
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>> The mainstreaming of ghetto blackness has tragically taken its toll.
>> But on the other side of the coin, who will vote to elect a
>> gum-poppin', g-droppin', trailer park fabulous, white woman as
>> President? Call me racist, but I would never vote for Palin. Not
>> even if she were a liberal.
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>> John
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>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:38 AM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:
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>>> Hmm. How is what Harry Reid said any different from Joe Biden's
>> 'clean and articulate' comment? Saying that Obama wouldn't have been
>> elected if he were darker and spoke differently practically begs for
>> the days of the house n*** & the field n***. Oh, wait a minute...
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>>> This took a great deal of time."
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: John Stafford Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:18 am
>>> Subject: Re: G.O.P. Attacks Reid Over Comments
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>>>> To be blunt about it, Michael Steele is an ass. He is the
>> proverbial
>>>> Uncle Tom: an [N-word] functionary and enabler of Southern
>>>> Dixie-crats. He is continually and willingly thrust front and
>> center
>>>> by redneck politicians to do their biding in reconstructing what
>>>> constitutes racism.
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>>>> Anyone who compares what Harry Reid said to Trent Lott's longing
>> for
>>>> the days of segregation (and of Strom Thurmond clandestinely
>>>> impregnating black women) is mentally deficient.
>>>>
>>>> John
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>>>> On Jan 11, 2010, at 8:53 AM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:
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>>>>> G.O.P. Attacks Reid Over Comments
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>>>>> By MARK LEIBOVICH
>>>>> Published: January 10, 2010
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>>>>> WASHINGTON — Republicans on Sunday sought to portray racially
>>>> insensitive remarks attributed to Harry Reid, the Senate majority
>>>> leader, in a new book as similar to comments made in 2002 by Trent
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>>>> Lott, the Republican leader who was forced to step down.
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>>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/us/politics/11reid.html?th&emc=th
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