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Originally posted by AllexxisF1
Originally posted by jibeho
Actually most of the complaining is about the flaming double standard that exists within the left. The Undeniable double standard!
So let me get this straight.
Republican racists are peeved off because Reid isn't getting the same share of people being pissed off.
Speaking of double standard, I don't remember you making a thread about the considerable racist posters during the tea bagger idiot parades.
Yet you find time to lambast a comment by a Democrat spoken off the record two years ago.
That's the text book definition of a double standard.
Thanks for playing the fake outrage of the week from the RNC.
Originally posted by jibeho
Trent Lott lost his leadership position for saying far less back in 2002. Obama even called for his resignation back in his Senate days. Simply because Lott praised the career of a fellow ELECTED Congressman.
[edit on 11-1-2010 by jibeho]
The comment in question was delivered one week ago during a 100th birthday party for the retiring Thurmond -- a party that often resembled a roast of the South Carolina Republican.
Lott noted that in Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign, whose centerpiece was opposition to integration, Mississippi was one of four Thurmond carried.
"We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either," Lott said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized Saturday following reports he had privately described then-candidate Barack Obama during the presidential campaign as a black candidate who could be successful thanks in part to his “light-skinned” appearance and speaking patterns "with no Negro dialect
Trent Lott lost his leadership position for saying far less
Originally posted by maybereal11
Originally posted by jibeho
Trent Lott lost his leadership position for saying far less back in 2002. Obama even called for his resignation back in his Senate days. Simply because Lott praised the career of a fellow ELECTED Congressman.
[edit on 11-1-2010 by jibeho]
Okay...Trent Lott said far less? Let's take a look...
The comment in question was delivered one week ago during a 100th birthday party for the retiring Thurmond -- a party that often resembled a roast of the South Carolina Republican.
Lott noted that in Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign, whose centerpiece was opposition to integration, Mississippi was one of four Thurmond carried.
"We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either," Lott said.
archives.cnn.com...
Hmmm.
Okay Lott said that integrating the south was a mistake and if the rest of the country had kept segregation, you know...not letting blacks drink from the same water fountain etc, the USA "wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years"
and Harry Reid said...
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by adifferentbreed
Actually that is a highly racist comment and very offensive to Native Americans.
And he should be flamed for it.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Interesting that what Lott said tuned out to be incorrect. Why? Because a democrat (Reid) was still saying racist things in the 21st century even though the country did not follow the path outlined years earlier by Thurmond and mentioned by Lott ...
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by adifferentbreed
Actually that is a highly racist comment and very offensive to Native Americans.
And he should be flamed for it.
Deflection attempt.
The thread is about Reid, not Steele.
Try to stay on topic, or start your own thread.
[edit on 1/11/2010 by centurion1211]
Originally posted by centurion1211
the whole statement he made boils down to "the average black person is not electable unless they have light skin and talk like an educated white person". Second and third strikes against Reid.
[edit on 1/11/2010 by centurion1211]
A new study suggests that people's political views may affect how they perceive President Obama's skin tone, with liberals tending to "lighten" his skin and conservatives tending to "darken" it.
"Our beliefs, you know, in this case our political beliefs, can really have pretty profound effects on how we see the world," says Eugene Caruso, a researcher at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. "Our data suggest that people's beliefs affect how light or dark they perceive someone to be."
Originally posted by centurion1211
Come on. Everyone knows that blacks think the word "negro" is a derogatory term -
Originally posted by Wyn Hawks
Originally posted by centurion1211
Come on. Everyone knows that blacks think the word "negro" is a derogatory term -
...martin luther king jr had no problem with the word negro... see for yourself in his famous I Have A Dream speech (linked below) in which he used the word negro over a dozen times...
www.usconstitution.net...
...but surely your comment was posted in jest and not out of ignorance or prejudice or a misguided sense of superiority which makes you believe that you possess the power to know what everyone else knows...
...in response to the op: why should there be an outrage because a politician said something stupid?... unless you're still very young and naive, you should be used to it by now, especially after 8years of the idiot dubya...