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So, I thought I would share some of what others are saying about the situation with Harry Reid's comments about Barack Obama speaking "negro dialect". Is Harry Reid racist?
Carlos Anthony Thomas is the issue that he used the term negro or that he stated what we already know but only talk about in our community? personally, i'm only saddened by his used of the term "negro"...demonstrates how archaic his perspective is... Yesterday at 4:22pm · 
Jeff Owens "NEGRO???" ....I'm speechless. (well, not really... but nothing I'd say here. I'll pause before reacting.) Yesterday at 4:42pm ·
Victoria Boateng I don't know what in the hell, Mr. Reid was thinking about using the word "NEGRO". That is simply racist. I mean you had the audacity to call him out because of his intellectual and how well he speaks. Yes he might be light-skined, but he is still black and a great candidate. That is to show how people envy each other. It is ashamed. Yesterday at 5:38pm ·
Yvonne Sullivan Wow! I agree with Carlos though. We all know that Reid stated the truth. We know that talking "White" or being light skinned makes us more palatable to others - including ourselves. Do I agree with that reality? It does not matter. But I prefer to use proper English when I speak and write. The truth is: Your opportunities are limited when you do...See More Yesterday at 5:46pm · Victoria Boateng @Yvonne, Why would rather have a white man call you a NEGRO, do you think that something is wrong with that. Plus I agree that your brother or sister shouldn't call you a nigger as well as white people calling you NEGRO. Yesterday at 5:50pm · Victoria Boateng Plus, I am a young person and I don't text or IMG- messaging, but sometimes when you are texting to someone, you don't want to take long and write the whole letter out, but the problem is young people get addicted to texting that they forget how to write the correct way or use accurate grammer. Yesterday at 5:51pm ·Click here to read more of the comments. If you'd like to become my friend on facebook, you can click here.
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By: Emma L Williams on 1/12/2010 10:35AM
Having been a productive educator for over twenty-five years, and an "Afro-American" up from slavery in The United States of America, Harry Reid's comment should remind us that if we do not know and own our history---we are bound to repeat it. "We" is a term that includes each and every culture of people who call ourselves "American." How can we be what we do not know, and how can we know "it" if we do not accept the truth (History) of "it."
Was "Negro History Week" racist? Was Dr. Martin Luther King jr's reference to himself and us as "Negro" racist? Is "Black History Month--(minus a lot of days)" racist? The messenger must live and thrive.
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By: Delma on 1/13/2010 2:01PM
What dialect did Lyndon B.Johnson speak. That was not english. He talked worse than a lot of Black people I have heard speak. And I don't care what the supreme court says or anybody out there. Barak Obama is just as white as he is black. Take it or leasve it!
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By: Tom Degan on 1/13/2010 6:08AM
For the Republicans to now claim a newly-found racial sensitivity is quite amusing to say the least. If that is the case, why the hell did they choose the dumbest black guy they could possibly find to chair the RNC? Racial sensitivity? Please.
Harry Reid will survive this little snafu he's gotten into - but just barely. As the numbers stand, he is not likely to be reelected this November. He should step aside with dignity and allow his party to nominate someone with a better chance of winning on Election Day. Maybe he will do the right thing - who knows?. In spite of everything he strikes me as essentially a decent guy. He should just go back to Nevada to a dignified retirement and bask in the glow of his career as a public servant - or go to work as a lobbyist for the gambling industry - anything. He just needs to realize that his number is up.
Reid's comments, while inarticulate, hardly constitute the fuss that is currently being made. All it really amounts to is the GOP's Kvetch Du Jour. They have so little credibility left that it really is quite touching watching them stoop to these non-issues. It is total desperation on their part. Today it is Harry Reid's harmless gaffe; tomorrow it will be something equally stupid and irrelevant. Just you wait and see.
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By: rocky on 1/13/2010 8:18AM
ITS NOT WHAT YOU SAY ITS HOW YOU SAY IT.....
I think the way he said it was the problem and not like other I did not vote for him because if his dialect but of how he proposed the change we needed from the 8yrs of Hell the previous president put the nation thru.....
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By: U.D. on 1/13/2010 11:47AM
If Obama was still Obama but "DARK-skinned" and "WITH a Negro dialect" would he have still been elected president?
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By: John E. Jones on 1/26/2010 4:02PM
Dear Senator Reid,
Thank you for continuing to serve honorably as the Senate Majority Leader. You are doing an outstanding job and your accomplishments outweigh any negative criticism aimed at you.
This letter is a follow up to a letter I sent to you back in June of 2009 regarding the urgent and overwhelming need for the public acknowledgement of the grave harm done to black Americans throughout most of our American history. As I stated before, this is substantiated by the plight of many black Americans along with the subdued patriotism among black Americans even though there is a black president in office. And once again I pose this burning question, “Can the government of the United States of America, both House and Senate combined, make available one official written apology, suitable for framing, acknowledging profound regret for slavery along with a ceremonious public apology for allowing the enslavement of black people resulting in the ensuing protracted African American struggle for freedom, equality and justice?” Once again I say “YES WE CAN” and right now is the time.
My fifty plus years of personal observation along with my recent studies of the black American history that was omitted during my formal education has revealed that most black Americans alive today have been adversely affected directly or indirectly from centuries of racism, oppression, and deprivation. From the year 1619 until 1865, most black Americans suffered from enslavement or overt oppression. From 1865 until about 1965 most black Americans endured oppression, restricted freedom, limited civil rights and we in certain parts of the South are still afflicted by entrenched institutional racism. The time is ripe to heal these deep seated wounds once and for all.
A written apology would formally expose and acknowledge the pervasive scope of past racial oppression in America. Secondly, a sincere apology would allow our nation to once and for all express heartfelt sorrow in such a way that it would allow black Americans to release the hidden and suppressed resentment of America’s long and lasting era of allowing the oppression of people who wanted to love America when America didn’t love us. And when America finally does issue an official apology, suitable for framing, to every black American who wants one, I really do believe that God will Bless America like never before! A formal ceremony during the upcoming Black History Month would be very befitting. I certainly hope you agree.
Sincerely,
John E. Jones
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By: KwameG on 1/16/2010 1:40PM
Who put you black people up to this foolishness? Some old white guy, made an honest observation and people, Black people are insulted, because he was honest, because he use the word Negro..what are you thinking? You have five year old kids using the N word every five second and you are upset over this, get out and do something positive for your community and and stop trippin.
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