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Is Senator Harry Reid a racist?

By John Telford, Author of A Life on the RUN – Seeking and Safeguarding Social Justice Black (and many white) reactionaries are still calling Nevada senator Harry Reid a racist for stating a probable truth—that many whites (and some blacks) were swayed to vote for President Obama because he’s...

February 23rd, 2010 | Harry Reid, Politics | Read More

Forget about Harry Reid, what up with Bill Clinton?

Watch: Tell-all book : CTV News Channel: Avis Jones-Deweever Let’s call a spade a spade. Our friend, Bill Clinton, has a race problem. I know all the buzz right now is about Harry Reid and the fact that the good Senator had the audacity to state the obvious. But to me, the much more offensive...

January 13th, 2010 | Harry Reid, Politics | Read More

Harry Reid was (mostly) right… Until now

So, another political heavyweight – this time Nevada senator and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – runs aground on the shoals of race. Here’s the money quote from the recently released book on the 2008 presidential campaign by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and New York Magazine’s...

January 11th, 2010 | Harry Reid | Read More

Harry Reid was right

Lost in all the strum und drang following Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) comments about Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential chances is a simple fact: He got it right. To quickly sum up: Game Change, a new, gossipy book about the historic presidential campaign, quoted Reid saying in a private...

January 11th, 2010 | Harry Reid | Read More

Where Harry Reid went wrong

Over the weekend, another white guy stuck his foot in his mouth. This time, it was Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who during the past presidential election said that Barack Obama’s “light-skinned” appearance and ability to speak “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one” would bolster...

January 11th, 2010 | Harry Reid | Read More