Ronnie says Negro! No one cares!

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments,"

Thank you for apologizing Senator Reid.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Here's an idea. Why don't you quit being a disingenuous fucktard?

Like it or not, it's pretty well understood that there are a lot of things that contribute to the electability of a candidate including, height, weight, looks, gender, race, etc. To pretend to be offended by somebody commenting on this is decided fucktardery.

Welcome to USMB, *****!

You are wrong manifold, I am genuinely offended by Reid's callous comments about me and the rest of voting america

Either I'm wrong or you're full of shit.

Gee, I wonder which is the faster horse in this race?

go read my posts and my thread manifold, im not full of shit or trying to mess with people on this one (i know i mess around all the time but im serious on this topic)

And I'm glad Reid Apologized, now I can move on and ***** about other stuff related to politics.

 

[Ravi]

Reid said: "I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments," Reid said in a statement released after the excerpts were first reported on the Web site of The Atlantic.

That sounds like an apology directed at the American voter as well.

But here's the other thing. Were Reid's comments made privately or publicly? Outrage over something said privately - something that is also rather true strikes me as faux.

Interesting. I somehow doubt this will smooth the ruffled feathers of Jarhead and Pilgrim.

I wish he hadn't apologized. I don't think he said anything that needed an apology and these things just serve to make people look overly sensitive.

I missed it--what did Reid say?? Where is the link??

Wait--no youtube. I lack speakers/headphones at the moment.

Click on the underlined "reid said" above.

 

[manifold]

Nope, no one did.

You obviously haven't met manifold.

Hi, I'm manifold. How do you do?

You don't count.

I do count. It says so right at the top of my screen.

 

[Ravi]

You obviously haven't met manifold.

Hi, I'm manifold. How do you do?

You don't count.

I do count. It says so right at the top of my screen.

They're talking about the voices in your head, doofus. Not YOUR voice.

 

[amrchaos]

Interesting. I somehow doubt this will smooth the ruffled feathers of Jarhead and Pilgrim.

I wish he hadn't apologized. I don't think he said anything that needed an apology and these things just serve to make people look overly sensitive.

I missed it--what did Reid say?? Where is the link??

Wait--no youtube. I lack speakers/headphones at the moment.

Click on the underlined "reid said" above.

I read it.

So Reid called Obama a light skinned Negro that do not speak the Negro dialect??

Hold it!! What is the "Negro dialect"?? Can someone give me an example of it??

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

You obviously haven't met manifold.

Hi, I'm manifold. How do you do?

You don't count.

I do count. It says so right at the top of my screen.

i'll join in the derailment now that Reid admited that he was wrong in the way i've been griping about all day

 

[Ravi]

I missed it--what did Reid say?? Where is the link??

Wait--no youtube. I lack speakers/headphones at the moment.

Click on the underlined "reid said" above.

I read it.

So Reid called Obama a light skinned Negro that do not speak the Negro dialect??

Hold it!! What is the "Negro dialect"?? Can someone give me an example of it??

Southern dialect on steroids.

 

[amrchaos]

Click on the underlined "reid said" above.

I read it.

So Reid called Obama a light skinned Negro that do not speak the Negro dialect??

Hold it!! What is the "Negro dialect"?? Can someone give me an example of it??

Southern dialect on steroids.

Why is that surprising to Reid?

Obama is from Hawaii/Illinois/Indonesia/Nigeria Why would he have a Southern Accent?

 

[Ravi]

I read it.

So Reid called Obama a light skinned Negro that do not speak the Negro dialect??

Hold it!! What is the "Negro dialect"?? Can someone give me an example of it??

Southern dialect on steroids.

Why is that surprising to Reid?

Obama is from Hawaii/Illinois/Indonesia/Nigeria Why would he have a Southern Accent?

I don't think it was surprising to him.

 

[manifold]

What is the "Negro dialect"?? Can someone give me an example of it??

Fo shizzle

 

[amrchaos]

What is the "Negro dialect"?? Can someone give me an example of it??

Fo shizzle

I am a Southerner.

"Fo shizzle" is not Southern. Now, what does it mean?

 

[Coyote]

All Asians do not look alike either, not even close, OMG.... where have you BEEN?????

Of course they don't, but they do to many people not raised in that group. Likewise there are Asians who have a difficult time telling white people's faces apart. Within a culture you learn to recognize different sets of traits from early childhood - to distinquish one person from another.

Actually, you are only partially accurate.
Unlike black and asian, the white race has a mulitude of natural hair colors.
How many natural blond african americans do you know?
How many blond asians do you know?
How many naturally red headed asians do you know?

It is what it is. Nothing wrong with it. It is simply the way it is. However, in an effort to be racially sensitive, we do not articulate it....but it is what it is.

There have been some studies on this. For example studies have shown that individuals are better able to recognise the faces of people from their own race than the faces of people from other races. In one study they generated a continuum of images by morphing an East Asian parent face with a Caucasian parent face. East Asian and Caucasian participants judged whether the morph faces were physically identical to, or different from, their parent faces. The results showed that East Asian participants were better able to discriminate East Asian faces, whereas Caucasian participants were better able to discriminate Caucasian faces and that this "own-race" advantage occurs early in infancy when the baby is learning how to recognize faces. Also (I think-I can't recall what I read exactly) certain features become hard wired for identification. White people put a lot of emphasis on hair and eye color. Asians have the same hair and eye color but focus on teeth - crooked, gaps, etc. - to them each Asian is radically different while to whites, they look the same.

 

[Yurt]

As I pointed out earlier, it's mildly amusing if it's done by some yutz on youtube. When it's done by the RNC and defended by repubs, then it's an endemic problem...and it's one of the reasons the RNC is the party of old white men.

^hypocrisy^

 

[Zona]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFAXnCFk5IE

How do you spell hypocrite? R e p u b l i c a n

Curious...when did Ronnie imply that the darker your skin, the less viable candidate you would be for President of the United States?

If he did say that, he would have been correct. Ask any black person in America.

 

[manifold]

I swear nothing exposes the hypocrisy of partisan hacks more than these stupid, meaningless episodes of political incorrectness. Of course this was neither racist nor any big deal, and only offensive to hyper-sensitive twats. But but but....

I do so enjoy seeing the same people who lost their shit over Obama being called a boy doing a complete 180 on this one.

And vice-versa.

 

[manifold]

You know who you are.

 

[maineman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFAXnCFk5IE

How do you spell hypocrite? R e p u b l i c a n

Curious...when did Ronnie imply that the darker your skin, the less viable candidate you would be for President of the United States?

If he did say that, he would have been correct. Ask any black person in America.

precisely

 

[Sinatra]

I swear nothing exposes the hypocrisy of partisan hacks more than these stupid, meaningless episodes of political incorrectness. Of course this was neither racist nor any big deal, and only offensive to hyper-sensitive twats. But but but....

I do so enjoy seeing the same people who lost their shit over Obama being called a boy doing a complete 180 on this one.

And vice-versa.

 

[oreo]

In case you born yesterday thumb-suckers don't know.

Out of respect--back in the late 1970'--& early 1980's the only way to address a black person was to refer to them as Negro's.

The term African American did not exist during the Reagan years. The term African American didn't start until the 1990's.