Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D), one of the leaders of the Democratic Party, said during the 2008 campaign season that Obama would be acceptable as President because he was a "light-skinned...Negro" and that he didn't speak with a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
In other words, Reid didn't want a black man as President. Obama was "close enough" to white to be acceptable.
In 2002, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R) said at a birthday party for Senator Strom Thurmond that he had voted for Thurmond for President. Since Thurmond had segregationist history, this was deemed so "racist" that Lott was forced to resign from his position and later from office entirely.
But Reid's statement, which is specifically anti-black, not just one which could be interpreted that way, is largely being overlooked.
I just sent this to my Federal representatives:
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It has recently come out that Harry Reid said during the 2008 campaign season that Obama would be acceptable as President because he was a "light-skinned...Negro" and that he didn't speak with a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
In other words, Reid didn't want a black man as President. Obama was "close enough" to white to be acceptable.
We do not need an overt racist in one of the most influential positions in American politics.
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