Hey Harry, Exactly What Does "A Negro Dialect" Sound Like?

I was going to leave this one alone, but the more I thought about it and discussed it with others, the more convinced I am that Harry Reid should - at a minimum - relinquish his leadership position in the Senate, finish out his term, pull out of a re-election bid, and go back to Nevada and crawl back into his racist, bigoted, redneck desert cave and disappear from civilized society. 

But this won't happen because Obama needs Reid in order to jam through the wildly unpopular health care bill that Reid is in charge of dragging through the Senate using any unsavory, corrupted political tactics required to get the job done.  So Obama has exercised political expedience and turned the other cheek for the sake of saving his arrogant political agenda.

Reid's comment reflects incredibly poorly on the people of Nevada who support him and on the Democrats who are standing by tolerant and without rebuke.  Rest assured, if a Republican was caught making the same remark, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have a lynch-mob gathered outside of the offending politician's office demanding his political scalp and I'm sure Obama would be taking a much different public tact.

It's beyond contemptible that Obama has rolled over like this on Reid's remark. To begin with, using the term "negro" harkins back to the 40's and 50's when blacks were "separate but equal." I wouldn't be surprised if Reid secretly thinks there should be separate bathrooms and water fountains in the Senate building for whites and "those colored Congressmen with the funny dialect."

Reid's remark was in direct contrast to the spirit and message of Obama's campaign and election victory, which is that Americans have transcended racism and that our educated, advanced society is blind to skin-color.  Obama is pathetic for not at least censuring Reid over this and I predict there will be a backlash from a fair portion of his black support base. To be quite frank, Reid's language was so patronizingly colloquial and seeded in bigotry that he should do the right thing and resign immediately.