a final word on senator harry reid
It’s good that Reid apologized, but at the same time you can’t really apologize for being the sort of person who’d be inclined to use the phrase “negro dialect” and it’s more the idea of Reid being that kind of person that’s creepy here than anything else. Doesn’t seem likely to help Reid’s already troubled re-election campaign.
Matthew Yglesias in Think Progress
Well said. I firmly believe that a person’s words speak out of the heart - particularly if those words are uttered when he or she thinks no one is listening. As I wrote in my initial post on this matter, people I know don’t say the things that Senator Reid said. Further, no one I know would be delusional enough to think that commenting on skin color and a lack of “negro” speak could somehow be deemed a compliment.
The disgust that many of us feel about this situation has less to do with the fact that Harry Reid is from a different generation and used an outdated term - “negro” - and more to do with the fact that it would occur to him to mention it at all.
- tdc
*MORE COMMENTARY - Mark Steyn offers his thoughts (via The Corner at NRO)
There is nothing older than the idea that this is new.
