Reply #24: President Obama IS a light-skinned Negro!

[ezdidit]

And he does inflect his oratory with a Southern accent from time to time, when he wants to sound like an ordinary plain-spoken person. It's a mannerism that he doesn't need to use; people are going to think he's smart and may be arrogant, too, no matter how he says whatever he says. I want my Presdient to be smarter than me!

And, public use of the term, "Negro," is validated by a question on the 2010 census when it asks most recipients, "Are you Black, African American or Negro?"

The problem is that Reid's comment insulted a good many people who are genuinely color blind and post-racial. The problem for me is that Reid openly made a political distinction and a calculation that insults me, a White male who struggled and overcame - within a segregated environment - to appreciate the ideas and the feelings of my fellow human beings regardless of race or color, creed or national origin.

But maybe Reid's just realistic, and that can hurt self-deluded nitwits and hypocritical gasbags at all strata of society - particularly parties out of power.