Joan Walsh Nails It

[berni_mccoy]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/01/10/reid_gaffe/

A Democrat's gaffe, the GOP's shame
Harry Reid chose his words poorly, but equating it with saying a racist would have made a good president is idiocy

Sure, it's depressing that Democrats have a Senate majority leader who thinks it's acceptable to use the term "Negro dialect," even in private, off-the-record conversation. It's not just that the term "Negro" was retired about 40 years ago; it's also the notion that there is any one "dialect" spoken by Americans of African descent.

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Oh sure: One guy is talking, perhaps inelegantly, about why he's wholeheartedly supporting our first black president; the other is wishing the country had elected a racist. That's exactly the same thing!

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We have much bigger problems, as a party and as a nation, than the reasons a powerful 70-year-old white politician endorsed Barack Obama for president. Let's get serious here.

By going after Reid, the GOP has reminded everyone just what kind of racism they are capable of.

Can we get on with HCR, Jobs, the Economy, etc... now?

[secondwind]

1. They don't seem to mind all the racism that is evident at Tea Party rallies,

now, do they? Hanging effigies, photo of Obama polishing Palin's heels, Curious George, children mimicking a monkey's antics, etc.



:puke:

[berni_mccoy]

4. Yes, it's completely disgusting.

[seeinfweggos]

2. as she so often does

dipshit john cornyn thinks it's the other way around. but he's a diphit.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Biingo!!!

Oh sure: One guy is talking, perhaps inelegantly, about why he's wholeheartedly supporting our first black president; the other is wishing the country had elected a racist. That's exactly the same thing!

[berni_mccoy]

5. Morning kick.

[joeybee12]

6. I agree...Repukes can't seem to grasp the difference that most people can..

and the longer they harp on this, the worse they look.

[Lucy Goosey]

7. Yes! Exactly!

All the GOP types seem to be able to latch on to is the fact that Reid used the word "Negro". Which he did, and he shouldn't have done, of course, but the righties once again show themselves completely incapable of understanding context and nuance.

All they can come up with is: "The word "Negro" is bad, therefore everyone who uses it is a horrible racist. Unless of course it's Rush Limbaugh using it in a hilarious song about the first Black President of the United States."