Playing race-card 'gotcha'

[sunspotbaby]

interesting. I don't understand it, but i'm colorless. (at lease until March)

The turning point came when Stokely Carmichael coined the phrase black power at a 1966 rally in Mississippi. Until then, Negro was how most black Americans described themselves. But in Carmichael's speeches and in his landmark 1967 book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, he persuasively argued that the term implied black inferiority.

How old was Harry Reid when the word Negro became taboo? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine

 

[bluecat]

Human seems to fit all.

 

[scooterbug44]

What Harry Reid said wasn't the problem - HOW he said it was.

Negro? WTF?!?

 

[Beauty hunter]

I hate to break up the party (Republican/Democratic) debate, but to applaud or disparage an entire group is like saying because one person or more in a group is prejudiced that all the people in that group are prejudiced. Each individual has to be gauged by his/her individual words/actions. The man in question in this debate obviously said something stupid and inflammatory. This does not necessarily mean everyone in his party agrees with him. It would be the same thing as one individual in one ethnic group blaming another entire ethnic group for a negative comment from one individual in that group. What does this hamster wheel debate accomplish? If there is a purpose, then please say what it is. If the point is to just get things out in the open and air grievances I can understand that, but I don't understand complaining without looking for a SOUND SOLUTION. If you just like to argue please excuse me for interrupting. Carry on...

 

[Beach Runner]

What Harry Reid said wasn't the problem - HOW he said it was.

Negro? WTF?!?

Plus he said (but didn't actually use these words) that Obama doesn't speak Ebonics, as verbalized by Tony Harris, an African-American anchor on CNN, yesterday.

 

[Teresa]

IMO, Reids words are just not even close to being important enough to warrant such publicity.

Reid's words were a private statement that ended up published in a book. too bad they had to be aired publicly. what he (or anyone) says privately is really not my concern. His statement was not said in a derogatory manner, even though it can be taken that way.

Game Change is a political gossip book (also referred to as poli-porn) filled with quotes and stories by unnamed sources. it may be a really interesting book to read. from what I understand it is full of personal statements and stories about candidates and politicians. read it and enjoy it, but I would not take a single word of it seriously. the stories are just stories - and they are the same old stories that have taken place in the USA since George Washington was elected president. only now we get to really see inside the private lives of politicians and their wives and families - and we get to read all about the details and watch the story unfold as named and unnamed "witnesses and friends" tell it to a reporter.

to anyone who is in a frenzy over Reid or anything else in the book, I say this: Get a Life.

 

[scooterbug44]

I think it's important in that it says a lot about the reality of race in this country ............ but it should be a blip and comedy fodder, not a multi-day dead horse beating.

 

[Matt J]

I think it's important in that it says a lot about the reality of race in this country ............ but it should be a blip and comedy fodder, not a multi-day dead horse beating.

Why not? It's absolutely pointless and distracts the masses from wars, health care, financial crisis, and various other worth while issues.

 

[futurebeachbum]

Why not? It's absolutely pointless and distracts the masses from wars, health care, financial crisis, and various other worth while issues.

Sure makes me long for the days when political service was just that; a service to the nation.

I'd like to see statesmanship, compromise and an interest in the greater good of the republic be the norm instead of lobbyists, media attention and big $ any way you can get them.

 

[30ashopper]

IMO, Reids words are just not even close to being important enough to warrant such publicity.

Why not? It's absolutely pointless and distracts the masses from wars, health care, financial crisis, and various other worth while issues.

Exactly. Which is why we should all go back to parsing what Sarah Palin is saying. now that, is real news.