Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, already facing tanking poll numbers in his home state of Nevada, decided to make this remark retroactively during the 2008 presidential campaign:
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... in 2008 he said he thought that Barack Obama could win the presidency because he was "light-skinned" and did not use a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
Source: USA Today
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Oh, how progressive of you Mr. Reid, who, coincidentally, is somehow a Mormon? That one makes sense.
Of course, his remarks unmistakably have an air of truth to them. From Huffington Post columnist Earl Ofari:
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Senate Majority leader Harry Reid apologized profusely for his unguarded quip that Obama's light skin and non-Negro dialect stood him well with him and by implication other whites. President Obama graciously accepted his apology and applauded him as a supporter and friend. But the embattled leader spoke the awful truth that millions did give Obama a racial pass. The pass did not win the White House for him; money, timing, a skillful campaign, and most importantly Bush blunders and GOP disgrace ultimately tipped the White House his way. But Obama's racial pass made a difference, maybe a crucial difference.
Source: The Huffington Post
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Thoughts?