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The trouble with Harry is lack of sensitivity, not racism

January 12, 2010

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's mutterings in 2008 that Barack Obama was "light skinned" and had no "negro dialect" reflect a stunning insensitivity -- but not enough to justify the Republican calls for his re-election. Reid was offering his analysis of voter attitudes; by contrast, former Majority Leader Trent Lott, who praised Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign, was endorsing a segregationist platform. (Full article: 281 words)

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