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Originally Posted by hi_im_god
get the chip off your shoulder if you're going to post down here. taking anything i posted in this thread personally is laughably egotistical. when did i say anything about you? why would i bother?
getting back to the point. since you are insisting what reid said is racist, could you parse that out for me? what specifically was racist about it? explain it to me. you are the one insisting on putting an equal sign between what reid said and what lott said. i'm saying it isn't there and i already posted my thoughts on why.
don't keep coming on here saying it's obviously racist without explaining. i don't think it is. i think it's much closer to profiling of white voters. why am i wrong?
btw: i think i also misspelled "believe" in the earlier post.
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If you need me to explain to you why his comments are racist, then you are more lost than I ever imagined. Not even Reid is making that contention and he apologized for a reason. You just can't admit that there is a double standard, if this was a Republican, people, like Harry Reid, would be calling for his/her head.
As for it being "closer to profiling of white voters," that is a nice try at a spin on it. Are you saying if it is true then the comments are not racist? When has that ever been a defense to racism? Do you really believe that racist whites are more apt to vote for a light skinned African-American candidate than a darker skinned candidate? There will always be idiots that will vote along racist lines, but the vast majority of whites made it clear by electing Obama that Reid's racist views are overwhelmingly not true, the mistake the majority of voters made was buying into Obama's flawed, unrealistic policies.
You, and many other Democrats, only defend Reid because he wants to put forward your flawed agenda which the American people are rejecting in droves. If you don't believe that Reid himself would not jump all over a Republican who made what some also consider to be a true but racially controversial statement, here is how Reid reacted:
Washington, DC — The following is a statement by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on William Bennett’s recent comments:
Yesterday, on his radio call-in show, former Reagan Secretary of Education, William Bennett made the following comment, “… you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down.”
“I am appalled by Mr. Bennett’s remarks and call on him to issue an immediate apology not only to African Americans but to the nation. At a time when so many Americans are struggling to recover from two devastating Hurricanes, now is the time to help one another, not feed the fires of racism. America can do better. The Republican Party has recently taken great pains to reach out to the African American community, and I hope that they will be swift in condemning Mr. Bennett’s comments as nothing short of callous and ignorant. They are reminiscent of a time our nation is still struggling to overcome.
Again, I call on him to issue an immediate apology to the nation for his insensitive remarks.”
So let's get to the point.
1- Reid's comments were racist.
2- there are IMO no degrees of "acceptable" racism as you argue.
3- you only defend Reid because he puts forth your flawed agenda.
4- Reid may want heed his own advice.