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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.
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.
John
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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> 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
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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.
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>> 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
>> 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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