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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
I doubt that. Not to mention, the example being bandied around about Trent Lott is like comparing apples and oranges. Sorry, wishing that Strom Thurmond had won the race for president, a segregationist who would have made sure that the civil rights movement had never taken place, is not the same as assessing the likelihood that a light-skinned black man would be able to win an election for president.
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I agree with this completely, and it seems odd to me that anyone even tries to make the case that the situations are similar.
You think the assumption is that people's political memories are so short that they won't remember what Lott actually said?
I think that there is a frequently a political/media double standard is assessing people's (D vs.R) motives when they say/do something racially questionable (but not as overt as Lott's), but Reid's comment isn't the one to try to exploit for this point.
And hadn't discussion of Biden's basically saying the same thing during the campaign already exhausted all the points that can be made about the content of the comment minus the specific use of the word "Negro" in Negro Dialect.
Random Question: for a while, people talked about "Ebonics," sometimes when they legitimately meant African American Vernacular English which at one point was referred to a Black English or Black Vernacular English. Was there a time when people referred to BVE or AAVE as "Negro Dialect"? Was Reid just lapsing into the terminology in vogue when he was in college for the very specific thing he meant: Obama's use of consistent use of Standard English in contrast with AAVE? Someone using "Negro" in 2009 IS weird and might be suspect, depending on the speaker, and I wonder why Reid used it.
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