Harry Reid Race

Forget About Harry Reid, What's up with Bill Clinton?

Avis Jones-DeWeever | Posted 05.25.2011

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Avis Jones-DeWeever

Let's call a spade a spade. Our friend, Bill Clinton, has a race problem. Am I saying he's a racist? No. But he has repeatedly proven that he has no qualms appealing to racial divisions for political gain.

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Harry Reid: Where the Senate Majority Leader Went Wrong

Hasan Kwame Jeffries | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Reid's use of "Negro" is far less troubling than his other remarks. His reference to the political benefits of Obama's "light-skinned" appearance is particularly problematic.

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Harry Reid Was Right

Sam Fulwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Fulwood

Imagine how much better informed Americans might have been if the pundits explained how Reid's words actually reflected this nation's fixation on making any deviation from whiteness as abnormal, deviant or inferior.

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Harry Reid Admits He Was Source On His Own Comments About Obama

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Could Harry Reid himself be the source for the explosive anecdote about his racially charged comments -- ones that have created the biggest mess of hi...

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Harry Reid Was (Mostly) Right... Until Now

Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D.

Voters didn't throw some disembodied, decontextualized essence of blackness on the table in deciding whether or not to vote for Barack Obama. His racial identity was one part of a complex mix of considerations.

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Harry Reid's Views on Race

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

It kinda makes you wonder if Reid would have told Illinois Democratic leaders back in 2004 not to back Obama for Senate because he was supposedly "unelectable."

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