GOP Chairman Michael Steele and other Republicans on Sunday accused Democrats of a double standard, saying they accepted Sen. Harry Reid’s apology for racial comments about President Obama, but they sould have demanded that the Nevada Senator step down.
The hubbub stems from the book, "Game Change," in which Time Magazine's Mark Halperin and New York magazine's John Heilemann write that Reid “believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,' as he later put it privately."
Speaking on two talk shows, Steele compared Reid's comment to the controversy that led Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to step down from that post in 2002. At a 100th birthday celebration for Strom Thurmond, Lott lauded Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential campaign. Lott apologized but still was forced out as leader.
"There is this standard where the Democrats feel that they can say these things and they can apologize when it comes from the mouths of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it's racism," said Steele, who is black. "It's either racist or it's not. And it's inappropriate, absolutely."
So, is there a double standard? Yes, there is a double standard. But this isn’t an issue that’s as black and white as “it’s either racist or it’s not.”
More: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/race/2010/01/sen-harry-reid-and-the-double-standard-regarding-race-.html
4 comments:
Good job Mr. Steele for calling these people out. You get an A for your representation of the Republican party.
Just more hypocricy from the left. Nothing will be done, just like when stretch pelosi accused the CIA of lying to congress. All we can do at this point is hope the country doesn't collapse before November.
Only goes to say that racism is only a tool of the dumbocrat party. It does not mean they are themselves racist.
Double standard? Trent Lott praised someone who stood for segragation and overt racism. Reid simply stated a truth that has been backed up by sociological studies in the US; darker skinned black people are often considered less intelligent, less attractive, and more aggressive than lighter skinned blacks.
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