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Alan from NJ Wrote: Jan 12, 2010 4:48 PM
People that are dark or light have been wonderful or terrible and race has nothing to do with it. We judge by what we see, but there is a big world out there. I have met magnificent people of every shade, that I would trust with my life. There is a characteristic dialect that enables me to recognize a canadian, but I am not prepared to mock them by using it. Democrats have not helped, but have contributed to the needy state of minorities. Their giving makes things worse. Any minority member, that has been able to get out of poverty by honest means has done so because they have self-respect. Accepting gifts without being able to reciprocate make most people feel bad about themselves. Should we lie and say the gift is a right? Or should...

For those of you who may have been off the grid over the weekend the big news was an item in a new book by Mullpal Mark Halperin and John Heilemann titled "Game Change" in which Majority Leader Harry Reid was quoted as using inappropriate language when describing then-Senator Barack Obama.

According to the reporting:

Reid said Obama could fare well nationally as an African-American candidate because he was "light-skinned" and didn't speak with a "Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one."

Ok. The whole double standard thing was duly marinated over the weekend - if this had...

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