I strongly agree that America needs to bring about talks and discussions about race, especially the hypocrisy of some words used by a certain sector but is off limits to another. We as Americans need to talk about this to bring this topic out and have educated discussion and emotions understood.

Which was offensive? Trent Lott saying (even if he didn’t really mean it) at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday that the country would be better off today if it had elected Thurmond president in 1948, when he was the nation’s leading segregationist, spewing forth all kinds of hatred (and doing so while he was fathering a child with a Negro household servant)? Or Harry Reid’s comments, which were about Obama’s electability and made in the context of Reid actively encouraging and supporting Obama’s candidacy? Some of those now acting so outraged at Reid’s reference to “light-skinned Negro” are some of the same folks who repeatedly called Obama a “Halfrican” during the campaign. When Trent Lott messed up, Dems took advantage, to be sure. But they aren’t the ones who forced him to resign as Majority Leader. Credit the Bushies for that. They wanted their man, Bill Frist, in that job and used the controversy as an excuse to make it happen.