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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
You are right, there was nothing mean-spirited in Reid's remark.
It was however, incredibly demeaning. So a light-skinned Negro who speaks proper English is a "good" candidate, while a dark-skinned black might be perceived as more threatening?
Stupid stupid comments.
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Stupid, but honest. White America is not going to elect Al Sharpton outside of a congressional post where he can draw upon a narrow band of the citizenry.
Jessee Jackson was too black to rise to the top in national electoral politics.
I'm not wild about Reid. Never have been. But I'd take him over Trent Lott in a heartbeat, and this business of conflating Reid's recent remarks and Lott's Thurmond remarks is pure nonsense. Not in the same hemisphere.
Bill Cosby and other prominent blacks have spoken on the value of black youth learning to speak proper English.