Lets assume he used “negro”.
He still makes the distinction that light skin is better.
Thats the racist thing.
What do you imagine the Democrats were up to then?
It is not “racist” to note the obvious fact that Obama is light-skinned and that this probably helped him in the election. Reid is a scumbag but he shouldn’t resign over this. Down the road, some conservatives are going to regret their eagerness to become PC thought police in this case.
I disagree. It’s not racist to say talk about other people’s reactions. He didn’t endorse them, he was stating what is a reality, at least among some voters.
Reid made a far more offensive statement when he said the war in Iraq “is lost”, while American soldiers were fighting and dying in the field. That was vile and inexcusable, and he should have resigned over it, but it didn’t get a tenth the controversey as this relatively trival comment.
And the assertion that he can turn the “dialect” on and off as it suits him - clearly a criticism of his “authentic blackness”. If he had wanted to illustrate what a phony Øbozo is he could have easily done so without involving race.
If I were a GOP Senator, I would make the following remark, just in passing:
Although the 2010 election in November seems to be going now in our favor, we are hoping some dark-skinned candidates will enter for the Dems, to give us further advantage.