Saturday, January 09, 2010
I understand Harry Reid thinks it's good that Obama has light skin and no discernible "Negro dialect." Here's the Instapundit round-up.
There's one thing that's confusing to me though: Whom did he insult?
The short versions of the story make it sound like Reid personally thought it was a good thing to be lighter skinned and speak with no accent. But the longer form stories seem to imply that what he was really saying is that these were essential qualities for the first African-American president.
The distinction is not unimportant. It's the difference between Harry Reid being a racist bigot, which is run of the mill for senior Democrats, or Harry Reid thinking the American people are racist bigots who wouldn't have elected "a real black man" (scare quotes, not a citation).
I see that Reid has offered an Obama an apology and Obama has accepted.
But maybe Reid actually owes the American people an apology.
If he thinks that little of us, it makes you wonder how sincere his efforts are to bring health care to all us unwashed bigots.
posted by gbarto at 3:22 PM
 
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