But seriously, folks.
In cased you missed it, Harry Reid (old white dude, NV) said something "racially insensitive" once, and now it's a big deal. Apparently Reid referred to Obama as a "light-skinned" African American with "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one," which was certainly a stupid-ass thing to say.
Here we are, in 2010 [although I guess the comments were made in '08 or '09], and still old white dudes say things that minority people find offensive. Because, even though lots of them are lovely people, they are OLD and out of touch. Dear Reader, you know this, you've met old people. Perhaps you are even related to some of them! It really shouldn't be surprising that old people say rude things.
The other side of this, though, is the "OMG, Trent Lott and Don Imus lost their jobs for saying stupid stuff! Why shouldn't Harry Reid?" I would submit to you that hey, guess what, these are different situations. Don Imus said something that was not just "accidentally" offensive, but had a good bit of not nice-ness behind it. Trent Lott? Well, Trent Lott said something nice about someone at the guy's birthday party, and people got pissed. Frankly, I don't think he should have lost his job over it. I mean, Trent Lott voted for Strom Thurmond for President. If we're not willing to kick people out of office for being obviously racist like that, then we shouldn't be surprised that they are proud of the way they are. I mean, really people. Come on.
UGH. Okay, are we done now?
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