on Chairman Steele’s morally and tactically challenged call for Harry Reid’s resignation: “Black man, please.”
UPDATE: Ta-Nehisi Coates plays off of the same phrase, and goes to great lengths to draw the distinction between what Reid said and what Trent Lott said. But with Lott, the hue and cry came from the GOP, and with Reid it comes from . . . the GOP. The party of Lincoln. Remember?
My concern isn’t so much Trent Lott or Harry Reid, but the Vice President of the United States, who once found it remarkable that a black politician would be “clean,” and “articulate.”
Using “Negro” as a synonym for “racially black” is not the same thing as implying that there is something unclean about most black people, or about most black politicians. Not by a long shot.
Joe Biden is the one who crossed the line in question.
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“Joe Biden is the one who crossed the line in question.”
Indeed he did…
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